Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

When those NGOs receive funding they usually know how to use the funds very efficiently and are able to grow. Those initial fundings rarely come from online donations, most are community-based initiatives, companies, and local government incentives. As a fast-growing developing country, this problem it’s quite real.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 29, 2011

an international public media initiative designed to educate and connect people worldwide regarding the issues confronting women and girls. ITVS) and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB). TechSoup, ITVS, and American Public Media. Please take a few minutes to complete the NGO Media and Technology Survey.

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 17, 2011

Some of the tax-exempts focus on serving members, and some focus on serving a broad public mission. This is a big deal because the federal government confers some nice benefits on the ones with a public mission. I actually use public charity a lot, and some people abbreviate to just charity. Not-for-profit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2011

In late 2011, Funder’s Guide to Networks will synthesize the knowledge and publish a print publication for the broader field of philanthropy. Governance and managing across difference in power and capacity in network participants / members. How and when to catalyze networks? When don’t networks work?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

Many of you know that I have had the honor of working with IIE on some amazing Networked NGO and social media skills capacity building and train the trainer projects in the Middle East over the last 2-3 years. Department of State, Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, Office of the Middle Eastern Partnership Initiative (MEPI) and managed by IIE.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 16, 2013

According to our 2012 NGO Global Cloud Survey , collaboration is already one of the top ten current uses for cloud-based software among charities. We work together in grant-funded projects, with teams of volunteers, with public agencies, with other nonprofits. I used it to project manage our recent global NGO cloud survey.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

A copyright exception allows specialist organizations (generally a government agency or disability NGO or library) to make an accessible version of a published book without having to get permission from the author or publisher. It includes pressuring national governments to enforce existing accessibility laws.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 3, 2011

Check back throughout the month for blog posts, webinars, and dispatches from around the world on cloud computing for nonprofits, NGOs, and public libraries. We discussed cloud adoption in Brazil's NGO sector with Valter Cegal of TechSoup Brasil. ATN is an NGO association of over 2,000 telecenters.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 8, 2010

Counterproposals have been made, governments have been engaging with rights holders, consumers and NGOs (or not!) Government delegation, as a next step possibility. has been very negative on a treaty in the past: their public statements have been softening lately. Joint Recommendation Proposal (US-JR).

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 14, 2011

Check back throughout the month for blog posts, webinars, and dispatches from around the world on cloud computing for nonprofits, NGOs, and public libraries. NASSCOM Foundation's Survey of NGO Cloud Readiness. Only a handful of the bigger and established NGOs have adopted cloud technologies.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 10, 2011

Our new and long-term Martus partners crossed a milestone and backed up to our public servers over 200,000 bulletins, each of which captures crucial, sensitive information about incidents from a victim’s story or from a field investigation. All HRP’s publications are available online. and the European Union.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 6, 2016

By far the majority of the 90,000 public, private, and independent foundations in the U.S. public charity — a process known as equivalency determination. The process for clearing an NGO to receive a grant is much faster and much less expensive than it used to be — starting at $250 per equivalency determination.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2011

It’s a truism confirmed by the Arab Spring that Facebook, Twitter and YouTube are among the key new public spaces of activism. And the circumstances under which user data is provided to governments, or human rights information and accounts are taken down from services are not always transparent.

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

The 36th Annual Nonprofit Organizations Institute will feature nationally recognized experts from private foundations, public charities, law, finance, and government discussing the latest tax, legislative and governance issues affecting nonprofit organizations. 15th Annual Nonprofit Governance Symposium. Jan 24 - 25.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

Yet the costs and challenges of complying with the regulations that govern cross-border grantmaking have been a barrier to U.S. public charity. Global giving appeals to grantmakers of all sizes and types, from family foundations with enduring legacies to new foundations exploring novel pathways of giving. On March 18, 2013, NGOsource.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 9, 2018

The 2018 Edelman Trust Barometer data are in, and while we are living through a multi-year decline in public trust, the NGO sector remains the leader in what trust we have left in four major sectors. If NGOs are the kings and queens of trust, it’s time to double-down on the investment in content. Source: Edelman.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 4, 2010

A recent publication titled Global Philanthropy , from the Mercator Fund , a project of the Network of European Foundations, helps bring the variable global philanthropic landscape to light. Four themes emerge from the book, which provides an overview of the philanthropic sectors in countries across the world: 1.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

The Locavore app offers government and NGO info on which food items are in season in your locale. Here are a few more green app top picks from sundry publications: Treehugger's 15 Green Apps For Your New Apple iPad. Carticipate. is a social media app with a very clever name to connect you with people who want to carpool.

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Tech Soup

MAY 4, 2011

" While there are still contradictions in terms of the unpredictable nature of crises and a delay in data, his project attempts to test out these ideas in different "labs" around the world by coalescing data from public and private sources, with the first one starting in Uganda shortly. relevant to the audience you are serving.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Seattle, Washington: Governance Responsibilities for Nonprofit Boards. Boston, Massachusetts: TNB Roundtable: How Nonprofits Can Find and Use Public Data Effectively. Peterborough, Ontario: Domains, Branding, and Identity — NGO,CA,ORG, and more. Governance Matters: Create a More Powerful Board Through Policy Governance.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

This post originally appeared on the Netsquared blog and was authored by Bari Samad, an NGO domain expert for NetSquared. Available to the general public at www.7billionactions.org/data Last week, the world’s population reached a staggering 7 billion people. billion by mid-century.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

A blockchain is a decentralized, distributed and public digital ledger that is used to record transactions across many computers so that the record cannot be altered retroactively without the alteration of all subsequent blocks and the collusion of the network. Cryptocurrencies to Watch: Gift Coin , Mission Coin , NGO Coin , Wishcoin.

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Tech Soup

JULY 1, 2014

Want to know more about how one Philadelphia-based NGO was able to use their TechSoup donation to help homeless teens develop valuable life skills? As part of the prize notification, the winning individual or group will be asked to sign an affidavit of eligibility, a liability release and a publicity release (where legal).

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 2, 2006

After a few years of designing and producing educational radio programs in Africa, I decided to go for a Masters in public health-my favorite content area. Also by nature, people in the public health field tend to be good and generous people. There is a lot of room in public health for creativity. You won't get rich.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

Much commentary and critiques about the semi-public ballotting process. Someone tagged the NGO-in-a-Box with nptech just today. There is much much commentary and grieving taking place online as well as a memorial in SecondLife , and an article in Wikipedia. Trish Perkins offers up a list "cool free tech tools."

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Tech Soup

MARCH 24, 2014

We’ve had multiple celebrations of the web in recent years: the 20 th anniversary of the first public web page in 2011 , another 20 th anniversary webpage anniversary in 2013 , and this month, the 25 th anniversary of the idea of the web. People are comparing this venture to Google’s Project Loon. The World Wide Web Turns 25.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

My goal was to have a conversation with the folks in the room – who represented both traditional nonprofit institutions, government agencies, and free agents – and answer the question, “ I’ve found my free agent now what? &#. Fortunately, that’s not true for every agency Mark has collaborated with.

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Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

It is hugely important that we get governments and multi-nationals to change the way they treat the planet, but that doesn’t mean we cannot do anything to show we care. Although switching to public transport wouldn’t reduce it to zero, it would greatly reduce your impact. It’s not just about institutional change.

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Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

It is hugely important that we get governments and multi-nationals to change the way they treat the planet, but that doesn’t mean we cannot do anything to show we care. Although switching to public transport wouldn’t reduce it to zero, it would greatly reduce your impact. It’s not just about institutional change.

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Tech Soup

MAY 24, 2011

It is being used and analyzed by the media, the private sector, governments, and civil society organizations to inform their decisions. And so are the ways in which governments, civil society. the private sector to benefit the public using the data analysis. NGO representatives, parliamentarians, journalists, and.

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