ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 24, 2012

This post is a continuation of Seeds for a Future Part 1: Getting your NGO off the ground. When starting a nongovernmental organization (NGO) in a community other than your own, it is important to recognize that there are cultural barriers (try to call these "opportunities") to consider. Like this article? Get another!

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

The end of the Guatemalan Civil War resulted in a flood of non-governmental organization (NGO) programs spreading across the country in the hope of helping desperately poor people gain everything from their human rights, to better health care, food and nutrition, and training in governance. Make sure you know what minimum wage laws provide.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 14, 2011

This is a communique on the current state of cloud adoption in India from Prashant Pandit and Pooja Jayna from TechSoup Global's, NASSCOM Foundation BIGTech Program , which is an NGO committed to building ICT capacity in civil society in India. NASSCOM Foundation's Survey of NGO Cloud Readiness.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 9, 2011

Ushahidi is an NGO project from Kenya that hosts a free online service that collects reports about a stricken area via mobile phone or computer and then maps them so relief efforts can respond. One of the main ones that anchors this work is Ushahidi.

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Tech Soup

MAY 31, 2013

We proudly welcome NGO partners Vietnet-ICT and the Lin Centre in Vietnam, as well as ASEAN Foundation , Kopernik Marketplace , and YCAB Foundation in Indonesia to the TechSoup Global family. Our New NGO Partners in Vietnam. Our New NGO Partners in Indonesia. The technology is shipped directly to the local NGO.

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Tech Soup

JULY 2, 2012

We regard it as a TechSoup green product donation in that it makes it easy to for people to communicate easily regardless of where they are, thus making telework more manageable. SlideRocket. is a web-based service for creating, managing, and sharing online multimedia slideshow presentations. TechSoup’s Telework Team.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 2, 2012

After I finished teaching an intensive Networked NGO workshop for Packard family planning grantees in Delhi, I headed to Bangalore to visit my friend and colleague, Rufina Fernandes where I conducted a social media workshop for staff and teachers and got see a start up education company and its CSR program, close up.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 2, 2008

I'll be facilitating a Birds of a Feather session for Green, Social Change & NPO/NGO bloggers on Friday, July 18th from 10:30-11:45 AM. blogher women blog nonprofit green social change If you've been waiting to sign up, don't delay.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

" Monochrome green code scrolls across his screen, and an unnecessarily large "Transfer Status" window shows stolen data in the process of being transferred. Unless your nonprofit or NGO has specific adversaries or is being spear phished , the hacking you may encounter is probably less sophisticated and less targeted.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 28, 2008

For the past two days I've gotten to spend time at the NetSquared Conference with my Co-Editor of BlogHer's Social Change, Nonprofit and NGO section, and fellow NetSquared blogger , Beth Kanter of Beth's Blog. I'll be teaching a "Nonprofit Blogging 101," and a "Nonprofit Podcasting 101" session. blogging conference Beth Kanter

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 11, 2008

The third episode of Echoing Green's Be Bold Podcast , that I host, is up. I am now interested in pursuing a career with either a nonprofit or NGO abroad, working primarily in the area of education and educational development policy. The questions are: 1. I recently quit from an organization where I worked for the last 11 years.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2013

” The green ugly doll has accompanied me around the world and has been in the hands of many people who work for NGOs and social change. I’m always learning as I help others learn. Here’s a couple of reflections from my “trainer’s notebook.”

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 20, 2007

It is a project of the start-up NGO, Mali Health Organizing Project. Here is the link, if you want to spread the word: [link] Photo of "Woman with Green Door Sikoro" provided by Caitlin Cohen. Mali health NGO Caitlin is part of the International Youth In Volunteerism Summit , a conference for youth activism around the globe.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

Sam explains a bit about cloud computing and disaster recovery basics, and outlines the different types of cloud storage and products designed to help NGOs prepare for disaster recovery. We’d love to know what findings in our 2012 Global NGO Cloud Survey you find most interesting.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 5, 2020

According to the Global NGO Technology Report , 44% of nonprofits, NGOs, and charities worldwide use WordPress.org as their content management system (CMS) for their website ( 7% use Drupal and 3% use Joomla ). Use a top-rated Content Management System (CMS). On Mobile: 8) Use a social sharing app.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2007

But when I realized it would take a long time before a small NGO working in a country, like say, Cambodia, might be able to purchase a small number of them (less than 100) to outfit a school, I was disappointed. DC Metblogger Flickr Photo. Almost exactly two years ago, the One Laptop Per Child launched. Tharum was disappointed too.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 2, 2007

Presenters will include Green L.A. You can learn some blog fundraising tips if you come to the BlogHer Conference in Chicago where I'll be moderating a panel on Friday, July 27th from 2:45-4:00 pm called, Getting It On(line) for a Cause: Part 1 - Raising Money.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Green Technology. According TechSoup’s Global NGO Cloud Survey , cloud storage and back-up is one of the most useful cloud technologies out there. This years’ Nobel Prize for Peace was awarded to the technology oriented Dutch NGO, Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

Social Media, NGOs, and Romania View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. tags: ngo socialmedia ) Next, Iulian Comanescu - Training coordinator for the program is explaining the program. Goal is to provide web presence for most ngos in Romania. It also has events with a goal of being a news agency for NGOS.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 13, 2012

TechSoup Global is also in the process of adding to the body of cloud research with our Global NGO Cloud Survey. We cordially invite nonprofits, NGOs, and libraries everywhere to take our survey, which is available in 21 languages. Find out more on NTEN’s U.S. cloud survey project on their blog.?

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Saint Paul, Minnesota: Skill Extension: Maps (on the Green Line) | Sponsors: Maptime MSP Meetup, CARTO. Peterborough, Ontario: Domains, Branding, and Identity — NGO,CA,ORG, and more. Los Angeles, California: WordPress for Nonprofits — Learn from an Expert! Thursday, February 9, 2017. Friday, February 10, 2017.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 29, 2005

Not many black boring bags at all - colors - pink and green seem to be popular. Nancy White is still willing to host a ngo/npo dinner. I'm at the live blogging tutorial and people are introducing themselves and I've noticed some great computer and hand bags. Here's the flickr stream. Look for Jory.(see Dinner is at 6:00 pm.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 16, 2012

TechSoup Global has conducted our own international NGO cloud survey across 88 countries and the results will be out in the early fall. About 61 percent said reliability of access to their data was also a deciding factor. To put it mildly, this debate is not over yet. I hope you stay tuned for that.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 8, 2007

Caitlin tells it like it is--the nitty gritty of starting up an NGO, and why she believes it is important to help the people you are serving to create the change they want to see, not to create the change for them. The biggest challenge is definitely the fact that an “NGO” in Mali is seen as a “waritigi” (money owner).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2007

The woman wearing the green t-shirt played the role of my daughter. The day before the conference, I spent some time at the Open Institute , the NGO that hosts the KhmerOS (Open Source Software) project. The woman in the pink came up with the initial idea for our skit. I wrote down their names, but ended up loosing the piece of paper.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 29, 2010

East-West Technology, Culture & Food Exchange: Innovation and culture sharing with NGO counterparts in India. East-West Technology, Culture & Food Exchange: Innovation and culture sharing with NGO counterparts in India. Greening Your Technology – [Cottonwood B] (#greentech). Listen First! Who : Speakers: Anna S.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 29, 2010

Before moving to Santa Fe, he was the Director of Aid to Artisans , an international artisan enterprise development NGO. Why should people care about cultural entrepreneurship, when, in the "do-good" world, they could spend their time on social entrepreneurship, or being "green?" That's the difference between the two.

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Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Try a green energy supplier. It’s easy to switch to 100% green energy. You can use a provider that uses 100% green and renewable energy like these listed on MoneySupermarket or, even better, install solar panels on your home. For more tips take a look at the Going Zero Waste blog. However, this is now far from necessary.

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Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Try a green energy supplier. It’s easy to switch to 100% green energy. You can use a provider that uses 100% green and renewable energy like these listed on MoneySupermarket or, even better, install solar panels on your home. For more tips take a look at the Going Zero Waste blog. However, this is now far from necessary.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 4, 2010

For us, that means everything from the events that we do at home, where we have completely green events, to how we live our own lives, the things that we buy, the way that we run our office -- all of these things, to us, are important as we move forward and truly model what it means to create a world that we want to live in.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

all the green is WhatsApp. This other one, I found that an NGO in Lebanon was doing WhatsApp surveys with Syrian refugees to see what had been their experience in the country because the refugees, most of them, 80% of them had a phone but they didn’t have a computer, they didn’t have anything else. So this is.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

I’ve just spent the last couple of days in Nairobi, Kenya because I’m a board member of an NGO based here, Ushahidi , an organization that builds tools for democratizing information and increasing transparency. I ask people to share what is top of mind when they think about social media and their NGO.

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