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Social Media, Networking, and African Women’s Leadership Training in Rwanda

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

For the past ten days, I’ve been in Rwanda, Africa. The group will working together over the next three years, meeting regularly face-to-face in the different countries as well as work together online. Most of the training days took place in rural Rwanda on Lake Muhazi – which was a beautiful place.

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Announcing Our Second Impact Labs Cohort on Zero Hunger: Supporting Small-Scale Farmers Globally

Saleforce Nonprofit

Each of these groups provided insights into the challenge, determined a focus area where technology can help, and developed a solution. He has been on field missions to co-create solutions with governments and implementing partners in Zambia, Mozambique, Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, Nigeria, and Bangladesh. Dun-Ying Vicki Yu. Emma Visman.

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Improve Your Fundraising Approach and Skills at NetSquared Meetups

Tech Soup

Your local NetSquared group is here to help with free, in-person events being held across the U.S. If you're holding monthly events that gather the #nptech community, let me know , and I'll include you in the next community calendar, or apply today to start your own NetSquared group. Feeling overwhelmed? and the globe.

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Akilah Institute for Women: Social Media Workshop

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The mission is to empower young women in East Africa to transform their lives by equipping them with the skills, knowledge, and confidence to find meaningful employment and launch ventures in the fastest growing sectors of the economy. They were very excited to see the Minister of Health in Rwanda on Twitter.

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The Networked NGO in India

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This was the launch of a peer learning group called “ The Networked NGO ,” based on the ideas in my book, The Networked Nonprofit. The four-day intensive face-to-face training was for senior level staff and their social media staffers. This is something that nonprofit professionals are just beginning to explore.

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Empowering Women Citizen Journalists: An Interview with Cristi Hegranes

Have Fun - Do Good

When women have access to specific skills, training, and education, all of a sudden their survival and livelihood statistics shoot way up, not only their own, but entire communities. It was written in very scribbled Nepali, her literacy skills were incredibly rudimentary, but what she ended up writing was a piece of journalism.

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[VIDEO] The Science of Philanthropic Psychology

Bloomerang

But we do have a group of much more energetic postdoctoral researchers at our institute at the moment exploring how people love the nature and how people love animals too. So when we talk about loving people, it’s not just about loving other people, but how can we use the skills that we have to love ourselves to love other people. .

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