Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 15, 2010

She emphasized that technology services for the bottom of the pyramid need to be designed with their needs in mind, and not to make presumptions. I shared the story of how Pratham Books used Twitter to help get children's books to children in rural India. Tags: india.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2014

That’s what’s been on my mind lately. I have disruptive approaches to social innovation in mind, with an increasingly connected society where the cost of prototyping and deploying new products is extremely low, and where innovation is no longer the sole purview of well-funded for-profit corporations. 10X: ten times the impact.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 10, 2022

Experiment and keep in mind that those who use Twitter regularly tend to love Twitter. To prove that point, this video tweet from @WildlifeSOS that tells the good news story of a nail-biting rescue of a leopard in India received very high engagement compared to their other tweets: 4.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 20, 2019

In The Way of the SEAL: Think Like an Elite Warrior to Lead and Succeed , ex-Navy SEAL Commander Mark Divine reveals exercises, meditations, and focusing techniques to train your mind for mental toughness, emotional resilience, and uncanny intuition. This is primarily because they have never been taught how to use their whole minds.

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AccelEvents

JUNE 28, 2021

I’m in a position of a majority and try to be mindful of privilege, so I know that my comfort with expressing myself and engaging in discourse with a peer may be an entirely different experience than someone else. To me, that’s pride – that’s what this is about, that’s the agenda.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 3, 2011

With this in mind, we asked questions in 3 primary areas: content- “what kind of stories do people like?&#. For instance, in India, weapons won out. We believe that if people will listen to each other they will understand each other better – and hopefully take steps as world citizens to build a more peaceful world.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 28, 2014

I explained Benetech’s efforts to grow the impact of our Bookshare library globally, specifically discussing partnerships with groups in India and Kenya. As someone who has been writing software for blind people for 25 years, we were in my element! Last month, a good friend of mine connected me to someone who was recovering from a stroke.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 4, 2014

In The Way of the SEAL : Think Like an Elite Warrior to Lead and Succeed , ex-Navy SEAL Commander Mark Divine reveals exercises, meditations, and focusing techniques to train your mind for mental toughness, emotional resilience, and uncanny intuition. This is primarily because they have never been taught how to use their whole minds.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 13, 2016

People who start novel organizations like Ashesi University in Ghana, Technology Access Foundation in Seattle, and Shanti Bhavan (a boarding school) in India. Something that any geek that aims to do social good must keep in mind!

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JUNE 9, 2014

In The Way of the SEAL : Think Like an Elite Warrior to Lead and Succeed , ex-Navy SEAL Commander Mark Divine reveals exercises, meditations, and focusing techniques to train your mind for mental toughness, emotional resilience, and uncanny intuition. This is primarily because they have never been taught how to use their whole minds.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 23, 2021

Keep in mind also that some superpowers are easier for some people than others, and some may be more difficult. v, AnyRoad, and Unsettled, as well as governments ranging from Singapore to South Africa, Canada to Colombia, Italy to India. Thank you to the book's publisher for sending me an advance copy of the book.

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Kindful

AUGUST 9, 2021

Areas served: US, India, South Africa. The letter should tell them about your organization, the project you have in mind, the issue or need you seek to address and the amount of support you will need from them. The Kresge Foundation. Areas served: Indianapolis/Indiana.

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Global Giving

MARCH 7, 2019

dollars and British pounds, and donors in India and East Africa can contribute in their local currencies via our partnerships with ImpactGuru and M-Changa. The Big Question. GlobalGiving accepts donations in U.S. Still, there are plenty of major currencies we don’t offer yet.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

Previously, she produced the Our Social Times and Influence People’s North American Social Media Marketing and Monitoring conference series and started a web development and social media business, which leveraged an international team of programmers and designers across India, Romania, and the U.S.

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Care2

DECEMBER 16, 2009

We actually recognized Twitter’s potential for live blogging events, commenting on relevant issues surrounding climate legislation, and creating conversations with like-minded supporters to build a groundswell of support for our issues.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 16, 2022

Illuminate India and Clubhouse Guatemala both completely cover the cost of many of the children in their programs with monthly sponsors. Some people will sign up immediately and for others, you’ve planted the seed of the idea in their minds and they’ll sign up another time. Website visitors.

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Care2

DECEMBER 16, 2009

We actually recognized Twitter’s potential for live blogging events, commenting on relevant issues surrounding climate legislation, and creating conversations with like-minded supporters to build a groundswell of support for our issues.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 3, 2005

My last Davos Diary piece for BBC News was published this week, 'Meetings of Minds'. Here's the text of my article: My good friend from India, Joe Madiath, bumps into another man at a Davos party thrown by the Egyptians. This was fun to write, and this Davos was incredible. They say hi and shake hands. You look a lot like Al Gore.".

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 19, 2011

With this in mind, SAP donates their products and services through TechSoup but also connects their employees with organizations to provide them with volunteer help in devising technology solutions. This strategy has evolved over the past year and includes a range of projects and programs throughout the world.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 17, 2015

For example, in 2014 WOD for Water raised $212,174 around a CrossFit workout event to bring clean water to villages in India, Cambodia, and south Sudan. To tell your story in a way that resonates with your audience, keep in mind the following pointers: Posing a question to your audience can get them interested in what your cause is about.

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NTEN

JULY 18, 2013

Connecting with Millennials "When I was invited to speak, the first thing that came to mind was "calling." I volunteered at a child health care org in India. Note: Mike and the other speakers today are being introduced and interviewed by journalist and emcee Nadira Hira , on Twitter at @nadirahira.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

JULY 22, 2008

For the techie in the non-profit or association space, taking a guilt- and anxiety-free vacation is not about state of mind, but about preparation. Its a sort of preparation you need to be thinking about in one way or another before any absence - whether its a day off to paint your kitchen or a month-long trip through India.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MAY 18, 2021

Even five months after the first COVID-19 vaccine was administered, worldwide vaccination efforts remain a constant news topic, especially in the face of new infection waves that are currently surging in India and other countries. Our hearts and minds go out to India and its people in this terrible acute crisis phase.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

I also keep in mind dips in the circadian rhythms for humans that have impact on their ability to pay attention and learn – and I design different types of activities accordingly. When I taught Networked Nonprofit workshops for NGOs from India and Pakistan , all the examples and even the icebreakers were relevant.

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Tech Soup

MAY 7, 2013

It's mind boggling how something like this could be harnessed for digital inclusion and social sector organizations. This is technology for good news from India. It's apparently a real WiFi router that will connect as many as five devices. Accessibility.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 14, 2016

At bbcon 2015, some of the top minds in the nonprofit industry came together to present Big Idea sessions. For instance, in a recent article that lays out ways for Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan, to spend their $45 billion on charity, the author points to India.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

The deepest answers started to come from a place I would call "spiritual," reading books that were spiritual, and I went to India. As I wrote in Loyal to the Sky , I spent about five months in India and Nepal right after 9/11. India is next to Pakistan, which is right next to Afghanistan, and the US had just gone to war in Afghanistan.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 7, 2020

Many of the issues they champion have taken a backseat in people’s minds this year, as our nation’s attention has been captured by one shocking event after another. They whisk people away from their everyday lives and connect them with ideas that can revolutionize how they think.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Note from Beth: Lately, a question on my mind is whether or not the concept of Networked Nonprofits is a global one as I’ve had the opportunity to share some of the ideas beyond the US borders in Kenya and UK. I think Pratham Books , an NGO in India, is a networked nonprofit.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 20, 2011

I myself was also almost a human trafficking victim for the purpose of forced marriage in India. We will not win the fight against slavery and human trafficking with egos, but with open and understanding hearts and minds.”. >> >> Learn more about Aashika and Survivors Connect today: [link].

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 24, 2007

There is one garden in Southern India, the Utu Garden, which apparently has an equal representation of women to men, which isn't always common. Another garden, also in India, has put money into either retirement funds, because the government doesn't give that to them, and funds for parents with disabled children.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 24, 2014

The nonprofit technology news this month reports on the reinvention of the wheel in India and Africa, how nonprofits are leading the wearable computing field, the privacy threat you may not have heard about yet, and plenty more. Reinventing the Wheel in India and Africa. There’s lots of interesting NPTech news this month.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 2, 2007

With that in mind, World of Good has really launched a kind of retail strategy, looking a lot like Hallmark. We started about two years ago with that commercial mission in mind, and we now have 1,000 stores across the United States that have a small section, a World of Good "footprint" in their store. So anyway, it is really exciting.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

I can see someone said that they work in India. WhatsApp is huge in India. So always keep that in mind. So I know there’s an example in India that nonprofits in India are using WhatsApp because, you know, it’s such a huge piece of land. So it’s working. Lots of ones. ” and I said, “No.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 17, 2014

I see social enterprise as a kind of benign stopgap — an approach whereby people can contribute to the good of the world, find people of similar mind, and make a living. I heard about it in Hyderabad, India, at an Ashoka-Lemelson Foundation event. It was the work of a Kenyan innovator named David Kuria.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

It had hit India. And mind you, they weren't all women who wanted to be journalists. We so often are willing to give and give and give, and our own bodies or our own state of mind is the last thing. It hit Singapore, overnight while I had been sleeping. I came down, and I just started to cry. So, we started this program.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Then, there are some chapters who start for the express purpose of finding other like-minded women, and then the connections go out from there. In 2007, we went to India, and we visited a program called Matrichaya , which we'll be supporting again in January of 2011. It really does vary. Is there just one virtual circle?

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