Tech Soup

JUNE 15, 2012

But how exactly can nonprofits use it and other platforms to raise money, grow their base of supporters, change policy, and recruit volunteers and board members? New Delhi, India – December TBA. Facebook now boasts over 901 million active users, making it, by population, the world’s third largest country.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 10, 2008

As in India, these communities have been renaming their islands back to their original or local names, rather than English approximations. The weirdest thing about the island hopper was the security policy. As a history buff, I didn't know the new names for some of these places.

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Association TV

JULY 29, 2022

And if it’s not broke and it boosts employee morale and productivity, why not make it company policy? In the mid-19th Century, the East India Company needed a physical space to store their piles and piles of ledgers, forms and other important artifacts that managed their transactions all over the world.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

Pulling together the facts, figures and stories that tell us where progress is being made and where it is lagging, we believe we will be better able to inspire real change and firm commitments from governments to really change the laws and policies and budget decisions that hold girls and women back. . Photo by Annie Spratt on Unsplash.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

Pulling together the facts, figures and stories that tell us where progress is being made and where it is lagging, we believe we will be better able to inspire real change and firm commitments from governments to really change the laws and policies and budget decisions that hold girls and women back. . Photo by Annie Spratt on Unsplash.

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Association TV

JULY 29, 2022

Correction error: In the podcast, I suggest the East India Company first moved into their office in Britain in the 19th Century, when it was in fact the 18th Century. And if it’s not broke and it boosts employee morale and productivity, why not make it company policy? Caution: No turtles were harmed in the making of this blog.

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Care2

JUNE 17, 2010

Interestingly, despite all the protests against Facebook’s privacy policy she also said that people entrust their personal info with social networks. In India it grew by 1250%. She said only 11% of teens email daily and that they are using SMS (or Twitter) and social networks for communications. In the UK it grew by 203%.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 4, 2012

Note from Beth: I’m packing my bags for a trip to India to lead a training for NGOs that are Packard Grantees to kick off a peer learning project called “Networked NGO.” Flickr Photo by alshepmcr. After initially promoting the blog carnival on our network, which has a social media reach of 3.5

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 8, 2010

A Policy Update from an engineer, Jim Fruchterman of Benetech June 8, 2010 The international copyright negotiations in Geneva around a proposed Treaty for the Visually Impaired (“TVI”) have been steadily heating up. trade publishers (and some in India and the UK), and over 1,000 international members in 35 countries today.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 6, 2019

India drafted its first data privacy bill. Some of them may not apply to your organization, but it’s a good place to begin evaluating how robust your policy is. Finally, read your policy for clarity and tone. 2018 was a seminal year for privacy. Its executives were hauled before Congressional committees.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2009

Others examples include loans to schools in India and capital for small manufacturers in Ghana. Lucy Bernholz, moderating, said that metrics are the carbon in the ecosystem and the oxygen is the policy frame. She’s launched a policy project you can read about here. An easy example is green technology.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 14, 2009

We did some exploration of the likely impacts on the market for audio books: that seems to be one of the major policy concerns about the text-to-speech issue. be against duplicating in the world a policy approach that is used here with great success? These seems to be an important part of international copyright law.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 29, 2009

The distance between a social enterprise investor, a program officer, or a policy maker or citizen in the United States and a person in the slums of Kenya or India participating in an economic development or health social enterprise has never been smaller. We can now discuss, highlight and organize around the initiatives that work.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 23, 2016

In India, women bloggers are threatened on Twitter with “live-telecasted gang-rape and acid attacks.” I challenge top development experts, technology leaders, philanthropists and policy-makers to partner with grassroots women the world over and rise to the task. The women I work with every day are ready.

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Care2

OCTOBER 13, 2008

i impllemented in future means i will give name to this as SHOI abbrevated as student helping organization of india,which was run by the students,students are the main aspect for this.In All Care2 terms of service and privacy policies apply. have an idea which will changes the entire life of my state and india.if All rights reserved.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 9, 2007

Once again, our counterterrorism policy brings more terror. And when Congress presses the president to act on a foreign policy issue, the president responds. I also found it heartening to hear that the US government actually does listen when the public applies pressure.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

Your way may be starting an organic catering company, or painting about issues that are important to you, or getting out on the streets and protesting, or maybe working with policy; there are all kinds of different work. As I wrote in Loyal to the Sky , I spent about five months in India and Nepal right after 9/11.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

Since 2000, the Institute of International Education has worked on leadership development with the goal of building and sustaining networks of leaders who would improve the delivery of family planning and reproductive health outcomes through improved services and policies.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 29, 2010

There's a woman in India, Darshan Shah, who started a weavers' co-op. He went around the world collecting traditional contemporary folk music, assembled those into themes on CDs, and began national distribution. He created a whole genre we now know as World Music. That co-op now has 600 women working, and weaving using traditional methods.

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See3

NOVEMBER 12, 2007

The New York organization last year collected more than 60 hours of footage of the organization’s workers and volunteers helping AIDS patients in Uganda, tsunami victims in India, and poor residents of El Salvador, and it soon plans to use that extra footage for an extensive online video campaign.

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See3

NOVEMBER 12, 2007

The New York organization last year collected more than 60 hours of footage of the organization’s workers and volunteers helping AIDS patients in Uganda, tsunami victims in India, and poor residents of El Salvador, and it soon plans to use that extra footage for an extensive online video campaign.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 2, 2014

Crafting a mobile and social media policy. Wildlife SOS – India. Using Facebook, Twitter, Google+, LinkedIn, YouTube, Instagram, Pinterest, and Tumblr. Reporting live from events and and communicating online in real-time. Avoiding mobile and social media burnout. And much more! View the Mobile for Good Table of Contents.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 17, 2006

Chris Wolz manages this blog with the help of his colleagues at Forum One Communications, a web strategy/technology firm in the Washington DC area.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 28, 2006

For example, some of our women in Africa and India are interested in taking the ideas and the best practices that came out of this training into their regions. And that is now being shared with women in Africa, women in India, who will then try to implement something similar in their communities. This was what didn't.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 3, 2017

It is crucial that policymakers are aware and informed about the gender equality challenges in their country if they are to effectively develop the right laws, policies and budget allocations to tackle these challenges and improve the quality of life for women and girls.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 5, 2013

On the other hand, the dominant countries of India and China are far behind. In India, 95 percent of obsolete electronics are recycled in the informal sector. They are developing an industrial capacity, for instance, with companies like Trishyiraya Recycling in Southern India. Asia is also a good news-bad news story.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 17, 2022

The organization operates in Thailand, Cambodia, the Philippines, Laos, Dominican Republic and India and also has offices in three donor nations: United States, Australia and New Zealand.

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Forum One

APRIL 27, 2009

They provide a number of free software tools for policy and decision making. Conference speakers were full of inspirational stories, such as a keynote by Al Sommer , MD, MHS, Professor and Dean Emeritus, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, whose friend in the 1970s in India asked, ?Why s mass produces hamburgers??

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 7, 2013

We have the policies and we have the technology to make sure that, as Bookshare''s General Manager Betsy Beaumon says, "All materials that are born digital are born accessible." The World Blind Union''s lead negotiator pointed out how these provisions would, in practice, stop Bookshare from serving blind people in India.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 4, 2010

The next area, where Women's Earth Alliance works, is in India , where we learned from our colleagues on the ground that support around creating sustainable agriculture would be the best thing we could do to help. You both just came back from the 2010 West African Women and Water Training in Ghana.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 8, 2006

The policies that get set here, the ways in which we either have regulations and standards that corporations have to follow, or don't. And in that book we were really interested in hearing the voices, the stories of people around the world that were addressing the root causes of hunger and poverty. The way U.S.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 30, 2007

My path was really environmental work, environmental policy work. Last year I started supporting this organization called Free Set that is a New Zealand couple that works with a co-op in Calcutta, India. I would have never imagined that my work would have me be working so directly with women, and a lot of them, and all the time.

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Care2

APRIL 20, 2009

Greenpeace India offered their support. All Care2 terms of service and privacy policies apply. April 20, 2009 | Rosalyn Lemieux Allyson After a Kenya based youth participation group had been flown by Oxfam to a seminar in Oxford, UK a determined campaigner for premature babies, Patrick wrote to the e-campaigners forum e-mail list.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 2, 2008

My mother believed very deeply that being privileged middle class Indians, the community that I grew up in India, required us to have a commitment and a sense of giving back to the communities that we grew up in and around, and to really seeing those communities. What do you know about the charter for human rights?

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