Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 27, 2018

Ketto (India). The 2018 Global Trends in Giving Survey is an annual research project that seeks to gain a better understanding of how donors worldwide prefer to give and engage with their favorite causes and charitable organizations. BackaBuddy (South Africa). backabuddy.co.za. Donate-ng (Nigeria). donate-ng.com. M-Changa (Kenya).

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Judy Heumann (left) moderating the panel on empowering the world''s billion people with disabilities On the second day of the CGI Annual Meeting, I announced Benetech’s Commitment to Action : Leveraging Technology to Bring Books to the Blind in India. Our commitment was selected as an exemplary approach to addressing a global challenge.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2015

Embracing measured risk, The Fund has been willing to make early bets on Benetech, and has repeatedly chosen to invest in our prototype projects. These projects ended up becoming successful and found sustainable funding streams, allowing the innovation to go to scale without needing continued funding from Lavelle.

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Socialbrite

MARCH 8, 2020

Here are some of the campaigns run with Donorbox: Some of the kids helped through the Shanti Bhavan Children’s Project. Shanti Bhavan Children’s Project. 501(c)(3) nonprofit based in Bangalore, India. million through the Shanti Bhavan Children’s Project. Project Charley.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 8, 2020

A specific “WhatsApp Pay” feature is set to be introduced in India (home of 400 million WhatsApp users) this month, but Facebook has not yet announced where else that feature might be rolled out.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 28, 2017

The Innocence Project recently relaunched their website to make it mobile-friendly, including their donation page. Wildlife SOS , based in India, also requires donors to choose whether they want their donation to be processed in U.S. 88% of nonprofits have monthly giving options on their donation pages.

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fusionSpan

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Anuja More Senior Consultant I am a seasoned Senior Salesforce Consultant with a decade of expertise in both Salesforce and non-Salesforce projects. Originally from Hyderabad, India, I am currently based in Dubai. I have a bachelor's degree in technology and am 9x Salesforce certified. How has your career grown since joining the team?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 3, 2017

4) China currently has the highest population in the world, however, by 2050 India will be the most populated country at 1,676 million (compared to China’s 1,387 million). Source: Rothschild’s Giraffe Project. Source: United Nations Population Fund.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 10, 2013

Unfortunately, most companies won’t pursue projects without the promise of big profits and the people who need tech tools the most often can’t afford them. After visiting India in 1949, Wofford became a lifelong advocate of Gandhian nonviolence. Technology has the potential to improve the lives of millions across the world.

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Candid

JULY 22, 2021

As we did with Scott’s previous grant recipients , we examined the organizations and projects Scott selected to see what we might learn about her approach to grantmaking. entities were also supported, including 11 based in India, two in Africa, and one in Mexico. . Editor’s note: Scott awarded a grant to Candid.) . and Puerto Rico.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 6, 2010

"Americans think it takes a lot of money to make a difference," according to Rajesh Haridas, chief operating officer of Vibha , an almost entirely volunteer-run organization that aims to improve the lives of underprivileged youth in India and elsewhere. read more.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

APRIL 7, 2022

In this project, the fund allocation needed to be very granular across the campaigns and the pillars of those campaigns. Overnight, the foundation needed to have the ability to change the campaign pillar and reallocate funds for India. One of those pillars was allocated for oxygen supply in South America.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

DECEMBER 8, 2022

How has participating with the Commons program helped this project? Getting fresh eyes on the project at every Community Sprint event helps us develop something that can be really useful for the community, not just what we want to build. It’s not just useful for offline situations like interviewing people in rural India.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 13, 2015

Mission: To improve access and quality of education for 4 million children living in underserved communities in India. Mission: To help eradicate extreme poverty through community development projects in urban sanitation, water filtration, health, alternative energy, and economic empowerment. Project 1948 Foundation ● project1948.ngo.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 7, 2006

I recently learned about an nonprofit organization in India dedicated to using video to help alleviate poverty and accelerate social change in the developing world. In looking at some of the project examples , I found several that focus on women's empowerment and rights in India. The organization is called Video Volunteers.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 19, 2017

billion and is projected to grow to 6.1 WhatsApp Payments are launching soon in India. There are currently 6.3 billion email accounts worldwide and the number is expected to grow to 7.7 billion by 2021 – a growth rate of 22%. Email accounted for 26% of all online revenue in 2016 and grew 14% over 2015. billion by 2020.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 17, 2009

Get this: the funding decisions on their new clean water projects are made by peer project leaders. So, your effort to address the needs of your community through a new water or sanitation project is going to be evaluated by a group of people who have been through doing the same thing in their communities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2007

I'd sure love an opportunity to spend a whole day in a room with Jay Dedman and Ryan Hodson shoulder-to-shoulder and learn about this project and more video making skills. The Indian team chooses all the stories and does the production. So, I asked them if they would help lead a GeekOut session at the NTC Conference in DC in April, 2007.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

We’re going to demonstrate what this could look like by piloting Bookshare International at scale in India. We just announced a Commitment to Action at the Clinton Global Initiative , to increase our impact in India by an order of magnitude. Human Rights Enrique Piracés Major milestones are the norm this year for our Human Rights team.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 20, 2009

Situated on the banks of the Vellayani fresh water lake, on the outskirts on Thiruvananthapuram in Kerala, India , IISE is a testimony to social enterprise at its very best. The participants would get hands on training at a non profit organization in India and will train in all aspects of non profit management.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

Our Bookshare team has also been working on a special project with Qatar’s Mada Assistive Technology Center to add Arabic-language books to the collection. In the rural region of Ranipet in Tamil Nadu, India, 500 Bookshare texts, which had their spines removed for scanning, have been acquired by the Vedavalli Vidyalaya school.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 9, 2014

Gallucci and Roy jointly announced a partnership of philanthropic organizations investing more than $15 million in grants to 23 projects as well as an additional $13 million available in the coming year for innovative projects that will increase the participation, quality, and relevance of secondary education.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 18, 2008

The main reason for my visit to South India was the National Seminar on Print Access For All, which was organized by the dynamic Mr. Krishnaswamy. He has taken on delivering print access as his personal project after his retirement from a senior police force role.

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Tech Soup

JULY 13, 2012

Technology product donations, training, and nonprofit data are all part of TechSoup Global’s offering to civil society in India. Our BigTech program is run by our local partner, the NASSCOM Foundation in India. million NGOs in India. According to the Indian Central Statistical Office, there are 3.3

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Recently, Social Misfits Media’s Community Manager, Angharad Francis, interviewed the brilliant Pushpa Aman Singh, Founder of GuideStar India. In this interview, Pushpa discusses her journey prior to founding GuideStar India, her role in helping NGOs and how WhatsApp is driving strong communication among stakeholders.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

Many of our projects turn on legal questions, and our attorneys are a core part of figuring out solutions that will have real positive impact on society. Right now, we have multiple law school clinics that would love to tackle new projects with us, projects we actually have but lack the bandwidth to pursue.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

I've just returned from a trip to India where there is a different approach to solving complex social problems using social media and the Internet. He told me about their crowd sourcing for social good strategy to find an affordable, and clean energy solution for India's poor population. How can these goals be balanced?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Lighting of the lamp is a traditional way to begin a conference here in India. It showcases projects that demonstrate best practices in technology in the area of social change. The winners include a variety of agricultural rural projects, healthcare, and more. . Tags: india. There was a large volume of applications.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2010

Note from Beth: During my trip to India in February, I was introduced to a nonprofit children's book publisher in India, Pratham Books. “It was set up to fill a gap in the market for good quality, reasonably priced children’s books in a variety of Indian languages. India has a reading problem and the problem is two fold.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Furthermore, corporate partnerships to generate workforce development , consulting engagements, and research projects are also on the rise as schools hunt for new revenue streams. colleges said they are prioritising student outreach in India and China, the two primary markets for international students for Australian universities.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 11, 2010

Thanks to a generous grant from the Lavelle Foundation, Bookshare has been able to work with Worth Trust, a nonprofit with offices in Chennai, India. The project's goals were to work with organizations that provide opportunities for people with disabilities and digitize a million pages of books to be added to the Bookshare collection.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 3, 2011

And it was so much fun to watch people answering the questions and getting real time data to things that would help our project. Background on the project: Stories of Our City is a worldwide project sharing true stories from around the world. social media “how can we use social media to engage people in our project?&#.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

The NASSCOM India Leadership Forum has multiple tracks based on theme. In addition, during a roundtable on social media at the conference, I was fortunate to meet social media experts in India ( @ nirav @ amnigos @ pranavbhasin @ paritoshsharma and @ avinashraghava ) who shared some examples.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

I also think that examining this idea in a place where the 3 areas create a very clear Venn Diagram, like India, invites a wide range of voices to the conversation. One of the participants was Pratima from Shelter Associates in Pune, India. Find out more about the conference here.

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Tech Soup

JULY 18, 2017

Orphans Getting an Elite Education in India. Ramakrishna Mission Students Home in India provides a home and education to orphaned boys from rural Tamil Nadu state in South India. In this project, the Candlelighters CyberKids program provides young cancer patients with a laptop with Microsoft Windows and Office.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2014

The Oak Foundation just awarded us a grant to provide accessible content to people with qualifying learning differences (like dyslexia) in Brazil, India, and the United Kingdom. The Lavelle Foundation is supporting us to expand Bookshare in India, which will likely be our first full-scale replication of Bookshare outside the U.S.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 10, 2007

Starting this week, you can vote for the best NetSquared Innovation Fund Award nominated projects until Saturday, April 14th at Noon PDT. You can cast your ballot for the projects that you think most effectively use the social web for social change. The complete list of projects can be found here. Creative Commons suggests.

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