Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 19, 2017

In 2017, early adopter nonprofits began launching Amazon Skills. billion and is projected to grow to 6.1 WhatsApp Payments are launching soon in India. The Internet of Things. By the year 2020, over 50 billion things – cars, appliances, roads – will be connected to the Internet of Things. There are currently 6.3 billion by 2020.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2022

With the pandemic leading to new skills needed, being able to attract alumni for their own career development and upskilling opportunities is a strategic growth area. Alumni — as well as students — are increasingly looking for practical work/skills-based experience to better prepare them for the workforce.

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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. At the end of the year, the NGO has the skills and capacity to continue producing community videos. It's a reminder that sharing your video offline can also be powerful.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 11, 2010

Maria was raised by the sisters of the local Chennai Church, given a basic education and was sent off to Worth Trust to learn life skills. 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.

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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. And, they said yes, along with Andy Carvin and Jonny Goldstein.

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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. Can we deliver job skills for $10 per skill? 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. .

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 20, 2015

Samasource connected us with Daproim in Nairobi to proofread books for our Bookshare project. Daproim worked with TechnoServe and developed soft skills training modules for students who stuck with the work after an initial period. Steve went to India for more tests. We go way back with her firm.

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AUGUST 9, 2021

These organizations are currently offering grant and funding opportunities and/or accepting letters of inquiry or project ideas. . Their grantmaking aims to ensure that American public education prepares all students with the knowledge, skills, and dispositions they need to fully participate in democracy and thrive in the global economy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2016

We need more better policies to address gender parity and more programs that build the capacity of nonprofits and the tech skills of women and girls in the development world. These young girls are growing up in the Dharavi neighborhood of Mumbai India, one of the largest slums in the world. The Tech Girls of Dharavi.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 10, 2022

Embrace a writing style known as plain language which is becoming an increasingly important skill for social media managers. 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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

I was in India this past summer to facilitate an intensive four-day training for Packard Foundation grantees working on family-planning issues. In India, I designed the first one to celebrate the local culture: It was called “Bollywood Moment.” Keeping nonprofit audiences engaged during training can improve your outcomes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2017

Beyond the First Click is a project of Capulet, Change.org and the Mobilisation Lab at Greenpeace. Becoming certified as an orange hat is recognition of commitment and skill–it’s a real accomplishment. 7000 kilometres away in India, Haiyya is training the next generation of community organisers.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 4, 2012

This charity also has offices in India , Nepal , and Tanzania operates its own projects and supports partners in Tanzania, India, and Nepal and works on behalf of children in places like the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Pakistan, Peru, Cambodia, China, and Bangladesh. Its unique way of working is project management heavy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 1, 2012

I’m headed to Rwanda to participate in a training for the ACE project, a network of African Women’s Leadership organizations in the Sub-Saharan region. The project is designed and implemented by IIE/Sub-Saharan Office and funded by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation PRH program.

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APRIL 3, 2018

The Gap Analysis function augments succession planning by identifying if employees have obtained those skills necessary for advancement into such positions. In this iteration of meetings you are identifying stakeholders and assigning project roles. Gyrus Systems Included In Vendor Landscape.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2011

I’ve had the opportunity to work in Canada, Australia, Cambodia, Romania, India, UK, and Africa and enjoy the extra dimension of understanding different cultures as part of the instructional and learning process. Reflection on your past practice is a great way to start a new project that builds on the same skills and ideas.

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Tech Soup

MAY 23, 2016

Skills: How Do We Re-skill Members of Our Workforce to Prepare Them for Opportunities of the Future? To enable prosperity in the face of accelerating technology, we need to position people to complement technological advances through strategic re-skilling and lifelong learning.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 4, 2014

Google Global Impact Award competitions have been held in India and the UK, and most recently in the San Francisco Bay Area. ” The Google.org sponsored project invited Bay Area nonprofits to share information about their great work to make a better world. They specialize in providing both hard and soft job skills.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 2, 2009

By chance this morning, I discovered the blog of my one twitter followers, Sumitroy001 who works with ngos and social media in India. As the web becomes more social, data visualization and social data visualization skills will become more necessary to help us make meaning out of complexity.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 19, 2011

Volunteering 100,000 hours and using employees' skills to help nonprofits run more effectively and reach more people. This strategy has evolved over the past year and includes a range of projects and programs throughout the world. The site lets you examine historical population data and future projects through a visual interface.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Details about the project have been hard to come by over the past few months, but here’s what we know: What. We’ll be matching people based on their skills and interests with organizations around the world that need their input. Argentina, France, India, or Kenya?&# Chris Hughes.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 22, 2011

Launched in 2006, Adobe Youth Voices is designed to provide youth in underserved areas with the critical skills they need to become active and engaged members of their communities and the world at large. Check out some of the recent entries: The American Indian Foundation takes you on a tour of India’s slums.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

I am very excited about upcoming peer learning projects that I’m working on in 2012, including several for Packard grantees in India, Pakistan, and Africa as well as the e-Mediat project in the Middle East. Allan Gunn from Aspiration and his legendary facilitation skills and knowledge. What is unclear?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

You also need to consider the learning environment, any constraints, the delivery options, and the timeline for the project. When I taught Networked Nonprofit workshops for NGOs from India and Pakistan , all the examples and even the icebreakers were relevant. The physical space you are working in will also help inform your design.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 10, 2010

In fact, just last month, I took it to India. The big challenge with training is the challenge of transfer - after people go through a training - do they actually put the knowledge and skills into practice? Three different groups have come to me asking for help re-running the game to generate ideas for specific projects.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 24, 2006

Here are some of the winners from last year's competition and their descriptions of their projects. Our for-profit social venture will bring breakthrough low-cost water purification technology to the developing world, starting in India. Pretty cool, huh? Freepledge is a finalist in the Stanford Social Entrepreneurship Challenge.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 5, 2011

” In this world, philanthropic organisations need greater diplomatic skills to operate effectively because top-down governments will increasingly moderate the environment in which the philanthropists work. Systems thinking and knowledge management become critical skills for philanthropists. This will be sparked by pandemics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

My 8 day visit to India was a whirlwind. The Nasscom Foundation in India, the epicenter of nonprofit technology and social innovation, invited me to present as part of the Global CSR track in a session about reaching the Bottom of the Pyramid with technology and social media. I'm still recovering. No wonder I am still tired!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 7, 2020

World Food Program USA (WFP USA), the US affiliate of the 2020 Nobel Prize-winning United Nations World Food Programme, has beautifully adapted the story of Rani—a precocious student in India who receives meals fortified with micronutrients—for their blog, Facebook, and Instagram.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 26, 2007

After life-altering experiences in Vietnam and India, and spending the night in a displaced persons camp in Turkey after the '99 earthquake, I knew my life couldn't continue on it's current course. But I knew nothing about international relations, development, political science, civil society,et al. It is a personal blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2012

After finishing a four-day intensive training in Delhi for the Networked NGO , I stayed on a few days in India to visit colleague, Rufina Fernandez, who I met when she was the CEO of the Nasscom Foundation when she brought me to India to speak at the leadership conference and teach workshops back in 2010.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 13, 2010

"She stood up in our meeting and said that was exactly why women are afraid of taking loans in India, but with Nest, because it's interest-free and they can repay in their necklaces, they didn't have that kind of fear. Her name was Lolita, and her husband had committed suicide during the financial collapse that also hit India.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

The project is controversial in that it definitely has digital inclusion aims, but also is in the critical path of Facebook’s business objectives to grow its user base. The websites are text only and building them requires no previous technical skills. They also connect well with Facebook, Twitter and Google+.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Details about the project have been hard to come by over the past few months, but here’s what we know: What Since the beginning , Hughes has said that Jumo is “an online platform to connect individuals and organizations working to change the world.&# Argentina, France, India, or Kenya?&#

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Breakthrough Multichannel Fundraising: Find, Convert and Cultivate Sustainers and Donors by Firing on all Cylinders * All the data shows dramatically better results from multichannel approaches to fundraising, in which nonprofits combine skillful use of online, direct mail, telemarketing and other channels. How much better?

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 4, 2010

In Africa, we're running capacity-building trainings, and supporting women in launching sustainable businesses, and viable projects, to bring clean water to their communities. We had 15 teams from throughout West Africa coming to learn appropriate water technologies from West African women trainers, who are experts in these types of skills.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

It had hit India. That means building in more structure and more discipline, and for myself, it was a lot of letting go of doing everything and knowing how to do it, you know, figuring everything out and really bringing in people who bring that different set of skills. It hit Singapore, overnight while I had been sleeping.

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