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How Malala Fund’s Innovative Grantmaking is Revolutionizing Education for Girls

Saleforce Nonprofit

It’s being re-published today in honor of International Day of the Girl to highlight Malala Fund’s important work around education for girls. Nayla plans to make Tabshoura accessible to more students across Lebanon by training and distributing it to other education-related NGOs in the country. It doesn’t require internet access.

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What happened in 2020 disaster philanthropy beyond COVID-19?  

Candid

Refugees have sought asylum around the globe but primarily in the neighboring countries of Turkey, Lebanon, and Jordan. Millions are also internally displaced within Syria. On August 4, 2020, two explosions rocked the port area of Beirut, Lebanon when a warehouse containing explosive ammonium nitrate detonated. Beirut explosion.

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Meeting the Geeks of Arabia at N2Vlabs Talks in Amman, Jordan

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The program is managed by the Institute of International Education (IIE), and implemented with a coalition of leading new media experts and local and international partners from the public and private sectors. E-Mediat is working with more than 220 NGOs in Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Tunisia, and Yemen.

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Keeping Your 2016 Resolutions with NetSquared's Free Workshops

Tech Soup

The targets need to be linked like so: --> Jump to events in North America or go international with events in. Hamra, Lebanon: FREE Design Basics Workshop. Yaoundé, Cameroon: Strengthening the Capacity of Female University Dropouts In Cameroon. The link need to be like so: Africa. Africa and Middle East.

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Supporting Nonprofit Tech Educators Across the Globe

Tech Soup

The targets need to be linked like so: --> Jump to events in North America or go international with events in. Douala, Cameroon: Strengthening the Capacity of Female University Dropouts. Buéa, Cameroon: Strengthening the Capacity of Female University Dropouts. Beirut, Lebanon: Elevate Startup Sprint. Europe and UK.

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[VIDEO] Using WhatsApp to Increase Engagement with Multicultural Communities

Bloomerang

This other one, I found that an NGO in Lebanon was doing WhatsApp surveys with Syrian refugees to see what had been their experience in the country because the refugees, most of them, 80% of them had a phone but they didn’t have a computer, they didn’t have anything else. We love them, but maybe sometimes not as tech-savvy.

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Women Who Tech Around the World

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Unfortunately, our presenter from Lebanon had connectivity issues and was unable to present. degrees in Political Science from the University of Minnesota. .” Using a webinar and conference call platform, we were able to bring in participants from San Francisco, Rwanda, Kenya, Algeria, Tunisia, and Egypt.

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