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12 Early Adopters of the.NGO and.ONG Domains

Nonprofit Tech for Good

When your online donors and advocates see that your nonprofit uses.NGO or.ONG for your website URL and email addresses, there will be no doubt in their minds that your nonprofit is legal because your nonprofit must complete a validation process via OnGood to be able to use the domain s. Think about that for a second or two. United States.

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Storymakers 2016 Winners

Tech Soup

There, we see hearts, bodies, and minds coming to life through improvisation and the creative arts. Imagine children around the United States learning mindfulness. First, we want to thank every nonprofit and NGO who submitted. Story of Tomorrow Winner — SEEDS final. Please visit the site to view this video).

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Nonprofit Technology News for May 2013: Free WiFi in Forbes Magazine and Braille Phones

Tech Soup

It's mind boggling how something like this could be harnessed for digital inclusion and social sector organizations. Now the bad news: the international NGO sector saw a decline in online giving. Microsoft has placed an Office 365. promotional ad in Forbes that turns the magazine in to a free T-Mobile WiFi hotspot for 15 days.

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Empowering Refugees: Interview with Kjerstin Erickson of FORGE

Have Fun - Do Good

He did his degree in NGO Management, and will be graduating this coming June. I was in high school, I was 17 and my first trip to Africa was to Kenya with my family, just on a picture safari. Well, I think one of the biggest things that crosses people's minds when they hear "Africa," particularly Africa and refugees, is, "Oh my God.

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Supporting Nonprofit Tech Educators Across the Globe

Tech Soup

At each event, we're helping to build and sustain a self-supporting community of practice for tech-minded nonprofit staffers. Victoria, British Columbia: NGO Ho Ho: A Holiday Party for Victoria's Nonprofits. Busia, Kenya: Netsquared Kenya Joins MLH Hackathon 3 December 2016. They're having a huge impact.

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Enabling a Participatory Culture using Creative Commons Licenses

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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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Nonprofit Technology News for March 2014

Tech Soup

Mikey O'Connor of ICANN provided one of the pithiest warnings: "The Internet will be used as the most effective force of mind control the planet has ever seen, leaving the Madison Avenue revolution as a piddling, small thing by comparison." A number of the experts were not optimistic about a connected world at all.

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