Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2012

She selected an orange flower from the “nadiflame” tree because to her women who are leaders stand out miles away – just like the orange flowers on this tree. She shared examples of women leaders in Kenya. When we came back to the circle, we had to introduce each other and the other person’s object.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 26, 2013

The hackathon model is ideal for nonprofits and libraries because it brings together motivated volunteers to expedite a project on a limited budget. There are many different types of hackathons: from company hackathons (such as Facebook's All-Night Hackathon ) to government improvement hackathons (like #HackWeTrust. or Code for Oakland ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2014

Within just 10 days of folding, Foldit players helped decipher the structure of an AIDs-causing virus and produced an accurate 3D model of the enzyme, a problem that had eluded scientists and supercomputers for more than 10 years. In Philanthropy. Zynga.org ( [link] ) was created with the mission to use games to help those in need.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2011

The presentation was an opportunity to share some insights about working internationally and from sharing the ideas from the book from trip to Kenya / UK last November. Transparency is one of the ideas and, of course, we’ll be modeling this. Did they translate or were they lost in translation? This year my birthday (Jan.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Mary Mwende told us about her journey from Mombasa, Kenya, to being one of ten girls chosen for the Global Give Back Circle , a mentoring and empowerment program. Peter believes that the consortium is an attractive model that can be replicated in other regions of the world.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2011

Some of the most promising innovations in the non-profit space are using substantially similar models. A woman in Kenya (replete with name and photo) who could use your $50 to start a corner store. Gansky may well be right- but it’s not just in the for-profit world that these kinds of start-ups are disrupting business-as-usual.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

We've been testing the Ambassador model for the last two years, and it has been been instrumental in the growth of NetSquared. Busia, Kenya: Safer Internet 2016 — 9th February 2016. It's a good thing we've expanded our support capacity. Mississauga, Ontario: Hustle Hour — Bring Your Work! Africa + Middle East.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 6, 2011

Think about the newspaper model. Content Strategy is basically bringing elements of the newspaper model to websites. Your content governance model details ownership for the ongoing decisions that are made as content is developed, edited, approved, published to the web and retired. Who decides if you need a new section?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2009

This includes leadership, social innovation, communications, branding, graphic facilitation, financial and funding models. Paula Kahumbu – WildlifeDirect Nairobi, Kenya. I appreciated the facilitation provided by Mukara Meredith who integrates universal principles of healing into a new model of leadership called Matrixworks.

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Forum One

JUNE 18, 2009

This session we focused on issues of health data collection--represented by the form shown here, which is a brand-new data collection instrument from Kenya (brought to the group by PATH's David Lubinski). This form is emblematic of the profound challenges in gathering accurate, reliable, consistent data at the field level.

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

According to Heeks, the field of ICT4D emerged really as an artifact of the telecenter model which was used successfully to extend basic ICT services at the periphery in North America and Europe. . User fees -- necessary if you ever wished to achieve sustainability -- were always a struggle, as they often shut the desired audience out.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 14, 2014

Nonprofit Success Story: Ushahidi, a nonprofit headquartered in Kenya, used Kickstarter to launch production of BRCK, a Wi-Fi router and mobile modem built to withstand the elements. There are payment processing fees attached to this which work out to roughly 3-5%. If you don't meet your goal, there are no fees.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Nonprofit Success Story: Ushahidi, a nonprofit headquartered in Kenya, used Kickstarter to launch production of BRCK, a Wi-Fi router and mobile modem built to withstand the elements. There are payment processing fees attached to this which work out to roughly 3-5%. If you don't meet your goal, there are no fees.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

mobile payment system in Kenya that allows people there to text each other money. These services use a Netflix business model that allow subscribers to read as many books as you want for a monthly fee. Back in my May Nonprofit Technology News edition, I covered the emerging field of digital wallets. All Things D. One is called Oyster.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 12, 2006

Last night I went to my first giving circle using the Dining for Women model, and it was pretty inspiring. They offer $100-$150 start-up grants to businesses in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania. Here's how VEF works.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

You think about the various models that are out there, the templates, the timelines, the job descriptions, the consultants. We have a vision to build a sickle cell-centric hospital in Western Kenya.” And as you all know, capital campaigns have been around for a long time. I mean the resources really seem to be endless. .

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Neverware’s pricing is a subscription model – monthly per PC fee. Ushahidi in Kenya has developed a device called a BRCK that addresses frequent Internet and electricity outages in much of the developing world. This new technology has become available in time to help public schools in the U.S. MyDigitalBridge.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 19, 2009

FORGE uses a collaborative, rather than top-down model, to serve refugees' needs, and much has been written in the blogosphere and media about Erickson's "radical transparency" around the organization's financial challenges. The model that FORGE takes is really a long-term impact framework. It's the same thing in a development context.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 20, 2006

And we've kind of created, working with researchers, a model that really shows the different ways these things are happening in different parts of the program so all the things that you need to set up a school garden in order to set the stage for all of these benefits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

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. Creative Commons to the rescue.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 21, 2006

We saw that there was a need, and we saw that if you build this powerful business model that was this source, or hub, of economic organizing, and food systems organizing and education, it would be powerful. If you liked the opening music, it was an excerpt from Kenya Masala's, "Mango Delight." But we wanted to do it.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 22, 2006

And if you liked the opening music, it was an excerpt from Kenya Masala's "Mango Delight". You can learn more about Kenya's work and his music by going to sourceconsultinggroup.com. Everyone else around us is going out and getting millions of dollars to try to just build some giant thing."

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Tech Soup

MARCH 24, 2014

The plan is to build 11,000 “Solara 60″ model drones that are capable of providing satellite Internet to places on earth without Internet connectivity starting with Africa. My current favorite digital inclusion NGO is our newest TechSoup Global partner, Computers For Schools Kenya. TechCrunch. What the heck.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 6, 2010

It's the only one we have at this point, but we're looking at trying to expand that model a little; well, not a little bit, because we have people that are interested in Dining for Women who live in areas where we don't already have chapters. I took my 14-year-old with me to Kenya this past March, and it was a life-changing experience.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 10, 2006

She has worked in rural Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda with the Village Enterprise Fund, and Project Baobab on impact evaluation and program development. let's take Kenya: say there is a head office in Nairobi, and maybe some branch offices in Kakamega or Kisumu, towns all around Kenya. So, fast-forward a whole year.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 4, 2010

One of the women that stands out is actually someone who participated in our 2008 training, which took place in Kenya. We are looking to model the solutions at every level of the work. Literally, relationships were formed that will last a lifetime. Her name is Solame.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 24, 2012

” Using a webinar and conference call platform, we were able to bring in participants from San Francisco, Rwanda, Kenya, Algeria, Tunisia, and Egypt. Originally from Kenya, she earned a B.A. Originally from Kenya, she earned a B.A. and Kenya, where Akili Dada is based.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 19, 2006

If you like the music, it is from Kenya Masala's "Mango Delight". You can learn more about Kenya's work and his music by going to sourceconsultinggroup.com. Britt Bravo: Thanks for listening to the Big Vision podcast. For more information about the Rainforest Action Network, go to www.ran.org.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 29, 2006

How to have better practices in communication, and I think one of the things we do at Art and Action is model collective leadership. So we're modeling collective multi-racial, multi-cultural leadership at our camps, and lot of people have just never seen that in action. I think some people are modeling that quite well.

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