Tech Soup

MARCH 19, 2013

We released our report on the 2012 TechSoup Global NGO Cloud Survey in September of 2012 and have now had more time to ponder the findings and talk to several of you about what you think of them. What Are the Biggest Barriers to More Widespread NGO Migration to the Cloud? Find the first and second post in this series online.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 17, 2015

First, “NGO” is an acronym meaning “non-governmental organization” whereas “ONG” means “non-governmental organization” in countries where a romance language is spoken i.e., Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, and Romanian. When a donor or supporter receives an email with .NGO

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 13, 2015

Unlike the.ORG domain which can be registered by any individual or brand (but mostly registered by nonprofits and socially conscious for-profits), the new.NGO and.ONG domains can only be registered by nonprofits, charities, NGOs (non-governmental organizations), and ONGs (non-governmental organizations in a romance-based language ).

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Qgiv

JANUARY 8, 2024

Employing these latest trends and best practices can help you amplify your organization’s fundraising success! This versatile tool can generate text, translate languages, create diverse forms of creative content, and more. Google Bard, an AI experiment by Google, empowers users to explore and express creative ideas effortlessly.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

The Global Scale project aims to create a resource for NGO practitioners where guidelines, lessons learned, tips, links and other help for ‘scaling up’ effective programs can be found. This month’s NTEN Communications Roundtable focuses on communications struggles, lessons, and best practices for working internationally.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2012

I’m here at the Dead Sea in Jordan where I delivered the key note for the E-mediat Networking Conference, “New Media for the Networked NGO.” I delivered one of the keynotes and as you can see from this slide, we had two screens presenting materials in both languages. We were assigned specific seats at the VIP table.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2011

Over the past 18 months, I’ve been participating in The Network of Networked Funders , a community of practice for grantmakers facilitated by the Monitor Institute. These grantmakers are supporting and working through networks to pool their learning and increase the impact of their respective grantmaking practices.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2012

This blog post is a summary of reflections about the instructional design and how NGOs in these countries are becoming Networked NGOs. Here’s an interview with the translators about best practices for facilitating training activities that need to be translated. Group Photo with Certificates. Design for Flexibility.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 12, 2013

inform and improve day-to-day nonprofit practice. My days as an Ally are behind me, but the passion remains: in December of 2012 I found myself on a plane bound for a Tanzanian NGO. Toting my understanding of international development, and my NGO experience, I figured I knew to expect the unexpected. As part of a. I got this.

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Tech Soup

MAY 31, 2013

We proudly welcome NGO partners Vietnet-ICT and the Lin Centre in Vietnam, as well as ASEAN Foundation , Kopernik Marketplace , and YCAB Foundation in Indonesia to the TechSoup Global family. Our New NGO Partners in Vietnam. English is increasingly favored as a second language. Our New NGO Partners in Indonesia.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2013

Note from Beth: By the time you read this post, I will be in the USA from doing a training in Tunisia for NGOs and trainers who will deliver training to women entrepreneurs as part of the WES program and also improve their NGO’s use of social media.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 8, 2010

I’m heading to Geneva later this month for the next major meeting at the World Intellectual Property Organization (“WIPO”), to hear the latest and make my three-minute oration as an accredited NGO representative (first time for me!). They all meet the definition of TI as a primary purpose of the agency or NGO.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 2, 2012

You can build applications using any language, tool or framework. We'll cover best practices for backup, security, documentation, and unified communications. And it works for nonprofits too! We’ve asked a few of our global network partners to be on hand to provide their take on the issues. Evonne Heyning and Susan Tenby.

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Tech Soup

JULY 9, 2015

How to Launch a Social Media and Content Strategy for Your NGO OnGood / Webinar / Fee: Free. Community of Practice: Chat with Anne Kreamer NTEN / Community of Practice: Women in NPTECH / Fee: Free. If you are provide online learning events for nonprofits and your event language is English, we want to know about you.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

The group has an impressive breadth and depth of expertise, including NGO capacity building, social media expertise and training design and delivery. To model and practice integrating the use of social media tools and networked approaches to document, deliver, and share learning. There are different types of NGOS in the Arab World.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Rebbecca shared some lessons learned by “retro-fitting&# theory to their actual practice using this framework. As Marnie Webb put it, to participate in this network, you simply has to raise your hand and be willing to meet people in a bar to talk about social media and social change.

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Explore this definitive guide to learn more about Giving Tuesday, get great campaign ideas, and soak up some best practices. Giving Tuesday FAQs 15+ Surefire Giving Tuesday Campaign Ideas to Set You Up for Success Giving Tuesday Campaign Best Practices. Giving Tuesday Campaign Best Practices. Let’s get started! Request Demo.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Our team discovered that NGO leaders and staff responded instantly to WhatsApp messages vis-à-vis email. We emailed this glossary document to attendees and also WhatsApp’d the PDF, bridging the language barrier between those putting out tech tools and those using those tools. Ever since that experience, we WhatsApp documents to NGOs.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 17, 2006

While searching for examples of other women using blogs to document human rights abuses, I found Human Rights Watch , an NGO that investigates and exposes human rights violations and hold abusers accountable. You can challenge governments and those who hold power to end abusive practices and respect international human rights law.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 8, 2015

It’s impossible to apply Twitter best practices across all segments of the nonprofit sector because of the wide variety of causes and follower counts, but scientific analysis of Twitter clearly indicate that there is right way and a wrong way to use Twitter.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 8, 2007

Caitlin tells it like it is--the nitty gritty of starting up an NGO, and why she believes it is important to help the people you are serving to create the change they want to see, not to create the change for them. Sigida Keneyali means “Health in Our Homes” in Bambara, the most common language in Mali. mali health NGO empowerment

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 5, 2017

Note from Beth: Several years ago, I was got trained in design thinking facilitation methods using Luma and have incorporated these techniques into my consulting and training practice. This is exactly why the practices of Design Thinking and Systems Theory has enjoyed such welcome from the social sector.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

Workshop Ngo Feb 13 View more presentations from Beth Kanter. Finally, I taught two social media strategy workshops for NGO and CSR practitioners before having two days to get a taste of India and then a 24 hour journey home. . It always helps me improve practice. NGOS in India. This workshop was for the NGO audience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

There's an interesting post on the roles and behavior of online communities of practice. Alexandra Samuels has a terrific post on Best Practices for Nonprofits Using Web.2.0. So, do check out the Audio/Video Edition of the NGO-in-a-Box which includes a collection of Free and Open Source Software tools.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 11, 2023

Use “you” language. When you combine a story with your Core Number, you pack a real punch, so let the donor know they can participate in the same kind of feel-good story for a specific amount of money. Don’t tell the donor that your organization made the difference. Say “ You can help this mother and son find a temporary home.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

I created some template language to cut and paste into emails, skype/im pings, and thank you messaging, etc. I'm on the board of the ngo that I'm doing this campaign. What happens if you don't like the way the personal fundraiser has represented your NGO? What is the best practice here? What do you do?

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 10, 2006

It’s actually in three different languages, Chinese, Spanish and English. Their practice. Well, actually this organization, POWER, People Organized to Win Employment Rights , just came out with a great book called Towards Land Work and Power that’s super, super accessible. Their culture. Their method. It’s pretty cool.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 19, 2009

Since many Afghan NGOs are still in early stages of their documentation efforts, this was a significant opportunity to help groups as they develop and implement best practices. Martus is available in seven languages , including in Dari and Farsi which are commonly spoken in Afghanistan.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2007

Tara Hunt's reflection describes Twitter's value, attraction, and benefits while Andy Carvin looks at the potential value from an ngo perspective. The other big story in Kikono was Best Practices in MySpace pointed to by Solidariti blog. BeaconFire Consulting asks " What Language Can Your Bulk Email Too Speak ?"

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Bloomerang

APRIL 2, 2021

You have to know who you’re talking to, and you have to speak their language, and you have to gain their trust. So, yes, I think the Global NGO Technology Report found the majority of nonprofits do agree social media is effective for creating brand awareness. So we’re going to talk a lot about that today.

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