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TechSoup Local Impact Map Profile: Nonprofits Back to School — In Brazil

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Education is a major focus for nonprofits and NGOs, accounting for 9% of NGO activity worldwide. UNESCO views NGOs' role in fundamental economic development as crucial, especially in countries where governments are unable to adequately educate schoolchildren. Even in the U.S., spanhidden.

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Storymakers 2016 Winners

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Then imagine how this teaching can impact children's lives, transforming their journey through life. Best Library Story — Libraries Transform Teaser. Libraries have fans, tons of fans. " That's what the Daviess County Public Library shows in its Libraries Transform Teaser.

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TechSoup Local Impact Map Profile: Nonprofits Back to School — In Brazil

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Education is a major focus for nonprofits and NGOs, accounting for 9% of NGO activity worldwide. views NGOs' role in fundamental economic development as crucial, especially in countries where governments are unable to adequately educate schoolchildren. Even in the U.S.,

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Need Answers: LinkedIn Has Them

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Much of the “good” done throughout history has been financed by what one could call “repentant sinners,” such as Carnegie with his libraries, funded by the exploitation of labor in the days of the robber barons. So, when Geri offered up this second post about nonprofits and LinkedIn, I couldn’t resist.

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SAP Gives Back

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SAP is helping to make a difference in the nonprofit and library community through their donation program here at TechSoup. They contribute curriculum ideas, teaching, and even an interactive social network so that members of their virtual university community can participate in webinars, blogs, and peer-to-peer coaching.

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What is your “Individual Social Responsibility (ISR)?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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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The Networked Nonprofit in Kenya

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I’ve just spent the last couple of days in Nairobi, Kenya because I’m a board member of an NGO based here, Ushahidi , an organization that builds tools for democratizing information and increasing transparency. Jessica Colaco places books in the iHub Community Library. I don’t teach that way.

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