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Nepal Earthquake Roundup: Emergency Fundraising Attention Cycle

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

” Robert Rosenthal, who has lived in Katmandu over the past year, said that large networks like the one that Global Giving is supporting do this level of coordination on a smaller basis, working with local grantees on the ground to create projects and direct funds while collaborating with communication teams to keep the story alive.

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Tech Across Your Org: Program and Fundraising Innovation Sprung from an Internal Technology Project

NTEN

In the early years, we were working in China, Nepal, Cambodia, and Ethiopia, where we now purify water for over 200,000 kids daily. We knew we would ultimately be in 16 countries by the year 2020, which meant that tracking, monitoring, and evaluating projects would become more complicated by the day.

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The Commons Introduces Grassroots Mobile Survey

Saleforce Nonprofit

Trish Perkins (TP): I was working with a disability nonprofit in Nepal that wanted to put together a database of people who needed their services. How has participating with the Commons program helped this project? The app can also work for every stage of a data collection project. What inspired you to share what you had built?

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How Drones Are Being Used to Benefit Humankind

Tech Soup

However, drones are also being used for humanitarian purposes, such as delivering aid, tracking environmental conditions, and helping out in disaster relief. Tracking storms. Easily the most prominent drone delivery project is the Matternet project, which is building a drone-based package delivery service.

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Ushahidi Develops Innovative Tools for Nonprofits and Others Working to Benefit the Public

Tech Soup

Since then, it has since logged, mapped, and tracked more than 14,000 reports of petrochemical pollution. During the early days of our Netsquared project , we held big annual conferences to showcase and fund innovative tech for good. LABB created an Oil Spill Crisis Map in response to the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010.

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Posts from the Skoll World Forum

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

He tracked me down to explain what we were doing in our new environmental project! They are definitely tackling market failure in the publishing industry: in Nepal they are now the second largest publisher of children's books in Nepali. The best part has been talking to the other Skoll entrepreneurs.

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[PODCAST] Broaden Your Message With Influencer-Driven Campaigns | Ft. Jeanette Russell

NonProfit Hub

Start tracking your organization’s data. So that’s a very powerful tactic and one example we have is we had a customer who was trying to stop a project in the Grand Canyon and they put in the search term, Grand Canyon and they just started listening for people talking about the Grand Canyon. Her first tip?