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Please Donate to Help Nepal’s Earthquake Victims Now

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The devastating earthquake in Nepal has killed more than 2,400 people and injured about 5,900, residents so far (as reported in the NY Times on Sunday). Please donate to help Nepal’s Earthquake Victims now. earthquake in Nepal. Robert has been working the last year or so from Nepal.

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How Investing In Ongoing Nonprofit Professional Development Keeps Fundraisers On The Ball And Ahead Of The Game

Kindful

Before this, there were no motivations for fundraisers in Nepal,” Dhakal explains. “It Dhakal’s efforts helped grow fundraising in Nepal into a sustainable system and boost the culture of giving not only for individual fundraisers and for individual organizations, but also for the country as well.

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Can love change the world? I hope so!

Amy Sample Ward

If we focus our work on feeding the hungry, for example, do we actually create a system in which we rely on people needing our services? I have talked many times before about the way we as nonprofit organizations and changemakers set our goals. (If What would happen, instead, if organizations focused on eliminating hunger?)

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Office 365 Brings Remote Staff Together

Tech Soup

Last year, my colleague Eamon Stack of ENCLUDE Ireland (TechSoup Global's partner NGO in Ireland) wrote a great blog post about his experience helping Foundation Nepal overhaul its technology infrastructure. Like Concern, Foundation Nepal has field workers in very remote areas with limited Internet access.

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Foundation Supported Social Enterprises (FOSE): Expanding the Use of Program Related Investments

ASU Lodestar Center

The foundation opened in 2005 when Nick Simons, a great lover and visitor of Nepal died. Nick Simons was keenly aware of the medical needs in high altitude low income countries such as Nepal. They formed Gradian Health Systems. The Nick Simons Foundation did not have a large staff.

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Foundation Supported Social Enterprises (FOSE): Expanding the Use of Program Related Investments (part 2)

ASU Lodestar Center

The foundation opened in 2005 when Nick Simons, a great lover and visitor of Nepal died. Nick Simons was keenly aware of the medical needs in high altitude low income countries such as Nepal. They formed Gradian Health Systems. The Nick Simons Foundation did not have a large staff.

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How Emerging Tech Is Changing Disaster Relief

Tech Soup

Drones in Nepal. After the destructive earthquake in Nepal, drones provided crucial assistance to aid workers. Symantec System Recovery 2013 R2. But, as this video below demonstrates, many of the competing bipedal (two-legged) robots have trouble keeping balance. We've still got a ways to go. Backup Exec 15.