Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 5, 2020

They have the resources to hire and consult highly-skilled website design firms and graphic designers. Use a top-rated Content Management System (CMS). It takes great skill to know when less is more in terms of text and calls-to-action. Below are 10 website design best practices specifically for the nonprofit sector.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 7, 2006

They partner with a range of NGOs to create an ongoing community video unit to support the NGO's programs by placing a full-time trainer in the NGO for a one-year period. At the end of the year, the NGO has the skills and capacity to continue producing community videos.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

Whether building a business or pursuing higher education, BITS maintains that all participants greatly benefit from skills acquired through their peer mentorship, such as research, writing, problem solving, concept development, money management, public speaking, and sales presentations. " A Do-It-Yourself Solution.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

Whether building a business or pursuing higher education, BITS maintains that all participants greatly benefit from skills acquired through their peer mentorship, such as research, writing, problem solving, concept development, money management, public speaking, and sales presentations. " A Do-It-Yourself Solution.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 27, 2005

My sister was working for an NGO as a volunteer agriculturist in Cambodia and encouraged me to take a job there. Tell us about your work in Cambodia with the NGO, Mlup Baitong. How does your NGO use technology to support your advocacy and education work? Mlup Baitong???s It is a benefit. Tell us about your blog?

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 10, 2007

Cultural entrepreneurs are change agents who leverage cultural knowledge and innovation to create thriving economic systems, like Lan Tran , the General Manager of Craft Link , a Vietnamese NGO organization that helps craft producers to improve their livelihoods through craft while helping to revive and promote traditional culture and skills.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

As Visiting Scholar at the Packard Foundation, one of the areas of inquiry as been Network Effectiveness which is part of Organizational Effectiveness area. The question has come up: Does leading networks require a different a skill set than leading organizations? TechSoup Global Summit: Action Session on Civil Society Resillence.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

as an excellent example of systems thinking that needed in the nonprofit techspace. NTEN blog points us to Code for Change this Summer , an opportunity for those with drupal skills to put them to good use. Someone tagged the NGO-in-a-Box with nptech just today. And some background reading. You've got to love their logo.

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Tech Soup

MAY 10, 2011

This is a guest post by Eamon Stack, CEO of ENCLUDE , which is TechSoup's NGO partner organization in Ireland. Eamon is a software engineer who is skilled in helping charities migrate to various cloud solutions that are appropriate to their IT staffing and budget. There were appalled at the plight of women and children.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 10, 2006

We focus on political education and organizer skills trainings, and we definitely think it is critical to see the fusion of those two things. Our political education starts on a very basic level by identifying the systems of oppression that we live under here in the United States. How do you prevent burn out? It’s pretty cool.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 19, 2009

It's really designed to make sure that all solutions are both emerging from the local community and tailored to the community's needs, and are developing the leadership skills of the most promising and emerging leaders at the same time. They're walking away with skills. We like to refer to it as a "people-powered" development process.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 29, 2010

East-West Technology, Culture & Food Exchange: Innovation and culture sharing with NGO counterparts in India. It can help people get a better education, learn new skills to earn a living wage, or start a business. East-West Technology, Culture & Food Exchange: Innovation and culture sharing with NGO counterparts in India.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 2, 2006

Viet-Ly: The biggest challenge is that some of the students have very low writing skills. Maybe it starts from students of color not having a great experience in the public education system so they kind of wonder, "Why would I go back there?" Britt: What are some of the biggest challenges of the work that you do?

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 16, 2009

If you are in charge of communications for your nonprofit or NGO, I recommend you read The She Spot: Why Women Are the Market for Changing the World, and How to Reach Them by Lisa Witter and Lisa Chen. What advice do you have for folks who want to use those skills for good? You're the COO of Fenton Communications. I thought, "Wow.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 2, 2016

The NetSquared organizers' events help TechSoup deliver on our shared mission of ensuring that civil society has the tools and skills necessary to use technology effectively. Victoria, British Columbia: NGO Ho Ho: A Holiday Party for Victoria's Nonprofits. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: DIY Donor Management System Selection.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 4, 2010

We had 15 teams from throughout West Africa coming to learn appropriate water technologies from West African women trainers, who are experts in these types of skills. They also learned business development skills. This training was tremendous. MK: One of the highlights for me was the Global Peers program.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2006

" But even more impressive was Lucy Hooberman's pledge: "I will mentor a minimum of two people in the developing world in the area of my skills base and expertise (media, communications, broadcasting , democratic media building, participatory media, community video). So, if you're Omidyar Network member, check it out.)

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Bloomerang

APRIL 2, 2021

Julia: All right, so all systems go. 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 nonprofits are building Alexa Amazon skills to reach new audiences and build relationships with potential donors. Steven: You got to do it.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 8, 2013

More and more nonprofit, library, and NGO offices worldwide will need to accommodate personally-owned tablets and smartphones on wireless networks in order to work and communicate. that can help anybody put together an attractive infographic without any special design skills. The Cloud in 2013.

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