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Social Media Pictures

NCE Social Media

Recently, one of the most repressive governments, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, North Korea to you and me, allowed two reporters to begin to use Instagram to share photos of their country. How would you want to do a video using Vine or YouTube ? But not everyone knows that yet.

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Great News! The 2019 Global NGO Technology Report Has Secured Sponsorship

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Funraise customers include hundreds of organizations of all sizes, including National Wildlife Federation, Prostate Cancer Foundation, and Liberty in North Korea. No more clunky, cobbled-together solutions, or out-of-date hardware. Funraise has raised more than $13 million in venture capital to date.

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Case Study: How One Organization Raised over $500K through Millennials

Achieve

LiNK (Liberty in North Korea). is a human rights organization that physically rescues North Korean refugees and helps resettle them in South Korea or the United States so they can avoid being forcibly repatriated back to North Korea, where they can face harsh punishments as a result of illegally immigrating.

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Fundraising Meets the Power of Peer-To-Peer Campaigns

Achieve

Liberty in North Korea. , or LiNK, an organization based in California that works to rescue and resettle North Korean refugees. Similarly, during this year’s Giving Tuesday event, I had a number of chances to witness the power of peer-to-peer fundraising in action. One of them involved.

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Care2's Community Impacts Global Change

Care2

The Care2 community’s signatures not only highlighted causes, but also had a direct impact on global issues including the European Union’s vote to ban seal products, the passing of the American Clean Energy Security Act and the release of Euna Lee and Laura Ling from North Korea. ?

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[Opinion] Millennials and the Fight Against Hate

Achieve

Tensions with North Korea. Hate is not only a word that is being slung around in our everyday vernacular; it is now being expressed as the deeply divisive emotion that the word represents—and many people have felt the effects of this emotion. Restricted rights of women and the LGBTQ community. The horror of Charlottesville.

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Crowdsourcing Skills for Human Rights via Movements.org

Tech Soup Blog

David Keyes is very clear that the mission of Movements.org and in fact all of the Advancing Human Rights programs is to empower human rights activists in closed societies like Russia, China, Iran, Syria, and North Korea.

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5 Incredible Campaigns And What You Can Learn From Them

Achieve

Liberty in North Korea. LiNK is focused on helping North Korean refugees, which is a heavy and near impossible cause because of all of the roadblocks that they face on a daily basis. Below are a few examples of ways they have been effective in this approach. Make Your Audience Laugh.

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Mr. Jim Goes to Washington (and New York, and Nairobi, and Seoul, and Kampala, and Boston…)

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Of course, being in proximity to North Korea, one of the most dire countries in terms of respect for human rights, meant that this topic came up frequently. Google Ideas was there in force, and even as a longtime security geek I learned some things by attending one of their training sessions.

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The Future of Fundraising Is Peer-to-Peer

Achieve

Liberty in North Korea. , or LiNK, an organization based in California that works to rescue and resettle North Korean refugees. Similarly, during this year’s Giving Tuesday event, I had a number of chances to witness the power of peer-to-peer fundraising in action. One of them involved.

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Adobe Creative Cloud Giveaway for Nonprofits at 17NTC!

Tech Soup Blog

This Sweepstakes is void for organizations in Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan, and Syria ("U.S. Embargo Countries"). Important warning for persons outside the U.S. and Canada (who do not live in the U.S. Embargo Countries): Sponsor is offering this Sweepstakes from the State of California, U.S.

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Mobile Storytelling: An Evolving Story

NTEN

When I showed Google Earth for the first time to my dad on an iPad, the first thing he did was to look for the house he grew up in, deep in North Korea, having left it behind some 60 years ago during the Korean War.

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Martin Luther King Day - Let Freedom Ring

VisionLink

We see the tragic consequences when fear and hatred win out over the Golden Rule in places like the Middle East, Iran, North Korea, Darfur, Zimbabwe, and Myanmar. As the world grows smaller, as we get to know each other, our 50,000 year old fear and hatred of others is bumping up against 50,000 years of the Golden Rule.

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