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Weekly Member Round Up: New and Old Technology for Good!

NTEN

The Educational Development Center is helping nearly 150,000 students in Sudan receive a better education, using a relatively old technology: the radio. Treesaver is a new, open source web platform that uses HTML5 to create narrative experiences with text, words, and pictures. Have more news to share?

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From a Millennial: Nobody Wants to Hear Your Stories. We Want to See Them.

Connection Cafe

The pictures told a story. One of the most captivating pictures that we came across was actually an ad for a nonprofit – charity:water. Having spent several months in Southern Sudan, I know the struggles that people have to find clean drinking water. But, lest your nonprofit organization forget, a picture is worth 1,000 words.

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5 Steps for Beginners in Peer-to-Peer Fundraising

Tech Soup

For example, in 2014 WOD for Water raised $212,174 around a CrossFit workout event to bring clean water to villages in India, Cambodia, and south Sudan. Pictures, videos, and text to help share your story, and one clear ask. People often organize into teams to participate and raise funds, and physical action is required.

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Adobe Creative Cloud Giveaway for Nonprofits at 17NTC!

Tech Soup

Take a picture at our Booth 217 using our #TechedUp sign. Take a picture at TechSoup Booth 217 using the #TechedUp sign. Take a picture at TechSoup Booth 217 using the #TechedUp sign. This Sweepstakes is void for organizations in Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan, and Syria ("U.S. This is a $600 market value!

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Empowering Refugees: Interview with Kjerstin Erickson of FORGE

Have Fun - Do Good

One of those individuals is Paul Ohisa, and he's a refugee from Sudan. His dream was to go back to Sudan, and to contribute and help rebuild. And he's come up with his plan, his social entrepreneurship plan, to bring attention to the refugee plight and also to contribute to rebuilding in Sudan. It had been bombed.

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Shouldn’t the Word Phone Be Removed from Mobile? The Use of the Mobile by Nonprofits for Development

Tech Soup

Print pictures. Sudan caused a 0.12% increase in the country’s GDP growth rate, partly. So w hat else can you do with a mobile? Short Message Service (SMS). Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS). MP3 player. Get directions. Have your text messages read back to you. Scan in a business card. Text message a landline phone. Alarm clock.

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9 Captivating Content Ideas to Enhance Your Nonprofit Blog

Get Fully Funded

Photos of people are particularly compelling, so gather pictures of volunteers, beneficiaries, and community members. The Doctors Without Borders blog has plenty of examples of this type of captivating storytelling, including a gripping story about people fleeing violence in Sudan.