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Building Common Cause Zambia's Digital Capacity

Tech Soup

For many organizations, a main barrier to digital transformation is the lack of resources to assess what they need and take action on the areas that need investment. TechSoup's Digital Resilience Program addresses these challenges by working with funders to build the digital capacity of the nonprofits they work with.

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How Leaders Use Four Workarounds To Tackle Complex Problems

Eric Jacobsen Blog

The Next Best : Repurposing resources. Let me illustrate with an example I learned from Zambia: many medicines cannot be found in remote regions of Sub-Saharan Africa because of hard-to-solve bottlenecks in healthcare, such as poor infrastructure and logistics systems. The Roundabout : Disrupting self-reinforced behaviors.

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Great reads from around the web on March 17th

Amy Sample Ward

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). Thanks for the post, Marcia!

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Geoff Livingston Guest Post: Follow @childfund and Help Feed Children

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

These efforts will directly benefit children in Gambia, Zambia, Kenya and Ethiopia. A goat for a family farm in Zambia. Dubbed a “local blogging guru” by the Washington Post, Geoff’s award-winning book “Now is Gone” was released in 2007 and has been cited by the Wall Street Journal as a valuable resource for social media.

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Announcing Our Second Impact Labs Cohort on Zero Hunger: Supporting Small-Scale Farmers Globally

Saleforce Nonprofit

Ultimately, the cohort decided to move forward with ideas that bring multiple resources together in a user-friendly manner through SMS or USSD. We generated ideas for features like crop-specific guidance, multi-language accessibility, real-time market pricing data, and access to peer-to-peer training and resources. Dun-Ying Vicki Yu.

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A software integration may be the solution you’ve been searching for

EveryAction

By saving you time and money, integrations will free up resources and energy so you can focus on what really matters. About the author Anne Guillen, MPH, is a returned Peace Corps volunteer (RPCV) who served in Zambia and worked as a nonprofit impact director in East and West Africa for over five years. The impact on your mission.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Best Wishes for Healthy, Happy, and Social 2008!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

But over the past few months, I have noticed, like Amy Gahran , that as I've engaged more in using Twitter, I'm connecting with resources and people more on Twitter than with social bookmarking tools. The main reason I'm still tagging is for retrieval when asked for a resource on and to write this summary. And if you???re

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