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Weekly update from PND

Candid

As part of the agreement, both organizations will target financial institutions serving the needs of vulnerable populations and provide financial capital and training in support of the development of the education sector in the target markets.

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See how digital games have big impact at the 12th Annual Games for Change Festival in NYC!

NTEN

Highlights include veteran game designer, Colleen Macklin, who will show how her games with the Red Cross bolstered climate change-related disaster preparedness in Senegal and Nambia, and Pulitzer Prize-winning authors, Nick Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, whose work in games, film, and print has made millions aware of human rights issues in the U.S.

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Keep your New Year's Resolution with NetSquared

Tech Soup Blog

Dakar, Senegal: L’atelier de mise en place du réseau net2 Dakar. Dakar, Senegal: L’atelier de mise en place du réseau net2 Dakar. With 50 groups in 20 countries there’s probably a Net2Local group near you, but if there isn’t ( sob !) we’d love to help you start a new meetup. January Events.

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Sprint How You Can: Salesforce.org Commons Fosters True Community Collaboration by Going Hybrid

Saleforce Nonprofit

We’ve since welcomed virtual Sprinters from 25+ countries around the globe, including Australia, Japan, Senegal, Ethiopia, and Brazil. So as travel began to pick up and in-person events resumed, we wanted to find a way to combine the spirit of face-to-face collaboration with the inclusive access that virtual provides.

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Nonprofits and Politicos Takes SXSW 2010 By Storm

Care2

SMS And Social Change: Lessons From Senegal Terra Weikel, UNICEF. Evolution, Creation and Extinction (of the organization) Ted Fickes, The Wilderness Society. Non-Profits and Social Media: Not the Usual Suspects David Neff, American Heart Association. The New Mainstream - Journalists Redefining Their Industry Gina Cooper, Cooper Strategies.

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Artivist Film Festival & Awards

Have Fun - Do Good

THE SHAPE OF WATER (1:10) Dir - Kum-Kum Bhavnani The Shape of Water, narrated by Susan Sarandon, interweaves the contradictions and joys of everyday life for Khady, Bilkusben, Oraiza, Dona Antonia, and Gila in Brazil, India, Jerusalem, and Senegal.

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Fueling Progress Towards Gender Equality and the 2030 Global Goals

Connection Cafe

And, in our initial six pilot countries (which include Colombia, India, Indonesia, Kenya and Senegal) we plan to take a deeper look, using national data, research and story-gathering to understand where progress is being made and where it is lagging. . The future for Equal Measures 2030.

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Telling Your Story: NetSquared #Storymakers2017 Workshops for Nonprofits

Tech Soup Blog

Dakar, Senegal: Concours de Présentation des Projets. Bunda, Tanzania: Microsoft Cloud Computing. Sunday, September 3, 2017. Cotonou, Benin: L'Utilité des Logiciels de TechSoup dans la Progression d nos ONG dans le Monde. Monday, September 4, 2017. Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso: Monthly Meeting of Local Members.

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Vote for Your CNN Hero: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Impact

Have Fun - Do Good

Viola Vaughn "A group of failing schoolchildren in Kaolack, Senegal, once asked Viola Vaughn to help them pass their classes. Maria Ruiz "Several times a week, Maria Ruiz of El Paso, Texas, crosses the border into Juarez, Mexico, bringing food, clothing and toys for hundreds of impoverished children and their families."

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Igniting the (Beacon)fire at South by Southwest

Allegiance Group

SMS And Social Change: Lessons From Senegal. A Different Documentary: Online Storytelling & Social Change. Boyd Neil, Hill & Knowlton Canada. The Socially Conscious Geek: Makin’ Money While Doin’ Good. Leif Utne, Zanby. Terra Weikel, UNICEF.

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Lessons on Policymakers, Gender Equality, and Data

Connection Cafe

Last week at the United Nations General Assembly , Equal Measures 2030 launched a multi-country policymaker survey that explored perceptions of progress on gender-related issues and access to and use of data to inform decisions.

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nfp 2.0 » What does Second Life success look like for non-profits?

Rebooting Charity

You can milk a cow destined for Kenya, pat a sheep needed by a community in Senegal, and even sit in a toilet latrine, required to improve hygiene facilities in a school in real-world Armenia.

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2012 Nonprofit Technology Year in Review

Tech Soup Blog

eTransform Africa also describes the work of technology hubs or incubators across Africa such as iHub and NaiLab in Kenya, Hive CoLab, and AppLab in Uganda, Activspaces in Cameroon, BantaLabs in Senegal, Kinu in Tanzania or infoDev's mLabs in Kenya and South Africa.

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[VIDEO] Emerging Trends in Nonprofit Social Media Marketing

Bloomerang

Peace Corps in Senegal in West Africa. I’m happy to send it to you afterwards. I like to say that I started my social media journey, and this is going to be surprising to many of you, when I served in the U.S. So this is really how I discovered the principles of communications and marketing. So I was a journalism major in college.