Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 12, 2011

As I mentioned in my previous two blogs about my Africa trip of last July, I had the pleasure of meeting many interesting people and learning about numerous exciting, cool projects during that three week long visit to Kenya, Tanzania and Ghana. The good news is that trachoma can effectively be eliminated.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 30, 2017

"Meetings" come in diverse and innovative formats like Mississauga, Canada's Geek Talk — Coffee and Convo; Pangani, Tanzania's Social Media Surgery ; and Birmingham, United Kingdom's Summer Tech for Good Social in a local pub. Bunda, Tanzania: Microsoft Cloud Computing. Join us at your local group.

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APRIL 22, 2010

Make sure to watch the brief video to see how EpicChange has impacted the lives of many children in Arusha, Tanzania using tools like Twitter, YouTube and Facebook to raise money, connect people with a cause and tell their story.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 28, 2009

the question of ownership will be directly tied to who has access to the necessary tools to build on the "land." "Hujambo from Tanzania! I’m SO EXCITED to write you because I couldn’t wait to share: on Saturday, in the Moivaro village of Arusha, Tanzania, in the shadow of Mt.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 28, 2009

the question of ownership will be directly tied to who has access to the necessary tools to build on the "land." "Hujambo from Tanzania! I’m SO EXCITED to write you because I couldn’t wait to share: on Saturday, in the Moivaro village of Arusha, Tanzania, in the shadow of Mt.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 1, 2021

Facebook fundraising tools are designed to keep people on the site rather than send them to a crowdfunding platform or other website. Despite the downsides, Facebook can be a powerful fundraising tool. As a first step, you need to sign your organization up for Facebook fundraising tools. Your organization gets the full donation.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2012

Their Tweetsgiving campaigns were fundraisers benefiting Mama Lucy’s school in Tanzania and connected the students to their supporters through Twitter. Philanthropy has been able to move into the real time web, too. Another great example is Epic Change. We can’t only invest in a product.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Here’s a summary of a few of the top ideas: AgriTextBot Info Hub: A tool for farmers that responds to localized questions and provides up-to-date, real-time information on topics from market pricing to weather indicators and farming support, through a guided conversation and accessible via a feature phone. Dun-Ying Vicki Yu.

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Global Giving

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

Featured Photo: Solar Suitcases for Safer Childbirth in Tanzania by WE CARE Solar. Read the supplement and parent publication before undertaking a pro bono technology project and refer to it as needed for resources and advice throughout the project. Get a copy of the pro bono planning supplement delivered to your inbox now. Download Now.

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JUNE 3, 2011

Katya Andresen highlights research from eMarketer that reminds us email is still the winning tool for sharing content online! an SMS-based initiative to promote user-driven media in Tanzania. Avi Kaplan from Rad Campaign shares a great round up of the Best Cloud Tools for your Nonprofit on Care2 's Frogloop blog.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 1, 2005

Nicole Wallace, the tech reporter for the Chronicle of Philanthropy, who does a great job, just wrote an article on new business plan software that the Social Enterprise Alliance has helped develop, entitled New Technology Tools Aid Business Plans. People who have heard me speak know how excited I am about the potential of cell phones.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 3, 2015

Check out our newest groups: * [NetSquared Tanzania]([link] in Tanga, Tanzania * [501 Tech Club Austin]([link] in Austin, TX * [Nonprofit Neighbors Tech Club]([link] in Kansas City, MO --> Upcoming Events. Yaoundé, Cameroon: Cloud Network: A Tool for Open Data and Smart Visualisation Of Data. Friday, April 10, 2015.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 1, 2015

NetSquared Tanzania in Tanga, Tanzania. Portland, Oregon: Low-Cost, High-Impact Technology Tools. Nonprofit Neighbors Tech Club in Kansas City, Missouri. 501 Tech Club Austin in Austin, Texas. NetSquared Mississauga in Mississauga, Canada. NetSquared Zambia in Lusaka, Zambia. Upcoming Events. Wednesday, June 3, 2015.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 3, 2009

The conversations inevitably get stymied around Twitter - which is no surprise, as every nonprofit is trying to figure out what the tool means for them. It's all of those things, but it's also something else: a real-time fundraising tool! A channel for promoting your mission? A monitor for listening to chatter about your cause?

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

Tweetsgiving is using micro-blogging tool Twitter to raise money for a classroom in Tanzania. Here's a smidge from his post: If you haven't heard about it yet, be sure to check out TweetsGiving , a project of the nonprofit Epic Change. Along the way, they're also compiling a log of what Twitter users are thankful for this year.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 20, 2009

A couple of great examples are Twestival which brought together thousands of twitter members all over the world and raised over $250K for Charity:Water and TweetsGiving which raised over $11K last in 48 hours to fund the building of a classroom in Tanzania. You should follow Frogloop on Twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 3, 2008

Avi Kaplan has published some basic stats from the recent Tweetsgiving Campaign that raised over $10,000 in 48 hours right before and during Thanksgiving to build a classroom in Tanzania. In the menatime, here's a few twitter stat tools from Brian Solis's awesome list. The holy grail metrics is missing? Twitt(url)y.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 1, 2017

Sometimes the best way to get started with a new tool is to have a guide sitting next to you giving directions. In Peru, the group explored how Azure can help NGOs and in Tanzania , people learned about the concept of cloud productivity services. That's why TechSoup supports a global network of tech trainers called NetSquared.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 13, 2015

From this moment on, I truly felt an emotional connection to the foundation's work in Kenya and Tanzania and appreciated the reality of these everyday problems that are so often looked over in favor of more dramatic conflict. I don't think I have been more blown away by a technological advance than this one.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Communities on both platforms were clearly not part of the development and communications process, yet they were actively using the platform (for example, a grant from ideablob helped Epic Change implement a technology lab in a school in Tanzania ). Do you know what the plans are for the tools you are using? What’s Next.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

So, now we have another holiday twitter event - Tweetsgiving , the goal of which is to put the giving back in Thanksgiving by spreading stories of gratitude across the Twitterverse.and across the world. And, course, to raise money for a school in Tanzania.

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Tech Soup

JULY 8, 2011

data and governance, profiting from social change projects, and access to data and tools. Broadly, the topics discussed included democracy, value of. mobile technologies, distribution of power and wealth, transparency in. Below are some quotes from the conference: “Connection technologies could and should disrupt and redistribute power.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

Instead of saying in the middle of the campaign “we need $X”, they share an interview with one of the beneficiaries, or invite people to connect directly via twitter with children in Tanzania who attend the school funded through the campaign. Lastly, in order to train the community to drive, you have to share your tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 7, 2009

I want you, whether you’re in the Congo or Darfur or if you’re in Iran or if you’re in Tanzania, Kosovo…you shoot that story like it’s your mother, your brother, your sister, your father and your cousin and you tell that in that way because that’s actually the road, I think, to not only clarity and truth and understanding.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2014

My colleague, Stacey Monk , founder of Epic Change and one of the pioneers of peer-to-peer fundraising efforts incorporating social media, shared this NPR story about a Kickstarter Campaign by a Gideon , 15 year old boy who is from in Tanzania Africa. At age 7, he knew his passion was space and wanted to be a rocket ship pilot.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 20, 2008

What are the tools that they are using to work on this? In Tanzania, only something like 3.5%; in Sudan, it's only about 1.5%, and even in India, which we think of as being more developed, it's only about 10% of the people who actually have a job in the formal private sector. Britt Bravo:What is KickStart doing?

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 9, 2014

First up was Joseph Tanigawa from Code for San Francisco (our local chapter of Code for America), who presented a nifty tool for bridging the digital divide. The app integrates with both Eventbrite and Meetup, favorite tools among nonprofit community organizers. Let's dive in. Identifying Nearby Resources. LocalFreeWeb.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

Tweetsgiving is 48-hour event to encourage people to express their gratitude using online tools and at face-to-face meet-ups. This two-day event, scheduled for November 24-26, will also invite people to donate to Epic Change. And there are a lot more ways to participate. Be sure to check out the Twitterkids. And there are a lot more.

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Candid

AUGUST 3, 2021

For instance, our findings have been useful tools to advocate for more funding for disability rights [3] and to highlight the ways in which feminist movements could be more effectively resourced. That said, our research has long provided one of the most comprehensive snapshots of human rights funding. Tracking race and ethnicity.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 18, 2012

An example is Charity Wallet , an online tool that simplifies the online giving process for donors who support more than one organization, which was launched during the event! TechSoup hosted one in September and our office in Warsaw, Fundacja TechSoup also hosted a hackathon this year.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

The service has 17 million users and is transforming the way wealth is distributed in poor countries, which now include Tanzania, India, and Afghanistan as well as Kenya. HootSuite is an all-encompassing social media dashboard and it’s a tool I rely on at TechSoup.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 1, 2006

Jane Goodall Institute's Geoblog : The Jane Goodall Insitute has created a geoblog, the Gombe Chimpanzee Blog , Using Google Earth, the geoblog allows readers/viewers to view Gombe National Park in Tanzania while they read entries by Emily Wroblewski, a field researcher who is studying the Gombe Chimpanzees.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 13, 2011

The human rights team trains groups how to use their number one asset, information about human rights violations, as a strategic tool to advance their social justice mission. We’re helping the environmental movement become more effective through using Miradi to manage its conservation projects and to better steward environmental assets.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

Less than 24 hours ago, Epic Change launched its TweetsGiving 2009 , a 48-hour charity event to encourage people to express their gratitude using online tools and at face-to-face meet-ups. This two-day event, which ends on Thanksgiving, also invites people to donate to Epic Change. . The Maturation of Peer-to-Peer Fundraising.

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