Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

These are exciting times for everyone who’s been working to meet the accessibility imperative, as we are witnessing global movements that will increase accessible publishing and create new and better opportunities for people with disabilities. In my talk, I highlighted three global movements towards increasing accessible publishing.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 17, 2013

27: World NGO Day — #WorldNGODay. 8: International Women’s Day — #IntWomensDay or #IWD. 12: International Day for Street Children — #StreetChildrenDay. 12: International Day for Street Children — #StreetChildrenDay. 16: National Bike to Work Day — #BikeToWorkDay.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

Many small NGOs are also unaware of the services and resources offered to the NGO community by TechSoup Global , SANGONeT , NASSCOM Foundation , Meedan , and FrontlineSMS. Before each training I review the Web presence for each NGO in attendance. However,ngo and.ong will be available soon.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 10, 2011

T, December 10th, the international community is observing Human Rights Day to commemorate the 63rd anniversary of the creation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. First, in partnership with Colombian NGO Corporación Punto de Vista, we assessed a methodology for studying conflict-related sexual violence in the country.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2014

I’m just back from a trip to Europe where I was part of the opening plenary at this year’s International Fundraising Congress outside of Amsterdam. (I I also keynoted the NGO track at the Internet Festival in Pisa, Italy (more about that in separate post later). Marcelo Iniarra (@marceloiniarra) October 17, 2014.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 7, 2017

I'm not a woman, but I am a wholehearted celebrant of International Women's Day. More About International Women's Day. International Women's Day came about in its current form in 1975. Jane Meseck , senior director of global programs at Microsoft Philanthropies. International NGO Leadership.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 8, 2010

A Policy Update from an engineer, Jim Fruchterman of Benetech June 8, 2010 The international copyright negotiations in Geneva around a proposed Treaty for the Visually Impaired (“TVI”) have been steadily heating up. Counterproposals have been made, governments have been engaging with rights holders, consumers and NGOs (or not!)

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 13, 2015

Current growth is occurring in parts of the world where “NGO” and “ONG” are commonly used terms and in regions where “nonprofit” and “charity” are more common, many nonprofits and charities are purchasing the domains (they are sold as a bundle) and having them forward to their.ORG website(s).

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

An increasing number of grantmakers give — or want to give — internationally in order to address social and economic issues that transcend national borders. Global giving appeals to grantmakers of all sizes and types, from family foundations with enduring legacies to new foundations exploring novel pathways of giving.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration assigns every vehicle a Vehicle Identification Number (or VIN). This is the problem that Foundation Center, GlobalGiving, GuideStar, and TechSoup have set out to solve by creating BRIDGE (Basic Registry of Identified Global Entities). Most of us take it for granted that the U.S.

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Candid

APRIL 14, 2022

Since March 11, when Candid last looked at the global philanthropic response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, human suffering and economic devastation has only increased. Candid continues to track the global philanthropic response to the crisis. National Christian Foundation. Here we share an update on what we know so far.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 30, 2012

The company stated that they will not be selling the dolls at stores, but instead will donate them to children's hospitals and other hospitals, as well as the National Alopecia Areata Foundation." ." The kids will have the option to remove the wigs and head coverings. Please help us select a winner for the Care2 Impact Prize! "We

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2012

I’m here at the Dead Sea in Jordan where I delivered the key note for the E-mediat Networking Conference, “New Media for the Networked NGO.” 83% of participants are applying their social media skills to engage local and global communities. I told the NGOs were “fabulous.”

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

The 36th Annual Nonprofit Organizations Institute will feature nationally recognized experts from private foundations, public charities, law, finance, and government discussing the latest tax, legislative and governance issues affecting nonprofit organizations. National LGBTQ Task Force / Detroit, MI / $500. Fundraising & Grants.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 30, 2010

In the hallways, you’re as likely to run into the head of an international NGO, as CEO of a Fortune 100 company, as a renowned professor as the foreign minister of a major country. In the morning, I attended a session put on by the Young Global Leaders with six interesting proposals. Each hour there’s something memorable.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 29, 2010

We want to give people an opportunity to really develop, innovate, and preserve their own culture." -- Tom Aageson, co-founder, Global Center for Cultural Entrepreneurship A week, or so ago I interviewed my Dad, Tom Aageson, for a special Father's Day show on the Big Vision Podcast. I've posted an edited transcript of the interview below.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 14, 2011

During the month of October, join TechSoup.org and the TechSoup Global Network for our Cloud Computing Worldwide campaign. Check back throughout the month for blog posts, webinars, and dispatches from around the world on cloud computing for nonprofits, NGOs, and public libraries. NASSCOM Foundation's Survey of NGO Cloud Readiness.

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VisionLink

JANUARY 16, 2010

The American Red Cross is providing food, water, temporary shelter, medical services and emotional support, coordinated through the International Red Cross. • International Medical Corps is assembling a team of first responders and resources to provide lifesaving medical care and other emergency services to survivors of the earthquake.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 16, 2012

Richard’s case has been making the rounds in the TechSoup Global network, most recently at TechSoup Canada’s blog. He is director of programmes at CTT, which is our TechSoup Global partner in the UK. Richard Cooper of Charity Technology Trust (CTT) in the U.K. But is that the end of the story?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 5, 2020

Large national and international nonprofits are often ahead of the curve. According to the Global NGO Technology Report , 44% of nonprofits, NGOs, and charities worldwide use WordPress.org as their content management system (CMS) for their website ( 7% use Drupal and 3% use Joomla ). that your nonprofit uses.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 3, 2011

During the month of October, join TechSoup.org and the TechSoup Global Network for our Cloud Computing Worldwide campaign. Check back throughout the month for blog posts, webinars, and dispatches from around the world on cloud computing for nonprofits, NGOs, and public libraries. ATN is an NGO association of over 2,000 telecenters.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

“Yet while measurement is critical to making progress in global health, it’s very hard to do well. A recent national survey of Ethiopia’s vaccination coverage reported vastly different results fromthe government’s own estimates. ” 2. Use Measurement To Improve Results.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

This post originally appeared on the Netsquared blog and was authored by Bari Samad, an NGO domain expert for NetSquared. SAP , a TechSoup Global donor partner and a leader in enterprise software applications partnered with the UNFPA to unveil two interactive population dashboards to mark the milestone.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

If you don't have a local group (I can help fix that problem! ), there are also free online guides and a global Twitter chat October 5 using the hashtag #storymakers2017. The targets need to be linked like so: --> Jump to events in North America , or go international with events in. The link need to be like so: Africa.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2007

David Saski from Global Voices summarized her presentation: Dee Dee's 10 minute introduction to why she blogs and what she got out of it put a big smile on my face. Yet, quite contrast to another view of mine, Cambodia is not in a very need of BLOG or modern Technology while more than half of the nation???s

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Tech Soup

MAY 7, 2013

This is similar to the success of projects like Restart Romania in which social activists got help to develop online tools to address corruption in high places, and also a national website for tracking medication shortages in Romania. Now the bad news: the international NGO sector saw a decline in online giving. Social Media.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 19, 2009

After meeting her at the Global Engagement Summer last spring, I knew I wanted to grab her for an interview before she became too famous. FORGE serves 60,000 refugees in three different refugee camps in Southern Africa, and is an official operating partner of the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR ).

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Tech Soup

JUNE 20, 2014

This offer is international. It’s a new international charity classification system that will pave the way for better grantmaking, especially online and international philanthropy. based National Center for Charitable Statistics and adopted by the IRS back in the pre-Web 1980s. Find eligibility information here.

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Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

We need a combination of political action and big personal changes to get the global community moving forward to protect our home. Leading organisations like the UN are telling us unanimously that we need to act now with global systematic change in order to save the planet. It’s not just about institutional change.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 10, 2006

We also have a global justice training manual that was written after 9/11, and then we have our training for trainers manual which is exactly the curriculum for our training for trainers program. We have a political education workshop manual that we utilize for our introductory level workshop. Spending time with my family. It’s pretty cool.

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Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

We need a combination of political action and big personal changes to get the global community moving forward to protect our home. Leading organisations like the UN are telling us unanimously that we need to act now with global systematic change in order to save the planet. It’s not just about institutional change.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 23, 2013

This is similar to the success of projects like Restart Romania in which social activists got help to develop online tools to address corruption in high places, and also a national website for tracking medication shortages in Romania. Now the bad news: the international NGO sector saw a decline in online giving. Social Media.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 4, 2010

Melinda Kramer: Women's Earth Alliance is a global organization and we work around the world uniting women who are on the front lines of environmental causes. MK: One of the highlights for me was the Global Peers program. The Global Peers will be reporting out on the successes of the women in communities throughout Sub-Saharan Africa.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Odds are that a great number of important issues facing our nation will be mentioned in the State of the Union Address and almost every nonprofit, no matter their mission, will hear their issue(s) addressed. Must-Read Resource: Limits on Political Campaigning for 501(c)(3) Nonprofits.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Odds are that a great number of important issues facing our nation will be mentioned in the State of the Union Address and almost every nonprofit, no matter their mission, will hear their issue(s) addressed. Must-Read Resource: Limits on Political Campaigning for 501(c)(3) Nonprofits.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 23, 2006

This week's Solutionary Woman is 24-year-old Heddy Nam, the Associate to the Chief Operating Officer of Amnesty International USA and co-founder of Never Again , an international network of young people working for peace. Heddy also writes for the Global Youth Fund blog. Describe the work you do for Amnesty International.

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