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Available in العَرَبِيَّة, English, français, Português, and español, the 2017 Global NGO Technology Survey seeks to gain a better understanding of how NGOs and NPOs worldwide use technology to engage their supporters and donors. If you work at a NGO, nonprofit, or charity, please volunteer 4-7 minutes of your time to take the survey.
2011 has been an amazing year for human rights defenders. First, in partnership with Colombian NGO Corporación Punto de Vista, we assessed a methodology for studying conflict-related sexual violence in the country. The year 2011 has shown in many ways that the arc of history is bending toward justice.
Networked NGO. I spent my part of my birthday giving a presentation at the Packard Foundation Program Forum on translating the Networked Nonprofit into the Networked NGO. I spent my part of my birthday giving a presentation at the Packard Foundation Program Forum on translating the Networked Nonprofit into the Networked NGO.
How has this impacted individual giving to NGOs in Mexico? When we started Fondeadora in 2011 (the first creative crowdfunding platform in Mexico, renamed to Donadora in 2016), processing online payments was very difficult. Is online giving growing rapidly as well? Online giving is growing as fast as e-commerce.
My role over the past year been in the areas of: program design, design and delivery of a train the trainers intensive workshop in-country last March (see posts #1 , #2 , #3 ; #4 ); and develop and support the target NGO curriculum (intensive strategic and skills based curriculum). I’ll be Jordan and Morocco in March, 2011).
On Monday, I attended Compasspoint’s Nonprofit Day 2011. There is a nonprofit site called “ Admitting Failure ” that was created by the NGO Engineers Without Borders to avoid having mistakes replicated. On Monday, I attended Compasspoint’s Nonprofit Day 2011. Blame game or learning?
In late 2011, Funder’s Guide to Networks will synthesize the knowledge and publish a print publication for the broader field of philanthropy. How to support NGO leaders who want to work with a network mindset but run into obstacles, like their board? How to support networks of individuals and foster citizen engagement?
The visual story of the Bhopal Medical Appeal was subsequently awarded a Getty Grant for Good in 2011 after winning the 2011 Focus for Humanity NGO Assignment Fellowship. Masi’s images of The Bhopal Medical Appeal were featured on the New York Times Lens Blog and TIME Photos.
My days as an Ally are behind me, but the passion remains: in December of 2012 I found myself on a plane bound for a Tanzanian NGO. Toting my understanding of international development, and my NGO experience, I figured I knew to expect the unexpected. In fact, the NGO was led by them. Local problems, local solutions. I got this.
February 27, 2011. The group has an impressive breadth and depth of expertise, including NGO capacity building, social media expertise and training design and delivery. There are different types of NGOS in the Arab World. The other type of NGOS are those are born on Facebook and work in a networked way naturally.
This week we got a great comment from a TechSoup member to our Cloud Technology and the NGO Community blog post. In our TechSoup Global NGO cloud survey we found that people in nonprofits and libraries are indeed concerned about data security in the cloud the world over. Can cloud vendors simply close your account without notice?
Another great example of what Voluntweeters can do is the case of Red Cross voluntweeters responding to the more recent February 2011 Chicago blizzard. Disaster relief is one of the primary activities of the NGO sector, and crowdsourced volunteer digital disaster work is an important and expanding part of it.
This is a communique on the current state of cloud adoption in India from Prashant Pandit and Pooja Jayna from TechSoup Global's, NASSCOM Foundation BIGTech Program , which is an NGO committed to building ICT capacity in civil society in India. NASSCOM Foundation's Survey of NGO Cloud Readiness.
We proudly welcome NGO partners Vietnet-ICT and the Lin Centre in Vietnam, as well as ASEAN Foundation , Kopernik Marketplace , and YCAB Foundation in Indonesia to the TechSoup Global family. Our New NGO Partners in Vietnam. Our New NGO Partners in Indonesia. The technology is shipped directly to the local NGO.
states In the fall of 2011. TechSoup Global is also in the process of adding to the body of cloud research with our Global NGO Cloud Survey. We cordially invite nonprofits, NGOs, and libraries everywhere to take our survey, which is available in 21 languages. Primary Findings. NTEN surveyed 780 nonprofits across nine U.S.
Open Data in Aid Transparency — The organizers for this workshop, which will be held in Berlin on September 28 and 29, 2011, are OpenAid , Open Knowledge Foundation Germany , the Open Data Network , and the Böll Foundation. NGO representatives, parliamentarians, journalists, and. are planned.
By 2011, American women surpassed men in gaining college degrees , including advanced degrees. International NGO Leadership. In the U.S., the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) nearly passed in the late 1970s; it's been reintroduced in every session of Congress since 1982. Last year, U.S. women became the majority of law students.
With a mission to serve every NGO on the planet, we are constantly working on faster, more flexible, and relevant ways to do what we do in every corner of the world. Enter TechSoup Asia , newly launched in 2011 thanks to a generous grant from Microsoft! And we’re still at it.
nonprofits across eight states in 2011. TechSoup Global has conducted our own international NGO cloud survey across 88 countries and the results will be out in the early fall. Finally, if you haven’t seen it, I recommend NTEN’s 2012 State of the Nonprofit Cloud Report , which is based on survey results of U.S.
In Ghana, SAP is using their technology and volunteers in partnership with a leading NGO to help women create thriving businesses through the harvesting of shea nuts. Although one million people may seem like an enormous number, consider this: on October 31, 2011, the global population reached 7 billion. Seven Billion Actions.
In July 2011, TechSoup.org conducted a survey of nonprofits on their current use of cloud services, their plans for adopting cloud services, their expectations on costs, and their barriers to cloud adoption.
We’ve had multiple celebrations of the web in recent years: the 20 th anniversary of the first public web page in 2011 , another 20 th anniversary webpage anniversary in 2013 , and this month, the 25 th anniversary of the idea of the web. People are comparing this venture to Google’s Project Loon. The World Wide Web Turns 25.
Online revenue grew by 21 percent since 2011. Now the bad news: the international NGO sector saw a decline in online giving. Here are some key findings: Email list sizes are up by 15 percent. Monthly giving programs in particular have seen explosive growth, with revenue growing by 43 percent.
It has been in use in Europe since 2011. This years’ Nobel Prize for Peace has been awarded to one of our own - the technology oriented Dutch NGO, Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW). Patients can recognize simple objects , distinguish light from dark, and see people in front of them.
Online revenue grew by 21 percent since 2011. Now the bad news: the international NGO sector saw a decline in online giving. Here are some key findings: Email list sizes are up by 15 percent. Monthly giving programs in particular have seen explosive growth, with revenue growing by 43 percent.
According to the Global NGO Online Technology Report , Millennials are most inspired to give by social media. This article was originally published in 2011 and has been updated to reflect the latest best practices and advice. Below are 44 tips I’ve learned, organized by topic and ordered from easiest to hardest to implement.
I’ve just spent the last couple of days in Nairobi, Kenya because I’m a board member of an NGO based here, Ushahidi , an organization that builds tools for democratizing information and increasing transparency. I need to find a space like this in Silicon Valley for 2011. Ushahidi Board Meeting at iHub in Kenya.
I often get the comment during a leadership seminar I teach that goes something like, "Well this is all well and good for large organizations, but what about my twelve-person NGO?" IFRC joined in early 2011. Plan with other local NGOs and create an informal board of IT advisors. They contracted with Microland in Bangalore.
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