Tech Soup

JUNE 18, 2013

I've just returned from organizing an electronics recycling conference in Cape Town, South Africa, where I met Dr. Hylton Villet, the chairman of MyDigitalBridge in Namibia. Namibia is a medium-sized country that borders South Africa. It's located on the southwest Atlantic coast of Africa. How 4G Works in Africa.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 25, 2013

TechSoup's partner in Africa, SANGONeT , has compiled case studies and profiles of the South African nonprofits and charities they serve. The goal of these case studies is to raise awareness of the impact these nonprofits are making in South Africa. This township is one of the poorest areas in South Africa. Art and Media.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 21, 2012

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Global Goods Partners have partnered with over 60 artisan groups in more than 20 countries throughout Asia, Africa, and the Americas to help bring to market the fair trade, handcrafted products they produce. 11) Global Goods Partners :: globalgoodspartners.org. 12) Heal the Bay :: shop.healthebay.org. 7) Uncommon Goods :: uncommongoods.com.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 18, 2024

The Africa Wildlife Foundation cleverly uses its website domain name to promote its social media profiles by creating easy-to-type redirect URLs. In this example of a “Thank you for subscribing” email, Water.org requests that new subscribers also follow them on social media. 5) Add a call-to-follow to your print campaigns.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 25, 2023

The Africa Wildlife Foundation cleverly uses its website domain name to promote their social media profiles by creating easy-to-type redirects. Promoting URLs effectively in print materials can be a challenge because URLs are often too long and difficult to type into a browser.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 18, 2017

In Asia Pacific, Latin America, Africa, and the Middle East mobile payment systems through messaging apps are on the rise and worldwide digital wallets are gaining users. That said, below are 12 stats to consider and research further about online fundraising, social media, and mobile technology.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Earlier this month, we interviewed Avi Kaplan from Epic Change, and asked him what they were up to in Africa: What are you up to right now in Africa? Tags: events fundraising africa epic change tweetsgiving. This year, the Epic Change team are working on building a technology lab there. Read the rest of the interview here.).

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 14, 2012

As an engineer who has been working on social good for over twenty years, and felt pretty lonely the first ten or so, it's exciting to run into an organization that has many engineers in the field (in Africa), and tens of thousands of members around Canada!

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 15, 2009

This morning I had the pleasure (and some anxiety, to be honest) of presenting to the SANGONeT Conference taking place this week and next in South Africa.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 29, 2011

Leila's dream has been to connect the people of East Africa with dignified digital work, and connecting Steve to our Bookshare team has been highly successful for Daproim, Samasource and Bookshare! We were introduced to Steve and Daproim through the great offices of Leila Janah and Samasource, the "Give Work" people.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 3, 2011

He uses the Alliance Forum Foundation as one of his vehicles for making deals along these lines in Asia and Africa. A longtime venture capitalist with his DEFTA Partners firm , he wants to help solve social problems using hybrid capital structures that meld nonprofit and for-profit partners.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 16, 2014

Case in point is our team’s work with local LGBTI groups in Sub-Saharan Africa to help them establish independent human rights documentation initiatives. And we have even more improvements in our development pipeline. As toolmakers, our ultimate impact is measured by what our users create with our products. I hope you join us!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 15, 2012

Global Goods Partners is dedicated to alleviating poverty by strengthening women led development initiatives in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. The Getty Museum seeks to further knowledge of the visual arts and to nurture critical seeing by collecting, preserving, exhibiting and interpreting works of art of the highest quality.

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TechImpact

JANUARY 3, 2014

1 billion mobile phones are expected to be in use in Africa by 2016. A 10% increase in mobile penetration can raise the annual GDP by 1.2%. 93% of female mobile phone users feel safer because of their phone. Image courtesy of ONE.org. Industry News Mobile Tech Mobile Technology nonprofit nonprofit technology npTech'

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 31, 2018

Seeing the limitations of microfinance, Matt sought alternative financial solutions to improve financial access across Africa. Matt believes that donations and rewards based crowdfunding platforms are just the starting point for crowdfunding across Africa, he’s also involved in establishing crowdfunding for investment across Africa.

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TechImpact

MAY 15, 2013

In places like rural Africa, reliable internet service is hard to come by.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 9, 2014

She noted that each year the Foundation gathers government policymakers from its three target regions (West Africa, East Africa, and India) to discuss best practices in cost-effective interventions in education.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

According to the 2017 Global NGO Online Technology Report , “NGO” is the predominant term used in Africa (53%), Asia (52%), and Europe (31%). There are an estimated 10 million NGOs worldwide of which the majority are not yet online. ONG” is the predominant term used in South America (35%).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 19, 2017

9 out of 11 of the fastest-growing countries are in Africa while 9 of out 11 of the fastest-shrinking countries are in Europe. Today it is 3.4 Generation Z (currently 19 and younger) is mobile-first and mobile-only – and 27% of the global population.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 3, 2011

From famine in Africa to war in the Middle East to global economic collapse, people are increasingly becoming overwhelmed by all the tweets, status updates, photos, and videos of gloom, doom, and despair. All day, everyday the online masses are being bombarded with terrible news.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 30, 2010

Running through the hall, I ran into Kristine Pearson of the Freeplay Foundation (hand and solar powered radios for mainly Africa), and heard about her new radio/MP3 player with 32 GB of storage. Each of these changemakers was dynamic and the crowd was excited about how to help them succeed.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 6, 2010

His idea is straightforward: he believe the Middle East/North Africa region is ripe for values-centered for-profit social enterprises that can both make plenty of money and deliver social benefits.

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NetWits

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

The United Nations Foundation made the massive health issue of malaria in Africa accessible with its easy-to-use Nothing But Nets game. As gamification evolves beyond badges and avatars, nonprofits can institute game play to tell their story in a moving and convincing way. The cost of entry is low.

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Wild Apricot

AUGUST 23, 2010

A lively LinkedIn discussion was kicked off when Elizabeth Watkin , program coordinator at Africa Carbon Credit Exchange,asked, “ What makes a good non-profit website? What do you like to see on a charity/non-profit/NGO website and what do you dislike? Would a website encourage you to donate or get involved?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 17, 2013

A citizen of Paraguay, he is the founder of Fundación Paraguaya , a financially self-sustaining social enterprise that promotes entrepreneurs in Paraguay and Africa through microcredit and entrepreneurship education. and Africa.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 4, 2014

Two 14-year-old girls, one in the US and one in Malawi, had their lives changed when they joined forces to fight the AIDS epidemic in Africa. This is the story of how a Michigan faith based organization called Hope Endeavors leads significant humanitarian work from a home office.( read more ).

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 15, 2010

But, what happens after doctors in Africa rave about how successful this or that invention are in their hospital? Their students actually go into the field, work with local medical professionals, and learn their real problems, their real pain points. So far, so good. How do you go from ten or twenty prototype units to scale?

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

What are you up to right now in Africa? Tags: events interview africa epic change fundraising philanthropy tweetsgiving twitter. You can find an event to attend on our website TweetsGiving.org , volunteer to host a gratitude party (it’s not too late!), You can find him on twitter ( @MeshugAvi )or by email ( Avi@EpicChange.org ).

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

What are you up to right now in Africa? Tags: events interview africa epic change fundraising philanthropy tweetsgiving twitter. You can find an event to attend on our website TweetsGiving.org , volunteer to host a gratitude party (it’s not too late!), You can find him on twitter ( @MeshugAvi )or by email ( Avi@EpicChange.org ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 16, 2012

The mission is to empower young women in East Africa to [.] I volunteered to do a Social Media and Professional Networking workshop for second year students at the Akilah Institute for Women. We spent most of our time looking at the importance of setting up a professional profile on Twitter.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 27, 2012

They are already active in Africa and Latin America, in countries like Uganda, Rwanda, Liberia, El Salvador, Mexico, Guatemala and Nicaragua. The founding team includes leaders from each of the first three Gold Standard clean cookstove projects (and these projects delivered more than half a million stoves). The economics are compelling.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

We work in North Africa Latin America, Asia: most of the places where large scale human rights abuses are going on. Department of State just funded us to help LGBT groups in Uganda securely capture documentation of abuses against those communities (again, our funders are not responsible for this post).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2012

For the past ten days, I’ve been in Rwanda, Africa. ” I learned later from Cheryl that she has conducted this exercise for many leadership programs throughout Africa and had learned it from her mentor, Birgitt Williams , who is an international expert in holistic leadership and design of participatory programs.

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The Fundraising Authority

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Here are a few examples: An organization focused on providing clean water to communities in Africa is using maps to show the locations of their water filtration projects and the communities they have helped. There are a variety of ways that nonprofits can use maps to illustrate the work they do and the areas they serve.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 20, 2019

Global Goods Partners have partnered with over 60 artisan groups in more than 20 countries throughout Asia, Africa, and the Americas to help bring to market the fair trade, handcrafted products they produce. 9) Global Goods Partners :: globalgoodspartners.org. 10) Human Rights Campaign Nonprofit Store :: shop.hrc.org.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 22, 2013

It wasn’t too many years ago when our pharmaceutical industry more or less argued that people with AIDS in Africa should die rather than to license their medicines for low cost manufacture. I want to advocate for “giving the sleeves off your vest” strategy!

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