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The Networked NGO in India

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This year a lot of my work as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation is working with grantees outside of the US. I’ve just returned from leading a training for Population and Reproductive Health grantees from India. Chandrashekar, India Country Advisor and his talented team members, Ms.

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Shouldn’t the Word Phone Be Removed from Mobile? The Use of the Mobile by Nonprofits for Development

Tech Soup

Frontline SMS’ and Ushahadi’s collaboration is an example of this. For those nonprofits working on sustainable development issues - NextDrop uses mobile technology to monitor and improve water flow in urban India and subsequent sustainable development. has found that in India upon achieving a critical penetration rate of.

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Digital Platforms for Greater Impact: Examples for Foundations

Forum One

a collaborative effort, not just a single department or team’s responsibility. Collaborative efforts: Various organizations contributing their own resources, content, and data to create a common service that none of them would have been able to develop on their own is possible through digital platforms. Images of Empowerment.

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Women's Global Green Action Network: An Interview with Melinda Kramer

Have Fun - Do Good

Our essential intention is to cultivate partnerships of grassroots women who are working at the community level on issues of environmental sustainability and social justice, so that they can really find opportunities to collaborate and to exchange best practices, exchange resources, and really build a collective agenda.

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The Dragonfly Effect: Win A Copy, Leave A Comment, Swab Your Cheek

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Design for collaboration. Employ empowerment marketing. So, it was no surprise that this book launch also included a bone marrow registry campaign. Jennifer Aaker and Andy Smith also announced their plans to go to India to help establish a bone marrow registry there in December. Tell your story. Act, then think.

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Using Photography to Change the World: An Interview with Paola Gianturco

Have Fun - Do Good

Britt Bravo: In so many of the groups you profiled, the women were using the arts for education, empowerment, or healing. As I was traveling to 12 countries to interview women artisans, a woman in India said, "Come back in the fall and we'll teach you how to dance the dances that we perform all night to honor the mother god, Durga."