Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 8, 2010

I’m heading to Geneva later this month for the next major meeting at the World Intellectual Property Organization (“WIPO”), to hear the latest and make my three-minute oration as an accredited NGO representative (first time for me!). They all meet the definition of TI as a primary purpose of the agency or NGO.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

Workshop Ngo Feb 13 View more presentations from Beth Kanter. The Nasscom Foundation in India, the epicenter of nonprofit technology and social innovation, invited me to present as part of the Global CSR track in a session about reaching the Bottom of the Pyramid with technology and social media. NGOS in India.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 31, 2018

An Interview with Matt Roberts-Davies , General Manager of M-Changa – an official partner of the 2018 Global Trends in Giving Report. According to the International Center for Not-for-Profit Law , there are 6,500+ NGOs registered with the NGOs Coordination Board in Kenya. How do you see it evolving over the next 10 years?

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 11, 2012

We released our report on the 2012 TechSoup Global NGO Cloud Survey in September; we've now had several months to consider the findings and talk to some of you about what you think. It turns out that NGOs are trying out an array of cloud services. For the global NGO sector, cloud computing has arrived.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 13, 2018

Noisli is a background noise and color generator that can help you focus while working and brings to you the healthy benefits of the chromotherapy. Global NGO Technology Report :: techreport.ngo. An annual report that examines how NGOs worldwide use technology to engage their donors and supporters. Noisli :: noisli.com.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

An Interview with Fanny Villiers , Directora General of Donadora – an official partner of the Global Trends in Giving Report ( en español ). How has this impacted individual giving to NGOs in Mexico? Giving Trends in Mexico: 2018 Global Trends in Giving Report. ? Is online giving growing rapidly as well?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

I spent the last two days at the TechSoup Global Summit getting inspiration overload about social media, networks, social network mapping, networks of networks, global peer learning, building a sector, nonprofit technology, and many other ideas I’m passionate about. The next day was all about practice, action, and doing.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 13, 2019

But in its general technical usage, the word sadaqa denotes a voluntary offering of some form of benefit to another. -- @ZakatUS. From this we can see that charitable acts are not limited to money only. The Quran sometimes uses the word #sadaqa interchangeably with #zakat. Click to Tweet. American Muslim Giving Trends.

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NetWits

MARCH 21, 2012

TechSoup Global wants to learn more about how nonprofits, libraries, foundations and all types of NGOs use traditional and cloud-based technology. The results will support NGOs in making informed IT decisions. Take the survey or share it with others you know.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

In 2012, TechSoup Global, in collaboration with our partners around the world, conducted a survey of nonprofits, charities, NGOs, and social benefit organizations around the globe. NGOs are using the cloud. How does your NGO compare? There are barriers.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 24, 2019

Besides, having access to your supporters’ network is one of the biggest benefits of running a peer-to-peer campaign in the first place. Based on the 2018 Global NGO Technology Report.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 3, 2020

According to the Global NGO Technology Report , 47% of nonprofits purchased Facebooks Ads in 2019. According to the Global Trends in Giving Report , 32% of online donors gave through Facebook Charitable Giving Tools in 2020. Then, target a global, open audience. Of those, 89% said they would likely do it again.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Another benefit of having a user-generated storytelling campaign is the vast amount of digital assets you can collect from the campaign. As digital natives, many millennials (and younger) live on social media, which makes user-generated storytelling campaigns a great way to empower, inspire and engage this generation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2007

Benefits of Global Blogging: Dinner Companions No Matter Where You Go! I remember at the 2005 Global Voices Summit, Rebecca MacKinon made a toast to everyone and jokingly said that those who are involved with Global Voices will never lack for dining companions no matter where they go in the world.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

An Interview with Ruy Fortini , Founder and CEO of Doare and official partner of the 2018 Global Trends in Giving Report. According to the Institute of Applied Economic Research , there are 820,000 existing NGOs, also know as ONGs (organizaciónes no gubernamentales), in Brazil. Just don’t give up!

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 24, 2012

the large crowd that joined us online recently for our Cloud Computing: Benefits & Barriers webinar featuring Patrick Callihan from NPower PA. Anna Jaeger and Kevin Lo of TechSoup Global presented baseline data from our 2012 Global NGO Cloud Survey that raised important questions for the audience thinking about.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 4, 2012

I did a post a few weeks ago on youth programs in TechSoup Global's new Local Impact Map and decided I hadn’t covered this resource nearly enough. demonstrates what nonprofits, NGOs, and libraries around the world are doing with their TechSoup Global software donations to further their missions. Our Local Impact Map.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 2, 2012

When TechSoup and our global network of partners surveyed more than 10,500 NGOs around the world this year to find out whether they are using and needing cloud based IT services, we didn’t know how many would report cloud technology adoption. 90 percent of respondents worldwide indicated using some type of cloud technology.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 28, 2016

Noisli is a background noise and color generator that can help you focus while working and brings to you the healthy benefits of the chromotherapy. The 2016 Global NGO Online Technology Report. 2,780 NGOs • 133 Countries • 6 Continents. Paper :: iTunes. Paper is a mobile app for organizing notes, photos, and sketches.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 4, 2010

As a capacity-building organization for the global nonprofit and social benefit sector, we at TechSoup are very conscious of the need to understand and work within different cultural contexts for philanthropy. Though these funds are registered as NGOs, they pride themselves on having zero administrative costs.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Noisli is a background noise and color generator that can help you focus while working and brings to you the healthy benefits of the chromotherapy. Global NGO Technology Report :: techreport.ngo. An annual report that examines how NGOs worldwide use technology to engage their donors and supporters. Noisli :: noisli.com.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

We first connected back in 2004 when I started my first blog on Cambodia and was covering the Cambodian Blogosphere for Global Voices. That’s one of the benefits of social media, you can see what people are saying about the organization, who’s giving to the organization. It became a movement of generosity.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 16, 2013

According to our 2012 NGO Global Cloud Survey , collaboration is already one of the top ten current uses for cloud-based software among charities. I used it to project manage our recent global NGO cloud survey. Collaboration Is How Charities Function. What Is a Perpetual License? Last year Huddle.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

Global giving appeals to grantmakers of all sizes and types, from family foundations with enduring legacies to new foundations exploring novel pathways of giving. NGOsource, a project of the Council on Foundations and TechSoup Global , streamlines the task of evaluating whether a non-U.S. organization is equivalent to a U.S.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 30, 2009

This week at the Packard Foundation, I had the opportunity to meet Steve Waddell whose research focuses on Global Action Networks. Every non-profit works with “systems” – internal ones relating to how work gets done, issue systems relating to the topic that the NGO is working to address, and mental model systems about strategy.

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Tech Soup

JULY 13, 2012

This post was authored by Keisha Taylor, communications manager for the GuideStar International program of TechSoup Global. Technology product donations, training, and nonprofit data are all part of TechSoup Global’s offering to civil society in India. million NGOs in India. We are thrilled to be associated with it."

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

If someone offers you free business advice, it’s probably for their own benefit. In business, if someone’s offering you advice, it’s probably for their own benefit. NGO program. As Rebecca Szkutak reported this week, SaaS startups that ignored this advice outperformed the ones that followed it. Market size.

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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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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 13, 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. and Community Driven Innovation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 27, 2005

My sister was working for an NGO as a volunteer agriculturist in Cambodia and encouraged me to take a job there. Tell us about your work in Cambodia with the NGO, Mlup Baitong. It is a benefit. How does your NGO use technology to support your advocacy and education work? Cross-posted on Global s. Mlup Baitong???s

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 8, 2013

I love year-ahead forecasts and have looked a number of them from all over the global IT press. More and more nonprofit, library, and NGO offices worldwide will need to accommodate personally-owned tablets and smartphones on wireless networks in order to work and communicate. The Forecasts for 2012. for some time now.

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AFP Blog

OCTOBER 15, 2012

Bringing the benefits of technology to Austrian nonprofits - Microsoft Citizenship Blog - Site Home - TechNet Blogs : Technology donations for nonprofits made easy: What has benefited German nonprofits for nearly four years now, is now also available in Austria.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Note from Beth: Lately, a question on my mind is whether or not the concept of Networked Nonprofits is a global one as I’ve had the opportunity to share some of the ideas beyond the US borders in Kenya and UK. I think Pratham Books , an NGO in India, is a networked nonprofit. Crossposted at the Creative Commons Weblog.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 22, 2015

Here is what we've found out about how drone technology is being used to benefit humanity. In December 2013, drones from the NGO Direct Relief were put to work assessing damage and participating in search and rescue operations in the super typhoon Haiyan-stricken Philippines. What Are Drones, Anyway? In the U.S.,

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 21, 2008

Benetech's newest project is a software tool called Miradi that helps environmental practitioners design, manage, monitor and learn from their projects to more effectively meet the needs of global biodiversity. I expect to find the funding we need to launch both Miradi and Route 66 as full-fledged projects rather than beta tests.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 2, 2007

She has worked for that NGO for almost two years. Her blog covers social, political, and economic global issues from the perspective of young Cambodian professional. Be Chantra, a member of the clogger team, had introduced the young people to the idea and benefits of blogging. What are some of the benefits?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 27, 2005

Tharum started his blog in June 2004 while a student at the National University of Management and working for the Open Forum for Cambodia , a Cambodian NGO devoted to digital divide issues. He became a global celebrity a few days later when a another article appeared in Wired. What benefits has your blog brought to you?

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