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Meet Your Local NetSquared Organizer at #17NTC

Tech Soup

Don't worry, there are NetSquared groups in 75 cities who are dedicated to holding events for their local nonprofit technology communities. Lira, Uganda: How NGOs Can Benefit from Microsoft Donations. Lusaka, Zambia: Website Building and Designing Using WordPress for Nonprofits. Lusaka, Zambia: Social Media Surgery.

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Geoff Livingston Guest Post: Follow @childfund and Help Feed Children

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

These efforts will directly benefit children in Gambia, Zambia, Kenya and Ethiopia. A goat for a family farm in Zambia. ChildFund wants to show folks how their efforts and these items benefit children and their communities. There is no cap on on followers, and the offer will continue through July 27. .

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CEO’s Update: Fall 2014

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Are you excited about technology benefiting the world? 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. We did very well, and with the Skoll Foundation’s matching support, each gift to our campaign more than doubled its impact.

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Joitske Hulsebosch: Blogs, NGOs, and Developing Countries

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In Ethiopia, she did organizational capacity building work for a local network of NGOs. The tools can be useful for in-country connections, in local languages, or north-south connections. in Ghana here and a story about the use of a wiki in Zambia by my colleague Saskia here. What benefits? Through my blog I see what???s

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Empowering Refugees: Interview with Kjerstin Erickson of FORGE

Have Fun - Do Good

It's really designed to make sure that all solutions are both emerging from the local community and tailored to the community's needs, and are developing the leadership skills of the most promising and emerging leaders at the same time. What are the benefits of that, and the challenges of that? He had no idea where his family went.

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All Facets of the Impact Investing Field at SOCAP16

Connection Cafe

It was an invigorating first day at SOCAP16, connecting with innovators, all convening for one sole reason: strategizing the best way to leverage capital for social benefit. At the forefront of strategies is impact investing. From the plenary speech alone, it was clear how much the impact investing field has evolved. But it’s not that easy.

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[VIDEO] Raise More Money And Improve Donors Relationships Through Personal Branding

Bloomerang

We got to be able to make a great case about what the impact we’re having a short-term benefit to the beneficiaries, and the long-term benefit of what we’re doing those kinds of things. And so sometimes by not cheesing out and doing something classy and nice and spending a little money can have big benefits.

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