Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Day of Service — #MLKDay 28: Data Privacy Day — #DataPrivacyDay February 2: World Wetlands Day — #WorldWetlandsDay 4: World Cancer Day — #WorldCancerDay 6: Safer Internet Day — #SaferInternetDay 13: World Radio Day — #WorldRadioDay 15: Digital Learning Day — #DigitalLearningDay 18: World Whale Day — #WorldWhaleDay 20: World Day (..)

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Tech Soup

MARCH 19, 2009

From TechSoup Global's grant-funded projects: MaintainIT Project. Brenda loves the Pulaski County Public Library's Literacy Bell, a simple way to celebrate children's literacy. Chris sums up last week's webinar, Five Mistakes to Avoid When Acquiring Software. Tools Using the Web and Internet.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

We’re operating at the forefront of copyright limitations and exceptions, both in the United States and globally. Digital signatures for parents/guardians wanting to sign up their children with disabilities for Bookshare. We serve human rights activists in more than 100 countries. when we bring them to developing world countries.

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OCTOBER 31, 2016

Children's Literacy Initiative. The Children’s Literacy Initiative (CLI) began as a way to provide collections of excellent children’s books & trainings in reading-aloud to teachers in economically disadvantaged neighborhoods. Star Wars: Force for Change. Greenpeace. The Humane Society.

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Kindful

AUGUST 9, 2021

Global Fund For Children. Their grantmaking aims to ensure that American public education prepares all students with the knowledge, skills, and dispositions they need to fully participate in democracy and thrive in the global economy. Global Fund For Children. Funding Priority: Education. Mellon Foundation.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

This blog originally appeared on the Huffington Post In December 1981 soldiers of the Salvadoran Army’s Atlacatl Battalion entered the village of El Mozote, where they murdered hundreds of men, women and children.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 13, 2006

Silicon Valley entrepreneurs are building on the foundations laid by people like Bill Hewlett and David Packard, who long supported global issues and whose foundations continue their work today. Increasing literacy for women? What's your issue? Stopping domestic violence? Curing a specific disease?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2007

Those kids are the children of the poorest villagers in Roteang Village. We built a new school building for them - and the school is a literacy program. We also have a presence at Global Giving which has recently launched a new look for its site. I love that photo. Their parents are working on our farm project.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 3, 2005

We also agreed that we had to work harder at delivering our core common message that disadvantaged communities globally need much more than charitable handouts, they need access to the tools to help themselves. One joked about the nine months of follow-up work resulting from the five days at this meeting. Instant accomplishment.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

On September 11, despite having reunited several families, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children had a list of 1,600 children listed as missing by their parents, or who were seeking their families.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2008

Sharing Foundation Khmer Literacy Program. Roger Carr has written a wonderful post about the Sharing Foundation's Khmer Literacy School. The children sat at their desks, quietly writing the khmer letters on their little chalk boards. Is that cool - the literacy school is green! I want to mention a few recent posts.

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Candid

APRIL 13, 2021

Based on pre-pandemic estimates and additional post-pandemic data, the report, The Education Finance Playbook (29 pages, PDF), found that current aid to education globally totals some $16 billion annually—a figure that has been trending down—while at least $75 billion a year is needed. Currently, the numbers just don’t add up.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 10, 2008

TSF has helped support a poor school named Beng Krom School, with 595 grammar school children on the far side of the Mekong. s children really need three latrines to expand from the two they have for all their children and teachers. Now Beng Krom???s I want to thank everyone who has contributed so far.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 21, 2008

If we win, we can help many children like Mon Channy have a better life. Frequently, children in very poor families work in order to bolster the family???s s Khmer Literacy School has provided huge opportunity. For most children in Cambodia this is a story that is all too common. Mon Chany's Story. theasianeconomist.com/?p=6.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2008

A number of nonprofit organizations are promoting Valentine's Day giving opportunities, here's a few: A Day for Hearts is an opportunity to raise awareness about congenital heart defects, a lethal constellation of birth defects of the heart that affect millions of newborn infants and children worldwide.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 4, 2014

Google Global Impact Award competitions have been held in India and the UK, and most recently in the San Francisco Bay Area. Bring Me a Book is creating a "literacy ecosystem" via social media in Alameda and Santa Clara Counties. " Program is creating new distribution channels for affordable produce to low-income people.

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NonProfit Hub

MAY 24, 2018

Bill Kauth, founder of the Mankind Project , a “global brotherhood of nonprofit charitable organizations that conducts challenging and highly rewarding programs for men at every stage of life.” . – John Wood , Founder of Room to Read, a nonprofit promoting literacy in children. Tell us all the ways it could work.”.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Women are underrepresented in the field of technology, and it’s a global problem. Symantec’s grant is applied toward their Global Partnership Businesswomen’s Network in the Middle East and North Africa. Their support will help Room to Read extend its operations into new parts of India and reach over 20,000 children.

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Tech Soup

MAY 31, 2013

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. Although Vietnam is regarded as a developing country, it has a literacy rate of 94 percent. It is densely populated with 92 million people.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 15, 2008

"Now, 18 months later, all of Juana's children are in school. CH: You know it is funny; it actually didn't start out as a women-centered initiative, but the more research I did about creating global training sites and free media enterprises in these developing countries, training women just makes the most sense. CH: Right, exactly.

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Kindful

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

PADI AWARE Foundation is a publicly funded nonprofit whose mission is to drive local action for global ocean conservation. The Highland Street Foundation is committed to addressing the most pressing needs and concerns for children and families in Massachusetts and California. Areas served: Worldwide. PADI AWARE Foundation.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

Are they wanting to fund children’s programs? So, if I provide 10 English as a second language or 10 computer literacy programs a year for 10 people, let’s just say that’s 100 pieces of content, that’s service. If the experience of those children is not positive, then is it really a celebration?

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Tech Soup

APRIL 14, 2015

A search engine doesn't know that "high-quality, evidence-based early childhood literacy interventions" are the same thing as "helping children learn to read." James Metzger is TechSoup Global's online marketing and analytics manager. Use those words in your content. Image / Alexis Wilke / CC BY-SA.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 16, 2015

But with so many charities and libraries working with children, the weird new security threat in 2016 will be smart toys. Children love it. The intruder was able to get names, addresses, genders, birth dates, and even photos of children — more than six million children. Privacy and Security. " He was so right.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2009

Both of these designers presented compelling images and evidence from exhibit work and child development experts about the idea that you can make sophisticated, muted exhibits that help children slow down, focus, and enjoy themselves with interactive content.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

The data from GivingTuesday comes from their 2019 GivingTuesday Impact Report and the 2020 Global Trends in Giving Report data is based on the survey responses of 2,263 GivingTuesday 2019 donors. From the 2020 Global Trends in Giving Report : 2) 9% of donors worldwide donated to a nonprofit, NGO, or charity on GivingTuesday 2019.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 19, 2019

20: Global Recycling Day — #GRD2020. 20: Global Recycling Day — #GRD2020. 12: International Day for Street Children — #StreetChildrenDay. 8: International Literacy Day — #LiteracyDay. 16: Global Cat Day — #GlobalCatDay. 2: World Wetlands Day — #WorldWetlandsDay. 4: World Cancer Day — #WorldCancerDay.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 3, 2013

Guest Beneblog by Betsy Beaumon, VP and General Manager, Benetech’s Global Literacy Program. With the goal of promoting braille literacy, this landmark meeting brought together braille experts from around the world to Perkins’ campus in Watertown, Massachusetts. And today, braille is not being taught to most blind children.

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Bloomerang

MAY 6, 2022

Their priorities range from facilitating book donation drives to supporting arts education to funding playground construction and family literacy programs. . The Awesome Foundation is a global community advancing the interest of “awesome in the universe,” mostly through providing $1,000 micro-grants. Wish You Well Foundation.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Remote learning for refugee children in Lebanon: Malala Fund Education Champion Nayla Fahed created Tabshoura, an award-winning e-learning platform that helps Syrian refugees and girls in vulnerable communities in Lebanon learn for free. The broadcasts air weekly and deliver multilingual lessons on literacy, numeracy, and STEM.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 27, 2007

I can't do this alone and that's why I'm asking my blogger friends to join me and in helping to raise money to help the many children who are touched by the Sharing Foundation's programs. My husband and I adopted two beautiful children, Harry and Sara, from Cambodia. Sign up here. Why am I doing this? It's a route out of poverty.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 29, 2008

The Sharing Foundation's mission is to help meet the physical, emotional, educational and medical needs of orphaned and seriously disadvantaged children in Cambodia. Beth is on the Board of the Foundation, and she and her husband have two children, Harry and Sara, who were adopted as orphans from Cambodia.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2008

Making media together is another way to teach your children about various causes. Here's a few stories about some children mentioned in the video: Sina, age 15, is an orphan and head of her family, two younger sisters aged 12 and 9. Sina helps makes school uniforms that the Foundation provides to over 1,000 street children in Cambodia.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2006

MacArthur wants to know: How is digital media changing the way that children learn and develop and what are the implications? He noted that media literacy has to be integrated as a skill set in all places. Media literacy and creation skills can't be add-ons in schools, but have to be integrated across the curriculum in all subjects.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

In the neighborhood of West Philadelphia, People’s Emergency Cente r (PEC) has invested over $57 million into community development programs that seek to change the lives of women and children and inspire families. We also cheer on and highlight the following six organizations out of the many that are participat ing in Giving Tuesday.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 26, 2008

Due to the fact that the focus of these media corporations is on creating profits rather than social justice, the many answers that we demand as conscious global citizens become conditional. Our mission is to strengthen the voice of activist artists - 'Artivists' - while raising public awareness for social global causes."

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Kindful

MARCH 5, 2021

Global Fund for Women. Wallace Global Fund. This foundation supports children, families, and communities as they strengthen and create conditions that propel vulnerable children to achieve success as individuals and as contributors to the larger community and society. Global Fund For Women. Boulware Foundation.

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