Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 23, 2011

We leave that to China, Ghana, and other countries. And as our tools get more and more functional, and slimmer and smaller, and, well, cooler , we’re more than happy to toss the old stuff in the trash. We don’t see or interact with e-waste. E-waste pollutes the environment and poisons people.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

Developing countries like Kenya and Ghana, which are starting to make good progress on these efforts, aren’t in the LDC category. One particularly tall order from WIPO was the desire to have a successful pilot effort in several of the world’s Least Developed Countries, which are the toughest places to work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2007

My colleague, Joitske Hulsebosch, who is based in the Netherlands and most recently working in Ghana, developed a 12-step vlogging process to help a network in Ghana (GINKS) produce an ICT4D stories blog. Click To Play Vikas Nath explains his idea that empowerment of women in governance using ICTS should pass via livelihoods.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 22, 2006

Ghana game. Don't tell anyone, but I'm rooting for Ghana. World Cup Ghana It is 7:49 AM in California right now, and there are 7 people in our living room watching the US v. We even made "bleachers"--a long cupboard that you can sit on behind the couch so more people could watch.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2007

She is going to Ghana in November. She is using her blog to raise money to support the first Community Access television station in Ghana, Coastal Television in Cape Coast Ghana. SamLand is Shirley Mayfield's blog. The blog will also be used to chronicle her trip.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2006

The photo above is from Ghana. It looks a blog community that is just getting started. There is an interesting article by Roshani Kothari on photo tips and tricks who is a wonderful photographer. Check out her global mosaics gallery.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 8, 2011

I have danced with an entire village in Ghana. Dancing in Ghana Just writing this post has broken my heart open and I feel the familiar ache. During the day we move bricks, dig ditches, sift sand and mix mortar. Yet, these trips are not only about the work. Some of my greatest memories are off the worksite. Community is powerful.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Before and during her studies, she conducted field research for governmental and non-governmental organizations, as well as foundations, on maternal and child health in Sri Lanka, Ghana, Haiti, Somalia, Uganda, Kenya and India. You can listen and subscribe to the Big Vision Podcast via iTunes , or on the player above.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 13, 2016

People who start novel organizations like Ashesi University in Ghana, Technology Access Foundation in Seattle, and Shanti Bhavan (a boarding school) in India.

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

Freedom Fone in Tanzania and Ghana. Freedom Fone was introduced at two radio stations: Radio Maria in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and Volta Star radio in the Volta region of Ghana. Making radio more accessible in Ghana. The project will be atRite FM, a radio station outside the greater Accra region in Ghana. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 12, 2006

In Ghana people are interested in knowing about new tools, because they need to stay in touch with what???s An offline newsletter or meeting is very important in Ghana for instance for reaching people as they don???t in Ghana here and a story about the use of a wiki in Zambia by my colleague Saskia here. and that???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2007

A Few Self-Financed Learning Journeys Sam Mayfield has launched a new blog called Sam Land to raise money for and document his trip to Ghana in November. He will be bringing equipment and provide skills training to the first Community Access television station in Ghana.

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Forum One

MAY 4, 2009

The theme for this session is "Lessons Learned in Strengthening Health Systems for Tuberculosis Control in Developing Countries" HSAN Member Daniel Osei of the Ghana Health Service will serve as the resource person to respond to your questions relating to the over-all topic.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 9, 2006

Example: UNICEF Digital Diaries: Berenice's Story from Ghana, Part I. A young woman in Ghana was giving recording equipment to document her daily life in this 6-part series. Each week we give brief updates about what's new at NetSquared followed by interviews with nonprofit and social web innovators. Be creative!

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Saleforce Nonprofit

APRIL 12, 2021

The 350 Africa team uses Salesforce to track many things, like the application process of organizations that want to be part of the coalition, relationships, volunteers, training status, and community campaigns like Ghana-Reducing Our Carbon. They also use Salesforce to plan and chart a future path to growth.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

As part of the agreement, both organizations will target financial institutions serving the needs of vulnerable populations and provide financial capital and training in support of the development of the education sector in the target markets.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 18, 2009

Possible destinations this year are Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Liberia and/or Ghana. The winner will go on an international reporting trip with him to focus attention on the problems of global poverty, and its solutions. Past winners traveled to Cameroon, the Central African Republic, Rwanda, and Congo. on his blog, On the Ground.

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Media Cause

DECEMBER 6, 2022

The government of Ghana has doubled down on aligning with the SDGs and has produced incredible outputs and outcomes while bridging important partnerships with other countries and major global corporations. Ghana is a fantastic blueprint for how having a global north star is truly impactful. . Looking Beyond Just Nonprofits.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 6, 2009

The Liberian TRC was also the first to collect statements from members of the diaspora community – in this case Liberians living in Ghana, Nigeria, the United States and Europe. That may sound comparable – except when one considers that South Africa’s population is nearly fourteen times larger than Liberia’s.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2008

You can purchase a gift or card that provides AIDS grants in Ghana, Rwanda, and Swaziland. And, don't just support Breast Cancer Research on special holidays, every Friday is PeaFund Friday. Join the Red Campaign.

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AFP Blog

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

How Bitcoin is Used in Combatting Ebola - NPQ - Nonprofit Quarterly : "A group from Ghana has found a way to deploy cash donations more rapidly and more effectively directly to the front lines of the effort to contain Ebola in neighboring Sierra Leone.

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Forum One

MAY 20, 2009

Do these same sites appear the same to those in Ghana? The three of us -- including me, a Product Manager at Forum One -- engaged in a debate on whether the internet pages we see here in the United States can be accessed anywhere else in the world.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2009

Others examples include loans to schools in India and capital for small manufacturers in Ghana. The social capital market is the arena that allows investors to "do well by doing good." An easy example is green technology. Some are calling it impact investing.

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Tech Soup

JULY 21, 2015

It has already created a mobile app that is providing free Internet access in Ghana and India. Facebook's Internet.org aims to deeply cut the cost of Internet on mobile phones in the developing world. It is also experimenting with high-altitude solar-powered drones , satellites, and lasers.

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Whole Whale

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Their use of joyful photos of individuals or small groups helps personalize the program descriptions, as does highlighting an employee’s efforts, like those of Margaret Mary Debre, PoP’s Lead WASH Coordinator in Ghana. Want to get your site checked for inclusive language before the end of 2021? National Public Radio (NPR).

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 19, 2011

In Ghana, SAP is using their technology and volunteers in partnership with a leading NGO to help women create thriving businesses through the harvesting of shea nuts. Seven Billion Actions.

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AFP Blog

JANUARY 23, 2013

So far, boxes have been shipped to organizers in Ecuador, Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya, Uganda, India and Pakistan — and counting. With TEDx in a Box, individuals in the developing world and other underserved areas are delivered all the resources they need for an event, packaged into a portable box designed by IDEO.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 1, 2007

When I got home, I remembered the work of colleague Joitske Hulsebosch who has taught video blogging in Ghana. This lead me to a little experiment with Blip.TV mobile posting. Click to Play. I went back to look at her how-to which could be adapted easily for Cambodia.

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Kindful

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

The money went to improving education for children across Northern Ghana through teacher training and increasing awareness among citizens of the importance of education. million—which was five times what the organization had set out to raise. As a result of the campaign’s success, 18,000 children and 350 teachers reaped the benefits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

GINKs is a knowledge network promoting the use of ICTs in development in Ghana. And if you're looking for some fabulous manuals for open source software, check out the Floss Manuals. Kabissa.org wants to know how you are using "Web 2.0" " to pursue your grassroots agenda in Africa.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 4, 2010

When I sat down to talk with the co-Directors, Melinda Kramer and Amira Diamond, in early March, they had literally just returned from the West African Woman and Water Training in Ghana. You both just came back from the 2010 West African Women and Water Training in Ghana. What was that? What were some of the highlights?

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Whole Whale

MAY 10, 2024

Their use of joyful photos of individuals or small groups helps personalize the program descriptions, as does highlighting an employee’s efforts, like those of Margaret Mary Debre, PoP’s Lead WASH Coordinator in Ghana. Want to get your site checked for inclusive language? Click here to learn more about our Inclusivity Tool!

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 22, 2016

IDP’s pilot program in Ghana started with initial enrollment of 27,000 children and now is expected to reach a total of 150,000 children by July 2017. Irene also shed light on this issue as she described how the IDP Foundation specifically contributes to targets within SDG #4 (Education).

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 7, 2013

Revenues from developed countries such as the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and Denmark, where subscription fees are comparable to those in the United States, help us underwrite the cost of memberships in developing world countries such as India, Ghana, Kenya and Nigeria.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 3, 2021

They used the money to stress the value of education to communities and improve teacher training in primary schools across Northern Ghana. The total at the end of the campaign was $1.4 million, five times more than what they were hoping to raise. In all, the training had a positive impact on 18,000 children and 350 teachers.

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NTEN

MAY 1, 2013

Countries represented: 13 (US, Canada, UK, Korea, Australia, Switzerland, Netherlands, Poland, Belgium, Ireland, Nepal, Mexico, and Ghana). Speakers: 250. Online NTC Attendees:147. 13NTC tweets during the conference: 3000 from 806 unique tweeters from over 128 locations (thanks, Chris Tuttle for these cool visual charts).

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 31, 2012

She is an experienced Director, Producer, Researcher, Screenwriter and Social Media Marketing Strategist with field and studio experience on large- and small-scale productions in the United States, England, Ghana, Thailand and Laos. Windy founded D.V.A.

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