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5 takeaways on trust in NGOs to manage new innovations and technologies 

Candid

For 20 years, the global communications firm Edelman has studied the influence of trust across government, media, business, and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). Here are five takeaways about global trends in the public’s trust in NGOs: 1.

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Why Self-Interested Volunteers are the Best for Nonprofits

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Orange hats” are assistant crew leaders who teach “green hats” how to do trail building and maintenance correctly. Six key lessons surfaced from our interviews with more than 35 global nonprofits. 7000 kilometres away in India, Haiyya is training the next generation of community organisers.

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

Have Fun - Do Good

She is the co-founder and co-director of Women's Global Green Action Network , a nonprofit that cultivates global partnerships of grassroots women environmental leaders by providing access to communication tools, support services and networking capabilities. We do it in a number of ways.

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Three Fabulous Conversations

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

That shortchanges Larry’s background: he was the key leader in the campaign to eliminate smallpox in India, cofounded the Seva Foundation and a couple of high tech companies, and was most recently running Google.org. They just need software to help cities understand the size of their challenges around these issues.

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Interview with My Dad, Tom Aageson, Co-Founder, Global Center for Cultural Entrepreneurship

Have Fun - Do Good

We want to give people an opportunity to really develop, innovate, and preserve their own culture." -- Tom Aageson, co-founder, Global Center for Cultural Entrepreneurship A week, or so ago I interviewed my Dad, Tom Aageson, for a special Father's Day show on the Big Vision Podcast. I've posted an edited transcript of the interview below.

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SOCAP: The Market at the Intersection of Money and Meaning

Tech Soup

In June, the Stanford Social Innovation Review published a two-part piece by TechSoup Global Founder and Chief Instigator, Daniel Ben-Horin. I hope you'll pardon me if I start with a green tech thing. A woman named Gail Work stopped by to chat about her new non-toxic green battery company in Silicon Valley called SeaWave Battery.

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

Tech Soup

Here are just a few of the many examples of how the humble mobile is being used for development: For those nonprofits working on agricultural issues - The Kenya Agricultural Commodity Exchange (Kace) , provides crop growers with the very latest commodity information via SMS and has helped farmers to quadruple earnings. increase in a.

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