Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 4, 2011

"There's really no more rewarding work in the world than helping women and girls attain the highest possible quality of life." ~ Carinne Brody This month's Big Vision Podcast interview is special because it's part of the Girl Effect Blogging Campaign organized by Tara Sophia Mohr. Share Tweet.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Laureus is a global movement whose purpose is to change the world through the power of sport. These words became the philosophy of Laureus and the driving force behind our work. I’ve been fortunate to travel around the world and experience the transformational work of the programs we support.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 12, 2011

As I mentioned in my previous two blogs about my Africa trip of last July, I had the pleasure of meeting many interesting people and learning about numerous exciting, cool projects during that three week long visit to Kenya, Tanzania and Ghana. The good news is that trachoma can effectively be eliminated.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 1, 2008

According to a recent AP report , 300,000 people in Kenya were forced to leave their homes, and over 800 people were killed during this past month's post-election violence. Feministing suggests making donations to the Kenya Red Cross Society. Kenya donation I want to do something. El Oso made a donation through MamaMikes.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

This is totally the “how sausage and law are made” view, so don’t read this unless you want to know more about global accessibility in detail! The nexus for this work is the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), the United Nations agency that deals with such matters. law works: the one that made Bookshare possible.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

Maximizing each partners’ strength, global reach and diverse experience, we are coming together to tell the story of progress (and lack thereof) for girls and women against the promises guaranteed in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2006

She caught my attention because she founded an organization that works with orphaned and disabled children in Kenya. Ali is the Founder of AVIF (ABLe Volunteers International Fund). In 2002, she established a 65-teacher international summer school in NE Asia. Organizations in Kenya are carefully vetted.

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Global Giving

AUGUST 21, 2018

Kevin Conroy Chief Product Officer Who He Is: Kevin leads GlobalGiving's product team, a talented group of programmers, system administrators, designers, communicators, and marketers that work tirelessly to improve the GlobalGiving website. They handle the user interface; we handle the global disbursements. in Economics.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

Maximizing each partners’ strength, global reach and diverse experience, we are coming together to tell the story of progress (and lack thereof) for girls and women against the promises guaranteed in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

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JUNE 18, 2009

A couple of weeks ago a group of Seattle global health data experts met at the Seattle Biomedical Research Institute to continue a conversation we started earlier this year on global health data. The impact of donor expectations on data collection.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

The initiative brings together an array of existing, new and enhanced global programs and partnerships that connect young people with better education, employment and entrepreneurship opportunities. Peter Shiras joined us from another great youth organization, the International Youth Foundation (IYF). A video of her story is here.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

If you don't have a local group (I can help fix that problem! ), there are also free online guides and a global Twitter chat October 5 using the hashtag #storymakers2017. The targets need to be linked like so: --> Jump to events in North America , or go international with events in. Kisii, Kenya: Storymakers 2017 NetSquared Kisii.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

But did you know that our work is global? That's why TechSoup created NetSquared , our global network of volunteer-led Tech4Good meetups. Every month our global network of community organizers hosts Tech4Good events in more than 70 cities. Nairobi, Kenya: NetSquared Kenya Joins Mozilla Maker Party 2016.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 29, 2010

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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2014

Video games are big — bigger than Hollywood in terms of revenue, as a $66 billion global industry. Since 2009, Zynga.org has enabled millions of players to contribute nearly $20 million to more than 30 nonprofit organizations globally. She previously worked with the Washington, D.C., You can register here.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

I just had to take that chance." - Jensine Larsen Jensine Larsen is the Founder and CEO of World Pulse , a global media and communication network devoted to bringing women a global voice. Our October 14th conversation began with Jensine explaining how World Pulse works. We unite those voices to accelerate change.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 18, 2012

Having project managed TechSoup Global's 2012 Global Cloud Computing Survey , I can heartily agree with that. TechSoup Global conducted a huge global cloud survey of NGOs in over 80 countries in March of 2012 and released the results in September. Social Media Really Does Work for Fundraising. Very heartening.

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Global Giving

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

After studying his work for years, Muhammad Yunus—champion of financial inclusion, founder of microfinance, and winner of the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize—is standing in front of me and a few dozen others in a bookstore. BitPesa, Banqu, and UCash are scaling similar concepts in Kenya, Indonesia, and India. How surreal.

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Tech Soup

MAY 12, 2014

TechSoup Global’s Dara Westling attended the recent Global Donors Forum in Washington, D.C. She is our vice president of development alliances and global media for TechSoup Global’s domestic and international programs. We connect the local with global resources.” Dara Westling.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

These global leaders are coming from Uganda, Australia, London, and Florida. We're a global movement with chapters in 20 countries. The targets need to be linked like so: --> Jump to events in North America or go international with events in. Busia, Kenya: Open Data Day. Busia, Kenya: Open Data Day.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 13, 2015

This post is Development Director Ryan Ginard's first impression of seeing how powerful a virtual reality video is in putting the viewer in the middle of a compelling story at the most recent meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative. A Highlight at the Recent Clinton Global Initiative Meeting.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 8, 2015

So far we've scheduled events in Kenya and Uganda, and will be adding more cities throughout the fall. The targets need to be linked like so: --> Jump to events in North America or go international with events in. New York, New York: #GivingTuesday: Creation of a Global Giving Movement. The link need to be like so: Africa.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 20, 2014

Rob Acker, Salesforce Foundation’s COO says " because so much of a nonprofit's success hinges on maximizing the connections between people, whether it's knowing what companies a prospective board member works with, to knowing that a donor runs in circles with others who would seem likely to kick in.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

We're a global movement with chapters in 20 countries. The targets need to be linked like so: --> Jump to events in North America or go international with events in. Seattle, Washington: How to Pick a WordPress Plug-In / WordPress Work and Support Lab. Busia, Kenya: Safer Internet Campaign — February 10 to March 25.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 26, 2020

Nonprofit work is essential in this country. That’s millions of people who work day-in and day-out to provide the critical services at which nonprofits excel—cultural, social, medical, and otherwise. And they’re certainly not exempt from a global pandemic. We had to work closely to support local clubs in navigating this.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 14, 2015

If you're like me, then you swore that this year, you're finally going to learn to use technology to make yourself more productive at work. TechSoup's NetSquared is a global network of nonprofit technology meetups. The targets need to be linked like so: --> Jump to events in North America or go international with events in.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

Find my piece, “ Will Facebook’s Internet.org Bridge the Global Digital Divide? Of course the trend in all offices, nonprofit and otherwise, is ‘ consumerization of IT ’ in which we’re all augmenting our work PCs with our personal smartphones, tablets… and now apparently smart watches.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

But supporting a rapidly expanding global network of volunteers is difficult, so we've enlisted seven of our most engaged organizers to act as Regional Ambassadors. The targets need to be linked like so: --> Jump to events in North America or go international with events in. The link need to be like so: Africa.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 8, 2015

Our events are powered by a global network of volunteers dedicated to building strong, self-sufficient, local communities of nonprofit technology practitioners. We're a global movement with chapters in 20 countries. The targets need to be linked like so: --> Jump to events in North America or go international with events in.

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Tech Soup

MAY 9, 2016

We're a global movement with chapters in 20 countries. Storytelling is our focus for May, but every month our global network of community organizers host Tech4Good events in more than 50 cities. The targets need to be linked like so: --> Jump to events in North America or go international with events in. Wednesday, June 8.

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Tech Soup

MAY 26, 2011

This was originally posted on the GuideStar International blog. The International Telecommunications Union (ITU). So how can nonprofits utilize mobile phones for their work? For those nonprofits working on economic issues - In Kenya, the M-Pesa. Can you remember when a huge mobile. a device only seen on TV!

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Tech Soup

MAY 23, 2013

Data Digest is a weekly round-up of the latest news on data-related projects in the nonprofit sector, compiled and authored by Keisha Taylor of GuideStar International and TechSoup Global. It originally appeared on NetSquared.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 17, 2014

To kick off a series of profiles on leaders in nonprofit technology, we thought we’d start close to home by featuring our TechSoup Global founder, Daniel Ben-Horin. CompuMentor in due course turned into TechSoup when it became a national nonprofit, and TechSoup Global in 2008 after it had become an international organization.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 28, 2006

From her Berkeley-based office, Melinda Kramer facilitates an international network of women leaders. Melinda Kramer: Women's Global Green Action Network is an international organization that is linking and empowering women working in environmental sustainability around the world. We do it in a number of ways.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 29, 2009

Her stories manifest the power of social media to bring about a new global consensus for action on poverty and health — one story, one conversation, one call to action at a time. We can now discuss, highlight and organize around the initiatives that work. The purpose of ThinkSocial.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

The tool will allow hackers and coders to get up to speed before the hackathon by reading problem statements written from the perspective of the people who are working to solve social problems on the ground: NGOs and activists. They can go straight to work to create useful apps and other tools for solving social problems.

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