Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 17, 2010

As the worldwide debate continues about the release of government information by Wikileaks, history has shown that the uncovering of government data can be an important factor in human rights investigations. Habré has been accused of killing and systematically torturing thousands of political opponents.

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

The end of the Guatemalan Civil War resulted in a flood of non-governmental organization (NGO) programs spreading across the country in the hope of helping desperately poor people gain everything from their human rights, to better health care, food and nutrition, and training in governance. Like this article? Get another!

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 30, 2013

Before raising the hopes of any community, one of the first things an NGO should ask itself is: After we leave, what will remain in the community, and is it something they want and can sustain? R ead "Seeds for a Future Part 1: Getting your NGO off the ground," and "Seeds for a Future Part 2: Understanding communities and traditions.".

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 8, 2010

A Policy Update from an engineer, Jim Fruchterman of Benetech June 8, 2010 The international copyright negotiations in Geneva around a proposed Treaty for the Visually Impaired (“TVI”) have been steadily heating up. Counterproposals have been made, governments have been engaging with rights holders, consumers and NGOs (or not!)

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 24, 2012

This post is a continuation of Seeds for a Future Part 1: Getting your NGO off the ground. When starting a nongovernmental organization (NGO) in a community other than your own, it is important to recognize that there are cultural barriers (try to call these "opportunities") to consider. Like this article? Get another!

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 29, 2011

an international public media initiative designed to educate and connect people worldwide regarding the issues confronting women and girls. Please take a few minutes to complete the NGO Media and Technology Survey. with governments and organizations to put new media to work in the public. Women and Girls Lead is. communities.

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 17, 2011

This is a big deal because the federal government confers some nice benefits on the ones with a public mission. If you get your tax-exemption under section 501(c)3 of the Internal Revenue Code, you get a special name: public charity. In some contexts, nongovernmental organization , or NGO , is popular and widely used.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

Yet the costs and challenges of complying with the regulations that govern cross-border grantmaking have been a barrier to U.S. She provides guidance on international philanthropy law, oversees the equivalency determination review team, and educates the. philanthropic community about the requirements of international.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 16, 2013

According to our 2012 NGO Global Cloud Survey , collaboration is already one of the top ten current uses for cloud-based software among charities. I used it to project manage our recent global NGO cloud survey. Huddle is offering its online service to charities and libraries at a one-time admin fee, and a very reasonable one at that.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 18, 2013

Half the population lives below the international poverty line, and the country has been hard hit by HIV/AIDS. One thing that Namibia has going for it is a stable parliamentary democracy and a government that clearly believes in digital inclusion. An NGO with A National Mandate. It is a country of rural villages and small towns.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

For his day job, Robert runs Communications without Borders and the NGO Kikandwa Rural Communities Development Organization. As an unpaid volunteer, he organizes NetSquared in-person events where people from NGOs from all over the region come to talk shop and help each other. We also have individuals who are not attached to an NGO.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Under the theme “Achieving Our Vision through Empowerment and Partnerships,” this was the first-ever combined General Assembly of both WBU and the International Council for Education of People with Visual Impairment ( ICEVI ), another world-class organization in the field. The November 2012 General Assembly took place in Bangkok, Thailand.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

All this information goes into a government information system to generate regular reports. Government officials meet every two months to go over the reports to see where things are working and to take action in places where they aren’t. The government is now working to develop better plans for the poorer performing regions.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 3, 2011

We discussed cloud adoption in Brazil's NGO sector with Valter Cegal of TechSoup Brasil. ATN is an NGO association of over 2,000 telecenters. According to a recent UN International Telecommunication Union (ITU) report on Internet availability in 152 countries, Brazil ranked 64th in overall Internet availability to its people.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2011

And the circumstances under which user data is provided to governments, or human rights information and accounts are taken down from services are not always transparent. Access , the organizers of RightsCon, who work for digital freedom worldwide, consciously pitched this not as a human rights NGO conference.

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Tech Soup

JULY 1, 2016

You can help your tech-shy NGO friends cross the digital divide by bringing them to a nonprofit tech meetup. The targets need to be linked like so: --> Jump to events in North America or go international with events in. Victoria, British Columbia: NGO Summer Social. In fact, you probably know a few of these beginners.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 25, 2012

Nonprofits, government agencies, schools, and corporations organize events bringing awareness to fundraising and volunteering. There were a total of 12 NGOs present at the event, including the Maharashtra Dyslexia Association and the Sujaya Foundation , which provides educational services to underprivileged youth.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 14, 2011

This is a communique on the current state of cloud adoption in India from Prashant Pandit and Pooja Jayna from TechSoup Global's, NASSCOM Foundation BIGTech Program , which is an NGO committed to building ICT capacity in civil society in India. NASSCOM Foundation's Survey of NGO Cloud Readiness.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Our NGOsource Program Makes International Grantmaking Feasible. The process for clearing an NGO to receive a grant is much faster and much less expensive than it used to be — starting at $250 per equivalency determination. Grantmaking outside of the U.S. NGOsource is a project of the Council on Foundations and TechSoup.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 15, 2012

This week we got a great comment from a TechSoup member to our Cloud Technology and the NGO Community blog post. In our TechSoup Global NGO cloud survey we found that people in nonprofits and libraries are indeed concerned about data security in the cloud the world over. Can cloud vendors simply close your account without notice?

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

The targets need to be linked like so: --> Jump to events in North America or go international with events in. Seattle, Washington: Governance Responsibilities for Nonprofit Boards. Peterborough, Ontario: Domains, Branding, and Identity — NGO,CA,ORG, and more. The link need to be like so: Africa. Asia and the Pacific Rim.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 9, 2018

A statement to the international news agency Reuters read: “We revised our Ad Grants policies to help nonprofits be more effective with AdWords and improve the quality of their ads, which will lead to targeted awareness of their projects and mission.” reclaim their spot in the front of users’ minds. The net effects of the current U.S.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 26, 2015

It is now a diverse international group with team members in Russia, Belarus, Poland, Germany, and the U.S. So far, their attempts to work with government transportation authorities have failed. We are interested and engaged in the international community mapping movement. How Metro4All Does It. Mapping Metro Stations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

My goal was to have a conversation with the folks in the room – who represented both traditional nonprofit institutions, government agencies, and free agents – and answer the question, “ I’ve found my free agent now what? &#. Fortunately, that’s not true for every agency Mark has collaborated with.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 2, 2017

The targets need to be linked like so: --> Jump to events in North America or go international with events in. Seattle, Washington: What You Need to Know About Board Governance. Taipei, Taiwan: NGO要怎麼搞群眾募資？- 綠盟經驗談. Check each month that there are events in each region, and comment out the un-necessary regions. Europe and U.K.

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Tech Soup

JULY 6, 2015

The targets need to be linked like so: --> Jump to events in North America or go international with events in. Victoria, British Columbia: NGO Summer Social. Seattle, Washington: Governance Matters: Is Policy Governance for Your Organization? The link need to be like so: Africa. Asia and the Pacific Rim.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 11, 2006

If you are a regular reader of the Cambodia4kids Blog or read Global s Online , you already know about the Cambodian Government's actions to silence critics of the ruling party hit its peek when Human Rights activists Kem Sokha, Yeng Virak and Pa Nguon Teang were all arrested regarding banners displayed on Human Rights Day December 10, 2005.

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Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

It is hugely important that we get governments and multi-nationals to change the way they treat the planet, but that doesn’t mean we cannot do anything to show we care. The Planetary Health diet is a guideline developed by independent NGO commission ‘Eat Forum’ for the UN. Make your voice heard.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 9, 2020

International organizations planning their fundraising strategies for the new decade and looking for new funding sources may be wondering how to maximize their success in attracting U.S. Presented here is a roadmap for differentiating your international organization – in a competitive U.S. Please follow Ms. billion going overseas.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

This post originally appeared on the Netsquared blog and was authored by Bari Samad, an NGO domain expert for NetSquared. Aging poses a challenge because by 2050, the number of working-age people available to support each person aged 65 or older will decline by half worldwide, straining government social support and retirement financing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 26, 2007

By the time you read this post, I will be crossing the International Dateline enroute to the first Cambodian Bloggers Summit in Phnom Penh. (No, But I knew nothing about international relations, development, political science, civil society,et al. My long-term goal was to use technology to roll-out international development programs.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 3, 2004

The founder of the WEF, Klaus Schwab (and his lovely wife, Hilde), underwrites our participation to encourage business and government leaders to engage with social leaders in solving the world's problems. And, they do engage, with enthusiasm. People sometimes ask me how much money I raised for my nonprofit by going to Davos.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 17, 2006

Anyway, he mentioned that he set up a Typepad blog for Witness' Director, Gillian Caldwell to document her trip to Sierra Leone with Angelina Jolie to deliver recommendations of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) to the government. You can expose human rights violations and hold abusers accountable.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 3, 2006

One of the women, DeeAnn Resk, is originally from California and used to work at an international development office in Washington D.C. Up with People is apolitical and nonsectarian with no ties to any government, religious or political organization. Up with People youth education international before coming to Up with People.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2006

She also asked some really good questions about blogging for ngos on the listserv. Ali is the Founder of AVIF (ABLe Volunteers International Fund). In 2002, she established a 65-teacher international summer school in NE Asia. She lived in China for 8 months with her 2 young children.

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Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

It is hugely important that we get governments and multi-nationals to change the way they treat the planet, but that doesn’t mean we cannot do anything to show we care. The Planetary Health diet is a guideline developed by independent NGO commission ‘Eat Forum’ for the UN. Make your voice heard.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 3, 2011

Growing Constituents and Diversifying Funding International Relief and Development (IRD) is an NGO whose mission is to reduce the suffering of the world’s most vulnerable groups and to provide tools and resources needed to increase their self-sufficiency. generating interest in their initiatives.

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