Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Over those three years, Nonprofit Tech for Good and PIR trained more than 60,000 NPO and NGO staff worldwide! At the same time, internet freedom is decreasing worldwide and there is a clamp down on the NGO sector. WhatsApp Payments are launching soon in India. You can view the webinar archive on SlideShare.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 2, 2012

After I finished teaching an intensive Networked NGO workshop for Packard family planning grantees in Delhi, I headed to Bangalore to visit my friend and colleague, Rufina Fernandes where I conducted a social media workshop for staff and teachers and got see a start up education company and its CSR program, close up. Stay tuned.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2010

In less than 24 hours, I will be boarding a plane bound for Mumbai to present at the NASSCOM conference called NASSCOM India Leadership where I'll be on a panel on NGO and Social Media as well as lead a discussion at an unconference on whether CEO/Executive Director's should use social media. Tags: india.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2010

The Nasscom Foundation in India is the epicenter of nonprofit technology and social innovation. I'll not only be speaking at the conference and CSR Track, but will be leading two workshops for NGO and CSR practitioners. This year they have a record registration of 1650 delegates from India and other countries from around the world.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 7, 2006

I recently learned about an nonprofit organization in India dedicated to using video to help alleviate poverty and accelerate social change in the developing world. They partner with a range of NGOs to create an ongoing community video unit to support the NGO's programs by placing a full-time trainer in the NGO for a one-year period.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 25, 2012

Joy of Giving Week is a "festival of philanthropy" held October 2 through 8 all over India in conjunction with Mohandas Gandhi's birthday. To celebrate, TechSoup's partner in India, BiGTech , held the Find an IT Partner event in Mumbai to connect local nonprofits with IT students.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 7, 2012

By the time you read this post, I’ll be somewhere in the air between California and India to facilitate a “Networked NGO” training for NGOs in India that are Packard Foundation grantees. More about that later. But I have some exciting news!

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 15, 2013

We released our report on the 2012 TechSoup Global NGO Cloud Survey in September of 2012 and have now had a few months to ponder the findings and talk to several of you about what you think of them. Many NGOs Find Cloud Computing Confusing: Why? Cloud Contradictions in the NGO Sector. The global NGO average is 36%.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2012

After finishing a four-day intensive training in Delhi for the Networked NGO , I stayed on a few days in India to visit colleague, Rufina Fernandez, who I met when she was the CEO of the Nasscom Foundation when she brought me to India to speak at the leadership conference and teach workshops back in 2010.

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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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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 13, 2015

Current growth is occurring in parts of the world where “NGO” and “ONG” are commonly used terms and in regions where “nonprofit” and “charity” are more common, many nonprofits and charities are purchasing the domains (they are sold as a bundle) and having them forward to their.ORG website(s).

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 29, 2010

East-West Technology, Culture & Food Exchange: Innovation and culture sharing with NGO counterparts in India. East-West Technology, Culture & Food Exchange: Innovation and culture sharing with NGO counterparts in India. . - Open Data Storytelling: Learn how to best tell your organization’s story. Listen First!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 1, 2012

The participating NGOs include Women’s Leadership NGOs from Ethiopia I’ll be co-training with Kalyani Menon-Sen, a feminist activist, researcher and adult educator based in Delhi, India to deliver sessions on the Networked NGO, networks, and networking with social media. Feed a child, feed a nation!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 11, 2012

Note from Beth: I have the honor of leading a “Networked NGO Training” in Delhi for grantees of the Packard Foundation and have lined up some guest posts to supplement my reports from India. The Collective Impact of Love guest post by Stefan Lanfer, Barr Foundation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 14, 2012

In the LinkedIn discussion, Suzanne McDonald gives the example of Coca Cola, which is funding AIDS prevention in Africa but being sued in India for contaminating groundwater. Is the work in Africa worth the lives of those in India? So, when Geri offered up this second post about nonprofits and LinkedIn, I couldn’t resist.

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Tech Soup

JULY 13, 2012

Technology product donations, training, and nonprofit data are all part of TechSoup Global’s offering to civil society in India. Our BigTech program is run by our local partner, the NASSCOM Foundation in India. million NGOs in India. According to the Indian Central Statistical Office, there are 3.3

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2007

This NGO is at the initial stages of its development and is yet to be registered. I like how video blogging can build a bridge to the west for small ngos working in a developing country. and founded by Gaurav Sharma. The site provides contact information. This is very powerful for me.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 10, 2010

Last month, I got to attend Ashoka's Tech4Society conference in Hyderabad, India, as a guest writer for the AshokaTech blog. By coincidence, Nasscom (our partner NGO in India) was hosting its annual India Leadership Forum that same week in Mumbai, and several of our partners had staff attending the conference.

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Candid

JULY 17, 2024

Here are five takeaways about global trends in the public’s trust in NGOs: 1. In China, however, the level of trust in NGOs fell significantly from the previous year.

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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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2017

The Resource Alliance has been presenting the NGO Awards in Thailand, India and Vietnam for 10 years, but 2017 marked a substantial change in the award program’s focus and delivery.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 15, 2012

Note from Beth: While I’m facilitating “Networked NGO Workshops” in Delhi for Packard grantees in India, I’ve lined up a few guest posts.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 4, 2012

How One NGO Serves 70,000 Children. This charity also has offices in India , Nepal , and Tanzania operates its own projects and supports partners in Tanzania, India, and Nepal and works on behalf of children in places like the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Pakistan, Peru, Cambodia, China, and Bangladesh.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 19, 2015

India is home to 70 million people with different needs and abilities. WORTH, which stands for Workshop for Rehabilitation and Training of the Handicapped, aims to create opportunities for vocational training and avenues for employment for people with different needs in India.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

Also, developing countries like Egypt, South Africa, Mexico/Latin America, and India report plans to move to the cloud faster than everywhere else. While a lot of NGOs are using at least one cloud-based application, deeper use of cloud tools is relatively low. What Didn't Surprise Me.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2012

Networked NGO : I’ll be combing the two above in all my training work during 2012. I will be designing and facilitating capacity building programs in the Middle East, Africa, and India. I’m also interested in content curation and have been practicing it and teaching it, but want to take that to the next level.

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AFP Blog

JULY 10, 2008

Techtree.com India > News > General > Microsoft Helping NGOs Better Use Tech: "Bill Gates leaves behind a rich legacy in terms of philanthropy. After him, Microsoft continues to come up with such initiatives, the latest being 'NGO Connection', designed as a new online resource for use by thousands of non-profits around the world.'NGO

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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. It is one of the rapidly emerging " BRIC " economies, along with Russia, India and China.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2013

GuideStar India - Networked NGO Workshops - Packard Grantees. Here’s a collection of network maps from a couple of recent workshops – and you can see how they use color to show differences as well as different types of lines to show the relationships. Ventura County Community Foundation - March, 2013. Radio Bilingue.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 4, 2012

Note from Beth: I’m packing my bags for a trip to India to lead a training for NGOs that are Packard Grantees to kick off a peer learning project called “Networked NGO.” Flickr Photo by alshepmcr.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2007

My holy grail would be something ongoing along the lines of the project in India. I met Christina Arnold who told me about her NGO and their work in Cambodia. Since Februrary, Jay and I have traded emails about what it would take for the Sharing Foundation to do a video blog. And, of course, there are many pressing projects and needs.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 19, 2011

In India, one out of two SAP employees is volunteering on a community project focused on improving educational opportunities through tutoring or enhancing school infrastructure and resources. This strategy has evolved over the past year and includes a range of projects and programs throughout the world.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 26, 2007

After life-altering experiences in Vietnam and India, and spending the night in a displaced persons camp in Turkey after the '99 earthquake, I knew my life couldn't continue on it's current course. But I knew nothing about international relations, development, political science, civil society,et al.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 24, 2014

The nonprofit technology news this month reports on the reinvention of the wheel in India and Africa, how nonprofits are leading the wearable computing field, the privacy threat you may not have heard about yet, and plenty more. Reinventing the Wheel in India and Africa. There’s lots of interesting NPTech news this month.

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Tech Soup

MAY 7, 2013

This is technology for good news from India. Now the bad news: the international NGO sector saw a decline in online giving. It's mind boggling how something like this could be harnessed for digital inclusion and social sector organizations. Accessibility. Social Media.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

Mumbai, India: Storymakers 2017. Port Harcourt, Nigeria: Learn How Your NGO Can Use Adobe Spark and Other Storytelling Tools. Seattle, Washington: Bolder and Wiser: Nonprofit Advocacy Rights (Part 1). Asia and Pacific Rim. Wednesday, September 6, 2017. Adelaide, Australia: Storymakers in Adelaide. Saturday, September 9, 2017.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 29, 2010

Before moving to Santa Fe, he was the Director of Aid to Artisans , an international artisan enterprise development NGO. There's a woman in India, Darshan Shah, who started a weavers' co-op. He is also the co-founder of the International Folk Art Market. He created a whole genre we now know as World Music.

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