Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 17, 2010

In 2010, Benetech’s Human Rights Data Analysis Group examined once hidden government documents from Guatemala and Chad that provided key evidence needed to hold former national leaders and security forces accountable for human rights violations. Guzmán’s testimony was based on HRDAG’s analysis of the 31.7

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration assigns every vehicle a Vehicle Identification Number (or VIN). This number makes it possible for buyers and sellers to track the story behind a car. If you work with an NGO, it means that donors will be able to find your organization more easily to support your cause.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2012

For example, you can hear the story about how the above Tunisian NGO went from “crawling” to “running” over the course of the program. With International trainings, it is always fun to have participants share a song or dance from one’s home country. Group Photo with Certificates.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 16, 2012

But is that the end of the story? He described a bunch of recent security breaches and probably most telling, the fact that there are no national or international cloud security standards or best practices yet. Richard Cooper of Charity Technology Trust (CTT) in the U.K. Cloud providers are still figuring things out.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

Stories of progress like this underscore the importance of setting goals and measuring progress toward them. A recent national survey of Ethiopia’s vaccination coverage reported vastly different results fromthe government’s own estimates. Gates shares many examples from their work.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 5, 2020

Large national and international nonprofits are often ahead of the curve. According to the Global NGO Technology Report , 44% of nonprofits, NGOs, and charities worldwide use WordPress.org as their content management system (CMS) for their website ( 7% use Drupal and 3% use Joomla ).

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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. Bamenda, Cameroon: How to Create Digital Stories. Taipei, Taiwan: NGO要怎麼搞群眾募資？- 綠盟經驗談. Paris, France: Forum National des Associations et des Fondations. The link need to be like so: Africa. Asia and Pacific Rim.

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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. Understanding the Human Stories to Take Action. While data points might seem like a rather impersonal way to tell these stories, done right, data visualizations such as the ones SAP has made available at www.7billionactions.org

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NTEN

JULY 18, 2013

But how do you engage the nation when franking isn''t a well-known term and it''s mostly hurting disenfranchised communities? Maybe you shouldn''t look for an NGO "out there" but ask their employees and own audience what causes THEY care about. When you choose a cause your internal team can rally around, then it''s baked in.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 29, 2010

He is also the co-founder of the International Folk Art Market. Before moving to Santa Fe, he was the Director of Aid to Artisans , an international artisan enterprise development NGO. Can you give an example, or tell a story so that if someone saw it, they'd say, "Oh! She's been in the International Folk Art Market.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

the integrated philanthropy model in honor of National Corporate Philanthropy Day. Online/Offline and Open/Closed Content A story in CIO talks about how the Internet has boosted employee productivity and points to Pew Research that shows that the boundary that existed in people???s Also announced 2.0 Commentary here.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 19, 2009

FORGE serves 60,000 refugees in three different refugee camps in Southern Africa, and is an official operating partner of the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR ). We bring communities together to identify their top problems, needs, and priorities, and solve them internally. What's one of your favorite FORGE success stories?

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 10, 2006

I was at that time working at a wonderful organization called Streetside Stories , which is a literacy arts organization with programming in various Title 1 middle schools in San Francisco. I was a volunteer for maybe 8 or 9 months and was then recruited to take a position at the organization, or at least to apply for a position here.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 4, 2010

They shared stories from their experience there, and talked about how they are trying to do development and social change work differently. Was there any individual vignette, or story, or person, or something that happened, that really touched you? I'm looking forward to so much ahead. What's the secret?

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 23, 2006

This week's Solutionary Woman is 24-year-old Heddy Nam, the Associate to the Chief Operating Officer of Amnesty International USA and co-founder of Never Again , an international network of young people working for peace. Describe the work you do for Amnesty International. Heddy also writes for the Global Youth Fund blog.

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