Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 20, 2016

2016 Global NGO Online Technology Report :: Download. Published by the Pew Internet & American Life Project. Most of the reports listed are based on U.S. nonprofit research, but Nonprofit Tech for Good would also like to add similar reports from other regions of the world. For Nonprofits Worldwide: 1. For Nonprofits in Canada: 1.

Social Media 181

Social Media Fundraising Media Report 181

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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NGO Survey Global Adopt 62

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.

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Social India Web NGO 92

Tech Soup

MARCH 19, 2013

We released our report on the 2012 TechSoup Global NGO Cloud Survey in September of 2012 and have now had more time to ponder the findings and talk to several of you about what you think of them. What Are the Biggest Barriers to More Widespread NGO Migration to the Cloud? Find the first and second post in this series online.

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NGO Survey Global Knowledge 48

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2012

Via Twitter, Daniela Papi , who co-founded a NGO called Pepy that supports children in Siem Reap area, introduced me to Yut who was “the best guide in Siem Reap.” But to get the most out of the experience, you need to hire a guide. ”) combined with expert knowledge made this a fantastic experience.

Cambodia 104

Cambodia NGO Children Social Media 104

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2006

I have a board meeting for my Cambodian NGO, but I'm hoping I can make it there towards the end. The session I want to attend is on November 12 from 1-2 PM PST and called "" Using Machinima for Social Change / Political Action" lead by Paul Marino.

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Second Life Machinima Life NGO 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2018

GivingTuesday India is powered by GuideStar India, India’s most reliable NGO information repository with over 8700 NGOs. Like in the US, organizations and online platforms, including Global Giving will issue matching challenges to help incentivize giving to NGOs.

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India Global Giving Celebrate 116

Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 22, 2016

What a friendly, welcoming #NGO – the Dutch office of the International Fund for Animal Welfare (@IFAW) – an organization working for the conservation of wild animals worldwide. Like the #NGO staff that I met and interviewed today, I am also uncomfortable putting my photo online. This one of donkeys caught my eye.

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Netherlands International Morocco NGO 100

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. The event took place on forums, webinars, Tweetchat, Second Life, flickr and YouTube. Listen First!

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NTC Netsquared Social Media NGO 126

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2007

Remember the homeless avatar in Second Life that got a lot of attention a few weeks back? Rik Riel and Nedra Weinreich also wrote it up and I suspect it probably inspired a few Second Life Doubter's Club posts. I also tracked down the avatar in Second Life and did an interview with the people from NGO involved in this campaign.

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Second Life Avatar Homeless Life 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2010

TechSoup Microsoft NGO Connection Day. He works for an NGO in Australia and we met on Twitter (via Eddie Harran ) prior to his visit to America to attend the Wisdom 2.0 5: Make sure your content has a social life. TechSoup Microsoft NGO Connection Day View more presentations from Beth Kanter. Connecting With Colleagues.

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Social Media Media Social Nonprofit 118

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 12, 2019

I hadn’t imagined that I would spend the rest of my life in the non-profit space, but I’ve now spent more years in this sector than in the corporate space and haven’t felt bored even for one minute! Our team discovered that NGO leaders and staff responded instantly to WhatsApp messages vis-à-vis email.

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India NGO Profit Nonprofit 97

ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 12, 2013

My days as an Ally are behind me, but the passion remains: in December of 2012 I found myself on a plane bound for a Tanzanian NGO. Toting my understanding of international development, and my NGO experience, I figured I knew to expect the unexpected. In fact, the NGO was led by them. Local problems, local solutions. I got this.

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Research Gift NGO Africa 81

Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 5, 2017

2017 Global NGO Online Technology Report :: Download. Published by the Pew Internet & American Life Project. Most of the reports listed are based on U.S. nonprofit research, but Nonprofit Tech for Good would also like to add similar reports from other regions of the world. For Nonprofits Worldwide: 1. For Nonprofits in Canada: 1.

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Social Media Fundraising Report Media 100

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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Community NGO Culture Roles 75

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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Social India Homeless Director 127

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2011

It’s a complicated equation that brings together core human rights concerns about privacy, freedom of expression and freedom of assembly and the direct practicalities of real-life struggle with the ways in which engineering, policy, legal and design decisions are made by companies, or placed upon them by the jurisdictions in which they operate.

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Communication Technology San Francisco Conference 120

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

One day I gave ten dollars to a local anti-trafficking NGO – a very small project – and someone (through my own social network) wrote to me… that [connection] evolved into a five thousand dollar matching grant for this project for women to do anti-trafficking outreach in their home villages. It became a movement of generosity.

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Giving Story Cambodia Social Media 113

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

A copyright exception allows specialist organizations (generally a government agency or disability NGO or library) to make an accessible version of a published book without having to get permission from the author or publisher.

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Accessibility Global eBook Copyright 155

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2006

Here's a few: Nonprofits & Flickr Moveon and flickr Relay for Life (American Cancer Society) - Flickr Group Planned Parenthood's Target Photos SaveRoe.Com (ok, it isn't flickr, but gives you some ideas about some interesting ways to use photos for netadvocacy) Net2 - I Want Change. Technorati Tags: ngo , flickr , net2 , nptech

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Flickr Cambodia Technorati NGO 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 27, 2005

She has been blogging about her work and life at Sreisaat Adventures in Cambodia since January, 2004. My sister was working for an NGO as a volunteer agriculturist in Cambodia and encouraged me to take a job there. Tell us about your work in Cambodia with the NGO, Mlup Baitong. Mlup Baitong???s It is a benefit.

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Cambodia Environment NGO Philippines 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2012

Based on the underlying theme of women’s empowerment with a focus on education and entrepreneurship, the 70 participants of the Tel Aviv event included representatives of NGOs active in the fields of employment, education, women’s empowerment, consultancy, and tech training from all over Israel.

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Technology Empowerment Israel Internet 111

Tech Soup

JUNE 18, 2013

An NGO with A National Mandate. MyDigitalBridge is an NGO that started its work fairly recently. " MyDigitalBridge was founded soon thereafter that to refurbish PC donations for use in schools, recycle end-of-life IT equipment, and figure out how to get broadband to rural communities throughout the country.

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Africa Namibia Digital South Africa 64

ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 17, 2011

In some contexts, nongovernmental organization , or NGO , is popular and widely used. I've heard people who work in these contexts use the term NGO to refer broadly to all organizations operating in the domestic tax-exempt sector. Nonetheless, given its currency, NGO is a candidate. Not-for-profit. Yeah, I guess, if you want.

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Nonprofit Charity NGO Public 89

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 8, 2006

There are no highways, no electricity, and villagers life a simple life. While much of the advice and examples are shaped for development ngos, particularly smaller ones, it is an excellent way for your ngo to explore the planning and use of online communities as part of your work. And, it is a free resource too!

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Resource Online Learning Community Cambodia 50

Tech Soup

OCTOBER 30, 2012

Remote Access Proves Critical to New Zealand NGO After Earthquake. CDI Chile's Plan to Restore Communications to Chilean NGOs. Image: life preserver, dibytes. Updates from TechSoup's Partner and Friends in Japan. Post Tornado, the Library Is Open in Joplin. TechSoup Partners Provide Aid to Organizations in Haiti.

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Hurricane Disaster Resource Haiti 60

Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

Education is a major focus for nonprofits and NGOs, accounting for 9% of NGO activity worldwide. views NGOs' role in fundamental economic development as crucial, especially in countries where governments are unable to adequately educate schoolchildren. Education Is a Major Nonprofit Activity.

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Brazil Map Local Impact 60

TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Waste4Change was created by founder and CEO Mohamad Bijaksana Junerosano based on conversations between PT Greeneration Indonesia, an NGO, and waste management organization PT Bumi Lestari Bali (ecoBali) to form a company that reduces the amount of waste that ends up in landfills. Founded in 2014, Waste4Change has seen a CAGR of 55.1%

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Indonesia Build Environment NGO 87

Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

David Malmborg from Dell Computers shares wisdom on how to maximize the life of your organization's IT equipment. NGO Pulse (South Africa). TechSoup Sweden. TechSoup Sweden's Andreas Ericsson built his own Instagram printer for an event. Learn how he created this useful — and very cool — hack.

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South Africa Global Sweden Australia 52

Tech Soup

MAY 31, 2013

We proudly welcome NGO partners Vietnet-ICT and the Lin Centre in Vietnam, as well as ASEAN Foundation , Kopernik Marketplace , and YCAB Foundation in Indonesia to the TechSoup Global family. Our New NGO Partners in Vietnam. Our New NGO Partners in Indonesia. The technology is shipped directly to the local NGO.

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Indonesia Vietnam Papua New Guinea NGO 54

Tech Soup

JUNE 27, 2016

Best Video Winner — Learning to Improvise Can Be Life-Changing. Learning to Improvise Can be Life-Changing , from The Detroit Creativity Project , demonstrates the highest level of technical production and takes the audience on a stirring, heartfelt journey into Detroit's schools. Please visit the site to view this video).

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Taiwan Detroit Adobe Library 63

Tech Soup

OCTOBER 14, 2011

Nonprofit Commons in Second Life. Whether you are a donor partner, nonprofit, library or NGO, or just someone who is interested in TechSoup, we would be delighted to hear from you. We are committed to providing you with relevant, timely content in addition to helping you get the most out of all that TechSoup Global has to offer.

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Social Media Channel Media Social 50

Forum One

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

Owen is based in Ethiopia; his wife works for an NGO that builds clinics. For me the highlight of the event (though there were many highlights) was a talk given by Owen Barder of AidInfo. He spoke of his vision for a "cloud of aid information".

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International Develop Ethiopia NGO 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2006

t fall into the trap of being in a life threatening situation without critical information that is only available on Yahoo and you are 200 miles from the nearest cybercafe. But that isn't the case for an ngo working a developing country or extremely rural area.

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Web Yahoo Social Cambodia 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2007

This is so much what I'd love to see happen in Cambodia - to see a video of daily life in a developing country through the eyes of people who actually live there. This NGO is at the initial stages of its development and is yet to be registered. This week's installment is about Manthan (which means ???churning???) churning???)

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Project Video India Screencast 50

Top Nonprofits

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Real-life NFT use cases. UK and a marketing support officer for the environmental NGO Become Carbon Negative. This session is for anyone interested in learning about how the technology is being used in fundraising and assumes the audience has no, or little, prior knowledge of the topic. Attendee Takeaways: 1. Risks & Responses.

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Fundraising Tanzania NGO Cameroon 52

Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

Ushahidi is an NGO headquartered in Kenya. It has eight hours of battery life to keep it going when the power runs out. Here’s some news on a now famous NetSquared alumnus project. Ushahidi was a NetSquared Mashup Challenge winner in the fabled 2008 Netsquared conference in Santa Clara, California.

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Internet Develop Netsquared Mashup 47