ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 12, 2013

It wasn’t simply about throwing money at an international issue - it was about listening to local problems, local solutions, and local thought. I learned I could and should offer assistance to local citizens who asked for it. Local problems, local solutions. I worked with a locally founded (and inspiring!)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2011

My role over the past year been in the areas of: program design, design and delivery of a train the trainers intensive workshop in-country last March (see posts #1 , #2 , #3 ; #4 ); and develop and support the target NGO curriculum (intensive strategic and skills based curriculum). I’d like to share some of these below.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

Many of you know that I have had the honor of working with IIE on some amazing Networked NGO and social media skills capacity building and train the trainer projects in the Middle East over the last 2-3 years. Department of State, Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, Office of the Middle Eastern Partnership Initiative (MEPI) and managed by IIE.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 12, 2019

In this interview, Pushpa discusses her journey prior to founding GuideStar India, her role in helping NGOs and how WhatsApp is driving strong communication among stakeholders. I was working in financial services and my role was in the Managing Director’s office, which enabled me to gain an overview of running a large organisation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2012

My experience so far has been to develop curriculum – mostly focused on technology that is adapted in different countries by local organizations. I facilitated a session that introduced networks, networking, and the Networked NGO. Network assessment. View more presentations from Beth Kanter.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 7, 2022

But although her fundraiser raised plenty of money, Khi realized there was no viable NGO to distribute the supplies on the ground in the middle of a fast-moving war zone. This led her to creating the Sunflower Relief NGO. The next few weeks were a blur. Seven months later, she now has a team of 200+ people spread internationally.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2007

Maybe my next visit to Cambodia I will have time to get to local market and pick some up for souvenirs. The afternoon also included a small group role play exercise. " The young woman in the pink shirt suggested that we create a role play around how media might help resolve the issue of domestic violence. john, u think i???m

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Tech Soup

JULY 18, 2017

Now that TechSoup’s Local Impact Map has officially launched , let's discover one of great new organizations featured there. Education is a major focus for nonprofits and NGOs, accounting for 9% of NGO activity worldwide. Not enough people really know what NGOs and nonprofits do for the world. Even in the U.S.,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 5, 2017

That group used our gap analysis exercise to find an opportunity to give refugees on the move a chance to add value to local communities while maintaining the dignity of earning an income and doing the work they engaged in at home. Know your role.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2011

Last week, I participated in three very intense days of project, curriculum, and online community planning for a new project, E-Mediat , a multi-stakeholder capacity building project for NGOS and Social Media in the Middle East. Multi-stakeholder projects with many organizations, people, and roles are complex.

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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. The community itself plays a role in building a peaceful community. Our New NGO Partners in Indonesia.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

I’m the lead for Zoetica where my role is to deliver training, advise on the curriculum and coaching methods, model transparency, and serve as meta network weaver. The group has an impressive breadth and depth of expertise, including NGO capacity building, social media expertise and training design and delivery.

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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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Top Nonprofits

OCTOBER 22, 2021

He has experience on the front lines of the nonprofit industry from his time as a youth worker and he brings a wealth of experience in supporting the tech stacks which power the nonprofit industry after five years in various roles at Blackbaud. UK and a marketing support officer for the environmental NGO Become Carbon Negative.

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Top Nonprofits

OCTOBER 22, 2021

He has experience on the front lines of the nonprofit industry from his time as a youth worker and he brings a wealth of experience in supporting the tech stacks which power the nonprofit industry after five years in various roles at Blackbaud. UK and a marketing support officer for the environmental NGO Become Carbon Negative.

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

Imagine this scenario: You’re an NGO working in an African country to advocate for clean water. Those of us who collect data in low resource areas continue to evaluate technology’s role in finding the proper solution(s) for collecting data. Sometimes, it’s having the solution use local languages or other appropriate cultural marks.

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

The Corps Network National Conference is an annual gathering of national, state, and local leaders in the fields of workforce development, community service, and conservation. State/Local / #DCNP2019 / @DMANF. State/Local. State/Local / #NPSummit19 / @TogetherSC. State/Local. State/Local / #AFP19PP / @AFPFL.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 1, 2023

Or maybe your nonprofit is actually an NGO based in another country. If your shelter offers wrap-around services or plays a key role in connecting those you serve to other vital services, talk about those, too. In this section, talk about whether you have employees or are all-volunteer. Do you have (or will have) a facility?

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Your local NetSquared group is here to help with free, in-person events being held across the U.S. Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso: Monthly Meeting of Local Members. Morogoro, Tanzania: Role of ICT for Farm Management. Taipei, Taiwan: NGO要怎麼搞群眾募資？- 綠盟經驗談. Feeling overwhelmed? and the globe. Monday, October 2, 2017.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 9, 2007

local governments for their activism. In Cambodia, NGO staffers were eager to learn about Web 2.0 activist organizations need to increasingly adopt the role of convener and connector supporting rather than dictating the work of activists. With Web 2.0

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Qgiv

MARCH 5, 2024

The diverse amounts of nonprofits play a vital role in addressing societal needs and helping their communities. What is an NGO (Non-Governmental Organization)? An NGO is a type of nonprofit organized at the local, national, or international level that works independently of any government involvement.

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NTEN

MARCH 4, 2011

That's how many different laptops there were on display at my local Best Buy (not counting the Pommes de Cher ). Externally, he works with the charitable sector to further the effective use of information and communications technology throughout the NGO community. Forty-two," I muttered. I should have known.

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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. So, in that case, they're overwhelming local markets with American product. As co-founder of the Global Center for Cultural Entrepreneurship, what role does it play in the field of cultural entrepreneurship?

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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. So give your local organizer a hug next time you see them! Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso: Monthly Meeting of Local Members. Taipei, Taiwan: 民眾、社群與 NGO 的協作：飲水地.

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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. Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso: Monthly Meeting of Local Members. Port Harcourt, Nigeria: Learn How Your NGO Can Use Adobe Spark and Other Storytelling Tools.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 23, 2006

What should AIUSA’s role be in improving or resolving those situations? The event brought together academics and practitioners in the field of education and peacebuilding from local, national and international perspectives to see what similarities and differences there were in our approaches and what we could learn from each other.

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Tech Soup

MAY 4, 2011

As the weeks pass, the disaster recovery is increasingly shifting out of the hands of professional first-responder organizations into the hands of the local NGO community. The nonprofit sector in Japan has a major role to play now in providing services and support to the devastated local communities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

I’ve just spent the last couple of days in Nairobi, Kenya because I’m a board member of an NGO based here, Ushahidi , an organization that builds tools for democratizing information and increasing transparency. I decided to stay a few extra days and facilitate a workshop on the Networked Nonprofit for local NGOs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2012

The project kicked off a year ago with a seven-day Train the Trainers intensive in Beirut, Lebanon for the in-country teams who would localize and implement the curriculum for five 3-day workshops that I designed. Chema Gargouri, In Country Director, Tunisia being interviewed by the local radio station in Fez, Morocco.

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Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

We know we all have a role to play in turning the tide on climate change, so we’ve rounded up the changes that the current scientific evidence suggests will have the biggest impact on your personal carbon footprint. The Planetary Health diet is a guideline developed by independent NGO commission ‘Eat Forum’ for the UN.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 2, 2021

So, yes, I think the Global NGO Technology Report found the majority of nonprofits do agree social media is effective for creating brand awareness. The Boards Role on Fundraising, oh, yeah, I love that topic. Julia: And there is a role and they should fundraise. Julia: I haven’t met her. I need to meet her.

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Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

We know we all have a role to play in turning the tide on climate change, so we’ve rounded up the changes that the current scientific evidence suggests will have the biggest impact on your personal carbon footprint. The Planetary Health diet is a guideline developed by independent NGO commission ‘Eat Forum’ for the UN.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 4, 2010

When we look at environmental challenges, we can't avoid the question of women's role within designing the solutions. While many of the women had traveled the world, many of them had also devoted their lives to local solutions. Women hold these toxins in their body, and this is what they have to pass on to their children.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 27, 2025

Perez Tomas , left, at his local seed bank. Tomas local branch of the seed bank, run by a committee of local farmers of which he is a member, has seen his community through crop-destroying frosts, floods, heat waves, and a severe seed shortage in 2018. Women have always played a key role in seed saving and management, he says.

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The AI Alignment Forum

MARCH 28, 2025

We have people role-playing. Or, imagine an individual recruited by a secret service, where the requirements of the role force them to adopt a different identity. The church or ideology doesn't have a singular, localized "mind," but it can still exhibit goal-directed behavior and forms of self-preservation and propagation.

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