Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 4, 2011

Epic Change is inviting everyone to participate in an online collaborative art project to honor moms around the Globe. Stacey Monk, founder of Epic Change , says forget spending money on stuff to celebrate your mom on Mother’s Day. I created a heartspace using a photo of my mom and are dancing. I created [.]

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 1, 2021

If you choose not to pursue fundraising on Facebook, you are probably leaving money on the table. Be clear about the reason for the campaign and tell prospective donors where their money will go. Rent money for three families at risk of being evicted? You don’t need to over-explain the project you are looking to fund.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

What are ways of helping farmers get more money from their work? He has been on field missions to co-create solutions with governments and implementing partners in Zambia, Mozambique, Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, Nigeria, and Bangladesh. What are ways of translating early warning dashboards captured at the global level into local action?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2009

Right before Thanksgiving, the TweetsGiving effort helped Epic Change raise over $10,000 in 48 hours to build a classroom in Tanzania seeking $10 donations. Features to donate, bid on an auction, raffle and other fundraising projects will come online as buttons as they are completed. She asked her 12,500 followers to donate just $2.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 4, 2012

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. Its unique way of working is project management heavy.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

Here's a smidge from his post: If you haven't heard about it yet, be sure to check out TweetsGiving , a project of the nonprofit Epic Change. Tweetsgiving is using micro-blogging tool Twitter to raise money for a classroom in Tanzania. What, pray tell is that, you might be asking? recordings.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 12, 2013

Military Assistance Project. It wasn’t simply about throwing money at an international issue - it was about listening to local problems, local solutions, and local thought. In the end, a sustainable and locally based NGO, staffed with volunteers from across the globe, can offer education to students in a small town in Tanzania.

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

Freedom Fone in Tanzania and Ghana. Recently, Freedom Fone was adapted by two farm radio stations through the African Radio Research Initiative , a 42-month project, the aim of which was to assess the effectiveness and impact of farm radio in many parts of Africa. . Capturing Voices from the Field in Tanzania.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

The project is controversial in that it definitely has digital inclusion aims, but also is in the critical path of Facebook’s business objectives to grow its user base. ” Mpesa works on really basic phones and allows users to deposit money, and most importantly to transfer money using SMS (texting) to other users.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 9, 2014

This project is a great resource for libraries to share with patrons. The app is currently being used in Tanzania, but the developers are hoping to deploy it in other countries as well. They can set goals for building credit and saving money, hence the name. Right now, it is only available on Apple's iOS platform.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 31, 2016

Based on these projections, the nonprofit sector would need to replace the equivalent of every executive leader over the next eight years. According to a Bridgespan online assessment of nonprofit organizations, their two biggest obstacles to investing more into leadership are time and money. Stanford Social Innovation Review.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 12, 2006

They offer $100-$150 start-up grants to businesses in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania. All Flora said she needed was enough money to buy a 50 kg. Barbara also told us about two other related projects. bag of maize for resale. 61% of the business owners are women.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 30, 2017

"Meetings" come in diverse and innovative formats like Mississauga, Canada's Geek Talk — Coffee and Convo; Pangani, Tanzania's Social Media Surgery ; and Birmingham, United Kingdom's Summer Tech for Good Social in a local pub. Ottawa, Ontario: Review Progress on Data Analysis Projects. Friday, July 21, 2017.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 10, 2006

Jessica is the co-founder, with her husband, Matthew Flannery, of Kiva , a nonprofit that is using the Internet to allow everyday philanthropists, like you and me, to loan money to budding entrepreneurs all over the world. I'm sure we could get people to help them and to loan money to them, so let's just try it." What is an MFI?

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 18, 2012

Having project managed TechSoup Global's 2012 Global Cloud Computing Survey , I can heartily agree with that. Our App It Up project is a great place to see what is going on with apps and to find app resources for nonprofits and libraries. Money raised on crowdfunding sites is estimated to be 91 percent higher than 2011.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 13, 2011

Based on hitting that number two years early, we’re now projecting that we could serve perhaps twice as many students, 200,000, by the 2012 milestone date. We’re helping the environmental movement become more effective through using Miradi to manage its conservation projects and to better steward environmental assets.

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