Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 31, 2018

The lack of trust between NGOs and local Kenyans and the expectancy that NGOs are funded from outside Kenya are the key reasons for limited local fundraising towards NGO in Kenya. 4) What is your best piece of fundraising and online communication advice for Kenya NGOs when it comes to raising money through crowdfunding?

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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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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Fundar is a 20-year old Mexican NGO in the filed of research and advocacy to fight corruption, impunity, and to adovcate for human rights. Online marketing is way more affordable than analog and NGOs have the potential to occupy more of the online space by promoting the amazing work they do everyday.

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sgEngage

MARCH 30, 2022

As the leader of a non-government organization (NGO), you know how important it is to leverage your online presence in order to publicize your mission, draw in donations, and connect with your supporters. Tone and language for web content: Do you want your NGO to come across as fun-loving and laid back? Serious and professional?

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 15, 2006

One of the things we're doing is asking nonprofits and NGOs to share their success stories and challenges about their use (or difficulty using) emerging technology like blogs, podcasts, wikis, RSS feeds, aggregation, social bookmarking, social networking, tagging, content management and cell phones/SMS.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Our team discovered that NGO leaders and staff responded instantly to WhatsApp messages vis-à-vis email. They also find it more convenient to share scanned documents through WhatsApp as they use their phones to click pictures of documents. We asked NGO leaders to join a dedicated broadcast list.

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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. One of the most significant advances in information technology (IT) today is the growing connectivity among devices— computers, mobile phones and even televisions. Listen First!

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 10, 2009

2billion people are carrying mobile phones every day. The “State of Mobile” topical sessions will be facilitated by leaders in both the NGO and private-sector-sphere. Blow your mind. Sessions promise to cover leading theories and practices.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 9, 2021

In fact, according to the Global NGO Technology Report , 27% of nonprofits worldwide have an official policy to allow staff to work on their LinkedIn Profiles during work hours. At the very least, schedule two hours monthly to conduct fundraising outreach and stewardship on LinkedIn.

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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. Every two years since 2005, a different group of 12 such leaders have been surprised by a phone call from Barr.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2013

This event is a biannual training workshop on information, communication, and technologies for citizen media, community health, and civil society development in Mekong Region and included participants are coders, journalists, and NGO staff from Burma, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam. The camp took place in Cha-am, Petchburi, Thailand.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

This change creates an incredible opportunity that will affect the entire world, making access an affordable reality as more and more people have a device in their pocket that is capable of being an accessible e-reader: from inexpensive mobile phones and MP3 players to braille notetakers that can store thousands of ebooks in digital braille.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 9, 2011

Thousands of people - with the aid of their computers, mobile phones, and online applications - were able to do important work to save lives and bring resources where they were badly needed, without needing to travel. One of the main ones that anchors this work is Ushahidi.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 18, 2013

An NGO with A National Mandate. MyDigitalBridge is an NGO that started its work fairly recently. In Africa, Internet is wireless, and Africa uses mainly cell phone towers to provide broadband. The new 4G networks can carry much more data and so are suitable for both mobile phone and PC broadband. How 4G Works in Africa.

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Tech Soup

MAY 7, 2013

Mashable reports that the world's first mobile phone specifically designed for sight-impaired people is under development. It will be a Braille phone and it is due to come out the end of this year at an affordable price ($185). The phone is a project of Sumit Dagar and the Indian Institute of Technology. Social Media.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

In my companion blog post on Why Apps Are Green , I talked about how apps permit the use of lighter IT infrastructure like mobile phones to accomplish things we previously used to do just on PCs. Mobile phones use much less electricity than PCs, and another benefit is that they make Internet and IT readily available in developing countries.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2012

The participants, most of them women, are exposed to a variety of tech tools, which are easy to adopt and help in organizing community activities, such as: messaging via cell phones, mapping tools, remote conferencing, arranging meetings for large groups, social networking, and more.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

72% prefer to be thanked for their donations by email, 10% via text message, 6% by print letter, 6% by print postcard, 5% by social media message, and 1% by phone call. ? 42% are most inspired to give by social media, email (18%), and an NGO’s website (18%). 45% are enrolled in a monthly giving program. ?

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 30, 2012

The Cell Phone Solution: Easy Emergency Preparedness for Nonprofits. Remote Access Proves Critical to New Zealand NGO After Earthquake. CDI Chile's Plan to Restore Communications to Chilean NGOs. Cool App Roundup: Disaster and Emergency Edition. How the Cloud Can Make a Difference for Disaster Relief.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 27, 2005

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. How does your NGO use technology to support your advocacy and education work? Mlup Baitong???s It is a benefit.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 24, 2014

But we found this success actually worked against us in some cases, such as with the many instances of supporting organizations that share a physical address, legal identifier, URL, phone number, and most of their name (for example, XYZ Aquarium versus Friends of the XYZ Aquarium). Special Thanks. Also, as major v1.0 spanhidden.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 3, 2010

Upon hearing the news of the earthquake, many of us here at TechSoup Global immediately turned our thoughts to our colleagues at El Comité para la Democratización de la Informática , our Chilean partner NGO. Checking with everyone had required several hours of driving, as many homes are without phones or electricity.

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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. But ranked 96th in Internet affordability, especially for fixed broadband Internet and mobile phone Internet. Needless to say, the expense of Internet affects cloud adoption.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2011

The implementation team was in the conference room in San Francisco for the first time, plus we had in-country leaders on Skype and phone. Our first day of meetings devoted most of the morning for team building and orientation. My friends from SMEX.org, Jessica Dherre and Mohamad Najem shared this post about their visit to SF.

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NTEN

APRIL 25, 2012

I often get the comment during a leadership seminar I teach that goes something like, "Well this is all well and good for large organizations, but what about my twelve-person NGO?" The MobileActive listserv is a good one for phone-based app's. Plan with other local NGOs and create an informal board of IT advisors.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 11, 2010

For at least another day the telecentre will stay in Lota to later move on to the next town and NGO. Skype has made an in-kind donation, allowing CDI to let people make free Skype-to-phone calls. Javier offered these poignant thoughts on why it's essential to support local NGOs in a time of disaster: read more.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Cell phone coverage is built to serve people, which is why Sateliot is launching nanosatellites to provide IoT connectivity for ocean buoys and autonomous drones. NGO program. Dear Sophie: My co-founder’s a green card applicant who just got laid off. Pitch Deck Teardown: Sateliot’s $11.4M Series A deck. Competition. Conclusion.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2006

Technorati Tags: net2 , nptech , nonprofit , ngo , non-profit , e-advocacy We'll be provocative here and say, "It doesn't matter what tool you choose! The article also includes a very useful worksheet to help an organization think thru these important questions.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

PCs aren’t going away, but mobile devices (phones and tablets) are flooding in to the nonprofit workplace. That basically entails figuring out how to allow staff and volunteers to get work email, documents and other data on their own mobile devices – and what to do when phones and tablets get lost or stolen.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Your IoT devices not being able to phone home. NGO program slide. You know what really sucks? Interstitial slide. Benefit slide. Progress slide. Slogan slide. Closing slide. Three things to love. It’s always interesting to see companies that are trying to have an enormous impact on the space they operate in.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

Unless your nonprofit or NGO has specific adversaries or is being spear phished , the hacking you may encounter is probably less sophisticated and less targeted. If you must store data on a mobile device or drive, make sure the device is encrypted: Device encryption is available by default on Android , iOS , and Windows Phone devices.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 14, 2013

This time I’ll review a yet another massive new digital inclusion initiative, the launch of a new free mobile phone calling and text plan, new technology in encrypted web browsing, a new NPTech news source find, scary stats on the looming Internet of things, and the coming of the bionic eye. Well, the time is upon us. smartphones.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

Get social at an NGO Ho Ho in Vancouver and Victoria or join Pittsburgh's Bagels & Bytes for its annual party. New York, New York: Put Down Your Phone and Start a Movement: Introducing #DinnerMode. Victoria, British Columbia: NGO Ho Ho: A Holiday Party for Victoria's Nonprofits. Upcoming Events.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

Get social at an NGO Ho Ho in Vancouver and Victoria or join Pittsburgh's Bagels & Bytes for its annual party. New York, New York: Put Down Your Phone and Start a Movement: Introducing #DinnerMode. Victoria, British Columbia: NGO Ho Ho: A Holiday Party for Victoria's Nonprofits. Upcoming Events.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

NGO Pulse (South Africa). From funding challenges to the need for better governance, find out about the current state of NGOs in South Africa and what must be done for it to improve. David Malmborg from Dell Computers shares wisdom on how to maximize the life of your organization's IT equipment. TechSoup Sweden.

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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. Mobile phones. Computers and phones require power, and whether batteries or electricity, if you don’t have it, you can’t work. They include things like: Access/FileMaker databases on desktops or laptops. Tablets/Touchscreen devices.

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