Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 16, 2005

My friend, Zoe Krylova, has posted a letter on her blog, Vale of Evening Fog , from a friend of a friend of a friend who is a nursing/midwifery student at Yale and spent two weeks doing relief work in Pakistan. Here is a link to UNHCR's "Pakistan Earthquake" page for more information about what is going on there right now and how to help.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

The top three countries are the United States, India, and Pakistan. This is a bright spot for those of you discouraged by low organic reach. 53% of Nonprofit Tech for Good’s fans are female and the largest age group is 25-34 years old. The top three cities are New York, Dhaka, and New Delhi.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2012

I’m honored to be working on some social media capacity projects to assist NGOs that are supporting women’s issues – from a learning exchange for Packard Foundation Grantees in Pakistan to a Women’s Leadership Network in Africa to the e-mediat that is working with many NGOs that support women and girls in the Arab World.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

” I remember working with a cohort of grantees in Pakistan which is 12 hour time zone. Use Shared Calendar To Automate Time Zone Conversions: If your team or meeting participants use Outlook or Google calendar, the time zones will be automatically converter when they accept the invitation.If

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

Post-It Note Facilitation of A Network Map - 2012 Pakistan NGOs. What’s in your facilitation toolkit? Mine includes markers , sticky notes , index cards, and flip chart paper. But wait, paper??? And, I’m not alone.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2012

Packard Grantees from Pakistan, with In-Country Team.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2011

This rebound was led by an enormous 163% increase in the International sector due to emergencies like the earthquake in Haiti and flooding in Pakistan. Online fundraising revenue grew overall by 14% between 2009 and 2010. Beyond having just a compelling cause, Millennials are looking for trust – aren’t we all?

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Because when you look around at today’s crises — whether that’s the recent floods in Pakistan or providing meals to children during the pandemic — you see nonprofits helping, solving, and rebuilding. Here are some of the highlights: Five Weeks to “A Miracle”: The Ukrainian Red Cross’s Story.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 5, 2011

Waqas Ali’s NGOs in Pakistan. Danielle Brigida’s Wildlife News (excellent example of how useful this could be for an organization’s content strategy). Sue Anne Reed’s &# Trail Blazers for Good &#. Karen Deitz’s Storytelling. Christine Martell’s Visual Storytelling. Howard Rheingold’s Infotention.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

She spent much of 2010 in Pakistan assisting women-owned garment businesses to develop their products and export potential. At the moment, their work is focused in Uganda. In addition to working on One Mango Tree, Halle often works as a development consultant focused on economic development in conflict areas.

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Care2

APRIL 9, 2012

This is not surprising since 2010 was a watershed year for many international nonprofits due to the 163% spike in fundraising around relief following the Haiti earthquake and flooding in Pakistan. On average, online monthly giving accounted for 8% of total online revenue in 2011, up from 5% in 2010.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2012

I will be working with a cluster of Packard grantees in Pakistan and India in collaboration with IIE. This year, 2012, will have a focus on designing and delivering capacity building projects with NGOs outside the US.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 12, 2006

Rod Beckstrom, prominent Silicon Valley tech executive, was in Pakistan during the great quake (although not in the quake zone when the big one hit). He passed along some interesting requirements that are well worth thinking about. I am sure that Rod's concept is doable: may be being done already deep inside Google!

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MARCH 18, 2021

Likely, most of this growth will come from China, India, Indonesia, Nigeria, and Pakistan. Today, it is projected that nearly three-quarters (72.6%) of internet users will access the web solely via their smartphones by 2025 —this is equivalent to nearly 3.7 billion people across the globe. The genesis of the mobile-first approach.

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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. It has just 20 UK-based staff. software.

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Care2

MARCH 22, 2011

The study said that the International sector drove this growth, which experienced a 163% increase in donations spurred by disasters such as the earthquake in Haiti and the flooding in Pakistan. Many nonprofits also saw an increase in the number of donations, a sign that that more people feel that economy is recovering.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

The opening session started with the lighting of a lamp and welcome from NASSCOM officials to the crowded ballroom fill with 1600 conference attendees from 27 countries, including a delegation from Pakistan. In the US, many of IT conferences are often silos of these different audiences.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2014

I have found it especially useful to do this to kick off a longer-term peer learning experience as in the example below illustrating the knowledge and expertise of a cohort of NGOs from Pakistan that I worked with during my time as Visiting Scholar at the Packard Foundation.

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AFP Blog

JANUARY 23, 2013

So far, boxes have been shipped to organizers in Ecuador, Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya, Uganda, India and Pakistan — and counting. With TEDx in a Box, individuals in the developing world and other underserved areas are delivered all the resources they need for an event, packaged into a portable box designed by IDEO.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2006

Omer Alvie and Awab Alvi are associated with the Help-Pakistan.com web site which was launched as part of the ongoing relief effort for the October, 2005 massive earthquake in Pakistan. They've launched an online campaign to support free speech of Pakistani bloggers and internet free speech in general.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

For example, basic SMS and telephone messaging are being used to educate students in remote areas of Pakistan, to control the spread of HIV/AIDS in South Africa, and to raise funds for East African drought relief. The Difference Technology Makes.

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Tech Soup

JULY 2, 2012

An example is the nonprofit Hoshyar Foundation ’s beautiful presentation about educating girls in Pakistan that went viral and got 2,000 to 5,000 hits per day. This presentation is also a great example of what can be done with multimedia (music and video) in SlideRocket.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2007

The interview above is with social entrepreneur Roshaneh Zafar, founder and managing director of The Kashf Foundation , Pakistan's third largest microfinance institution, tells Global X why she had to unlearn what she learned about economics.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 16, 2008

Rather, it is a do-good adventure story of a former mountain climber who has spent almost 15 years building schools in remote mountain villages of northern Pakistan, Afghanistan, Kyrgyzstan and Mongolia. education book Pakistan Afghanistan Kyrgyzstan Mongolia Hat tip to Beth's Blog for letting me know about Reader Appreciation Day.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 22, 2011

During the past few years, InterConnection has also participated in supplying badly needed IT equipment to disaster stricken areas like Chile , Haiti and Pakistan , and Japan. I was going to list all the countries where they send computers, but it’s just too long. Suffice to say that they’re a leader in the U.S.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 18, 2010

I also learned about this NGO from Pakistan that is using social media efficiently to communicate with its stakeholders. Someone asked what the definition of a KPI was, and since I noticed that Tom Kelly who is an expert in evaluation was following the chat, I asked him for a definition. Best definition I’ve seen.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

Certificate Awards - Pakistan NGOs. Sometimes I might document a lesson plan visually with photos and powerpoint as the example above illustrates. Learner Culmination and Celebration. Closing Circle at Workshop in New Zealand. Closing Circle. Group Photo.

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Tech Soup

MAY 26, 2011

For those nonprofits working on political engagement issues/activism - When media bans were put in place at the end of Musharraf’s rule in Pakistan SMSall , or as its founder Umar Saif, says “Twitter for SMS,” or “Twitter for. established groups on SMSall in Pakistan. Today there are over 150,000.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

For example, when a consumer of the ice-cream brand Wilcoxson's asked, on Wilcoxson’s Facebook page, if the gelatin in their cookies and cream ice-cream contained pork, their CEO responded on Facebook with “we don’t deliver outside of Montana and certainly not in Pakistan.”

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NTEN

JANUARY 13, 2011

In the aftermath of that quake, as well as flooding in Pakistan, fires in Israel, flooding in South and Central America, and countless other incidents, technology played a critical and often-life-saving role, and remains at the center of the ongoing advocacy and long-term rebuilding work in Haiti.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 15, 2005

She posted this about the Menu for Hope , a little fundraiser by food blogger, to help people affected by the earthquake in Northern India and Pakistan. I had the pleasure of sitting next to Dina Mehta , a blogger from Indian and fabulous person. I love seeing how grassroots fundraising translates to blogs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 9, 2006

million in charitable giving online through Network for Good in response to three major crises: the December 2004 tsunamis, Hurricane Katrina in August 2005 and the Pakistan earthquake of October 2005. ?? This study is based on analysis of $24.5 Tsunami relief: 82,000 donations totaling $11 million for 124 charities ??

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Shawn Admed , another free agent , a Canadian citizen, does his on the ground work in developing countries. We are also seeing the rise of “ non-state actors &# doing humanitarian work in places like Pakistan. The computer room in the First Steps for Families Shelter.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 9, 2006

Example: UNICEF's podcast, "Pakistan's Earthquake: A fifteen-year-old tells her story." UNICEF Radio correspondent, Blue Chevigny, provides narration and information about the earthquake in Pakistan combined with on the ground testimony by a young woman who lived through it.

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AFP Blog

MARCH 13, 2009

Volunteers show a generous face - The National Newspaper: "When Lola Lopez founded Aid in Motion, a Dubai-based NGO, last year to collect and donate clothes to poor rural communities in Kenya, Myanmar and Pakistan, she needed help. Before she knew it, 3,000 volunteers had.

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ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

In his books, he tells the story of founding his nonprofit and recounts tales of the struggles they faced while fulfilling their mission of providing education to girls in remote areas of Pakistan and Afghanistan. These books have given him a large and intense fan base.

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NTEN

MAY 3, 2011

Right now in Pakistan, that's one of the only ways to get food — so thousands of children are going hungry." "On For example, what if we told a story of a single child before introducing the thousands at need, or spoke of one endangered animal instead of citing how many there are?

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