Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

Our deepest sympathy goes out to all those affected by the typhoon in the Philippines. We appreciate the important work that nonprofits are doing to provide aid and ensure a swift recovery. If you are a Blackbaud customer and are in need of assistance, please call 1.800.468.8996.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 20, 2004

The presentation by Smart Communications of the Philippines was especially cool: they are turning the cell phone into a wallet for the poor. Earlier this year, I remember buying roasted cashews from a woman on the street in Maputo, Mozambique, who had her wares balanced on her head.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

Relief organizations and first-responders are mobilizing to provide aid to those affected by Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines. The Philippine Red Cross is on the ground providing relief to those in affected areas. Help Habitat for Humanity re-build the Philippines after Haiyan destroyed over 3,438 houses (as of November 10).

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 13, 2007

This tremendous growth is due in large part to the continued use of Martus by our partners working in Guatemala with the National Police Archive, and projects gathering data about Burma, Iraq and the Philippines.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 25, 2008

The Philippines has had cell phone banking for years. Other great comments from users of M-Pesa directed at traditional banks: You closed our accounts and chased us like dogs. Don't bark at us. The sly person is in trouble when the fool gets smart. And, Kenya is not the only country to discover this opportunity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

Join me to discuss charitable giving in the Philippines, #GivingTuesday, and how I’m inviting Conan O’Brien to “ get out the give ‘ for #GivingTuesday on Wednesday 11/13 at 1 p.m. I think Conan should join the #GivingTuesday movement and get more followers. EST. Join the Conversation here: [link].

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 15, 2010

Cebu, Philippines. I hope you’ll pause at each one and think about the way water is changing the lives of those in the pictures and community around the world: 350 Rising Sea Level Campaign at Kuala Terengganu, Malaysia. 350 action in Oman Dive Center. Hulhumale Maldives. Find more pictures and stories from #101010 and 350.org

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

Using photos for online organizing is not limited to the US, it is global. Here is a recent example from Global Voices Online reporting on how activists in the Philippines used selfies to protest train fare hikes. This campaign combines the popular selfie with the time honored hold a sign meme. Family is Familia.

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AFP Blog

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

Tech aids Philippines disaster relief | ITWeb : By Joanne Carew, portals journalist. In the aftermath of the storm, which hit the Philippines last week, relief workers, survivors and international aid organisations are turning to technology to co-ordinate their efforts.'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 27, 2005

Because it relates to blogging and because part of my extended family is from the Philippines (as well as Cambodia) here goes: By way of Global s Online , a Google Bombing campaign to change the online image of women from the Philippines and take back the keyboards flipina and Philippines. Add the image to the post.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 13, 2011

New York City, Colombia, the Philippines, and Nepal. Today, the program works in Washington, D.C., You can listen and subscribe to the Big Vision Podcast via iTunes , or on the player above. If you have suggestions for people I should interview, please email me at britt AT brittbravo DOT com.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 29, 2009

She is currently a Kiva fellow serving a three-month tour in a rural section of the Philippines. Sloane Berrent, a cause-based marketing consultant who works with nonprofits and social cause organizations. Schlemminger, a strategic marketing communications professional who integrates best practices in branding, PR and social media.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

They rescue abused, abandoned and neglected children in the Philippines and provide a home and future for them through rehabilitation and education. Tammy Fairweather is a 2021 graduate of the Master of Nonprofit Leadership and Management program at Arizona State University. She is the executive director and co-founder of Arise Ministries.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 11, 2014

The high Internet growth countries are now India, Indonesia, Nigeria, Mexico, and Philippines. Here's what I found: Internet growth: 2.6 billion people are now using the Internet worldwide, 618 million of them are in China. Global Internet adoption growth is actually slowing compared to previous years.

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AFP Blog

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Iowan helps provide high-tech eyes of disaster relief in Philippines | Des Moines Register Staff Blogs : Harwath is one of four Global DIRT members currently on the ground in the Philippines.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 24, 2010

12,000 specific geographic locations were coded in 42 Sub-Sahara African countries, 27 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean as well as Indonesia, and the Philippines (a selection of Africa-wide projects were also coded). This can have a significantly positive impact on efforts to improve accountability and aid effectiveness.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2006

SaveGuimaras is a group of individuals who are dedicated to raising awareness on the recent oil-spill tragedy in Guimaras, Philippines. Friendster is a very popular social network in the Philippines. Mobile technology is more popular in the Philippines and we are looking into how we could use this platform. BTW, we are the no.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 27, 2005

Born in Roxas City, known as the seafood capital of the Philippines, she graduated from the University of the Philippines with a degree in mass communications. She has been blogging about her work and life at Sreisaat Adventures in Cambodia since January, 2004. She moved to Cambodia in April, 2000.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Before pursuing his MBA, he worked in the textile manufacturing sector in the Philippines where he did front-line operations, quality control, sales and marketing. Benetech has given Stan access to the nonprofit world and allowed him to gain more experience in marketing.

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NTEN

MARCH 13, 2015

Typhoon Haiyan hit the Philippines in November 2013, killing more than 6,000 people. Innovation and adoption of new technologies is not without controversy. For example: How does your nonprofit leadership feel about unmanned aerial vehicles?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 10, 2012

Fred Uytengsu , CEO of Philippines-based Alaska Milk Corporation said, "I am taking part in the CEO Endurance World Championships as yet another opportunity to challenge myself physically and mentally."

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

APRIL 26, 2007

Based on market research in China, India and the Philippines, consulting firm McKinsey & Co. Going beyond the merely anecdotal, the article tried to put some metric on the role mobile technology plays in growth in these countries. percent, or around US$12 billion for an economy the size of China.

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Tech Soup

MAY 31, 2013

They are all part of TechSoup Asia , which serves charities in the Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand — and now Vietnam and Indonesia. 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.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 4, 2012

billion) and the Philippines ($10.1 The report indicates that these sources will increase as the economy recovers and “are now more than three times larger than official U.S. aid, making up nearly 30% of total U.S. financial flows to the developing world.” 7 Mexico is the largest recipient of remittances from the U.S., receiving $22.2

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2009

Sloane Berrent, a Kiva fellow, social philanthropy activist and a former executive at Causecast who’s currently serving a three-month tour in the Philippines. Ken Banks, a Hewlett Foundation grant recipient who focuses on using mobile technology to foster positive social and environmental change in the developing world, particularly Africa.

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AFP Blog

JULY 22, 2014

''Using technology to do good'': Disaster Tech Lab - Independent.ie : An Irish NGO has brought emergency communications systems to disaster-stricken countries like Haiti, The Philippines, and Sandy-hit Long Island since setting up in 2010.'

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AFP Blog

MARCH 14, 2012

Microsoft launches TechSoup in PHL | GMA News Online | The Go-To Site for Filipinos Everywhere : As Microsoft Philippines celebrated NGO (non-government organization) Connection Day, it simultaneously launched TechSoup Asia which aims to help organizations acquire technology information and resources.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

There are now 990 actively engaged Fellows— across the five focal countries of Ethiopia, Nigeria, India, Pakistan, and the Philippines—regularly participating in the Leadership Development for Mobilizing Reproductive Health network activities.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 4, 2012

It helps endangered Asian children get off the streets in Cambodia, Philippines, Vietnam, India, Indonesia, Pakistan, East Timor, Jordan, Bangladesh, and Myanmar. Their great website is available in Japanese, English, and French. The organization has nine full-time staff.

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Top Nonprofits

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

We had humble beginnings 40 years ago in the Philippines and our founders Bill and Kathleen Magee. He had heard that in the Philippines, there was quite a few kids that needed cleft palate or cleft lip surgery and cleft lip and cleft palate surgery is a specialty. Bill is a retired plastic surgeon.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 17, 2013

Support in the Philippines is needed and this post has compiled a list of nonprofit organizations providing aid. Check out this post: Nonprofit Content Marketing – Benchmarks, Budgets and Trends for 2014 and don’t miss the associated Nonprofit content marketing infographic. Every dollar helps.

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AFP Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

Social media keep flood victims connected: "(09-28) 18:49 PDT -- With their homes and offices flooded, landlines overloaded and electricity knocked out, residents of the typhoon-stricken regions of the Philippines managed to report news of their plight to the world by using cell phones and social networks."

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AFP Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

The UN commissioned the Digital Humanitarian Network to track the real-time effects of Typhoon Pablo in the Philippines. Google’s Superstorm Sandy Crisis Map tracked the course of last winter’s storm, with video footage, evacuation routes and emergency aid centers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

Simplywired is the development blog of Dessie, an ict in development advocate from the Philippines who asks, " Is wi-fi good for developing nations? New (To Me) Blogs Living on $2 Day @ UMW students will live on $2 a day if you donate money to Kiva to support a loan to Gurbat in Azerbaijan.

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AFP Blog

MARCH 11, 2015

For kidney’s sake, take to drinking (water) | Inquirer Lifestyle : "To mark World Kidney Day (WKD) on March 12, the Philippine Society of Nephrology (PSN) is encouraging netizens to take up the challenge, which would require them to take their photos while drinking a glass of water and posting the pictures on Facebook, Twitter or other social media (..)

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Tech Soup

APRIL 3, 2015

Manila, Philippines: Social Media Surgery. Wednesday, April 15, 2015. Singapore: Office 365 for Nonprofits. Monday, April 20. Melbourne, Australia: Content Marketing for NFPs: Get Results! Tuesday, April 21. Wednesday, April 8, 2015. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Social Media Surgery — Hands-on Help with Social Media.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 22, 2015

In December 2013, drones from the NGO Direct Relief were put to work assessing damage and participating in search and rescue operations in the super typhoon Haiyan-stricken Philippines. In the U.S., firefighters now use drones to spot wildfires and gauge their movement. There is potential to use them fight fires as well if the FAA permits it.

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