Browse by Tags

Blog Post: Fast Five Features for NGOs: Powerful presentations start here

Microsoft Citizenship Team

Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 gives you more ways to create and share dynamic presentations. New audio and visual capabilities help tell a crisp, cinematic story that’s as easy to create as it is powerful to watch. Here is this week’s Fast Five Features for NGOs for creating powerful multi-media presentations...

on22 Jun 2012
Blog Post: Letting Go: Leveraging Office365 towards a Serverless NGO

Microsoft Citizenship Team

Thomas Bell, Director, Integrated Technology Initiative, Ashoka: Innovators for the Public There is a room at the Ashoka offices in Arlington, Virginia, a room that would be familiar to many IT managers, filled with servers - racks and racks of servers. These servers produce lots and lots of heat, so...

on8 Aug 2011
Blog Post: Tech Talent 4 Good

Microsoft Citizenship Team

Edward G. Happ, Global CIO of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies Editor’s note: Ed Happ, CIO of the International Federation of Red Cross/Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) is one of the key individuals we at Microsoft look to for guidance and feedback on our work the NGO community...

on22 Jul 2011
Blog Post: Social entrepreneurs create to help refugees

Nathan J Peterson

Author’s Note: Reporting from the U.S. Imagine Cup finals in April we asked- are social entrepreneurs the new hero es ? The response was overwhelmingly positive so we thought we’d share some more stories of the students preparing for the Imagine Cup worldwide finals in New York this July...

on20 Jun 2011
Blog Post: Helping Sick Children Conquer Their Everest

Microsoft Citizenship Team

The staff at A Chacun Son Everest (“Each has their own Everest”) can’t move mountains, but they can give sick children the opportunity to climb and conquer them, and for more than 17 years, they’ve been doing just that. A Chacun Son Everest is a French nonprofit organization (NPO) started by doctor and...

on2 Jun 2011
Blog Post: Top five Microsoft Citizenship posts of 2010

Microsoft Citizenship Team

As the year comes to an end it’s a great opportunity to both look forward to the coming year and review what’s happened over the past twelve months. We thought it would be interesting to highlight the top stories on the blog for 2010 as voted by our readers through their visits. It...

on31 Dec 2010
Blog Post: Microsoft and Partner NGOs Building Community Technology Centers across Mexico

Microsoft Citizenship Team

2011 will mark an important year for the Microsoft Community Technology Skills Program (CTSP) in Mexico. In collaboration with several local NGOs, the country’s team is busy creating nine Community Technology Centers (CTCs) to help improve job opportunities and increase productivity for more than...

on15 Dec 2010
Blog Post: Toward a New Normal - Vision for Development Leaders

Akhtar Badshah

Last week I was in NY for the Clinton Global Initiative and this week I am in Washington, DC attending the Business Civic Leadership Center Global Corporate Citizenship Conference. There have been many conversations about global development – from the status of the MDGs to the role of capitalism...

on29 Sep 2010
Blog Post: CGI Bonus: Video on Accelerating Social Change at the 2010 Clinton Global Initiative

Microsoft Citizenship Team

Watch a video about the Ashoka–Microsoft event in New York this week

on21 Sep 2010
Blog Post: CGI: Guest Post: Accelerating Social Change at This Year’s Clinton Global Initiative

Microsoft Citizenship Team

Beverly Schwartz , Vice-President of Global Marketing at Ashoka. Each year at this time, world leaders from every sector—private, nongovernmental, academic, and everywhere in between—convene in New York City at the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) Annual Meeting. Former President Bill Clinton’s...

on20 Sep 2010
Blog Post: Update: Free webinar shows you how Office 2010 can help your nonprofit

Tom_Murphy

Editor's Note: Due to a huge response, the webinar is now full, however you will be able to review a recording of the event at: http://bit.ly/ngowebinar On Tuesday, July 27 th 2010 at 11am Pacific time (2pm Eastern) we are co-hosting a free webinar with TechSoup to provide you with advice and information...

on13 Jul 2010
Blog Post: Bridging the digital gap in Norway

Microsoft Citizenship Team

Like many European countries, Norway has an aging population. Today, 13% of the population is above the age of 67 and by 2020 it is estimated that will grow to 22%. In 2008, the Norwegian Government presented a widely welcomed parliamentary white paper “An Information Society For All” which...

on2 Jul 2010
Blog Post: Meet Benedict and Ken – two generations buzzed about technology in Hong Kong

Clair Deevey

I am just back from Hong Kong where I attended one of our NGO Connection Days. The connection days are held around the world and provide nonprofits with the opportunity to come together, network and find out about how they can use technology to support their organizations. The event in Hong Kong was...

on17 Jun 2010