Category Archives: Communities

Fundraising for Human Rights: A New Tactics Dialogue

Written by jessica. Posted on January 19, 2012. Filed under Communities, For Donors & Partners, For Local NGOs. Tagged , , , . No comments.
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This month’s online dialogue at New Tactics in Human Rights is about fundraising for human rights. Here’s the lead-in: Protecting and promoting human rights is valuable and important work. In order to do this work, organizations need financial resources. Although there are many funders that recognize the value in financially supporting human rights efforts, many [...]

Share the MADness: A Social Media BarCamp for Lebanese Civil Society

Written by mohamad. Posted on December 23, 2011. Filed under Communities, For Donors & Partners, For Local NGOs, For Trainers, News. Tagged , , , , , , . No comments.
MADskills Graduation Ceremony
More than 200 participants representing diverse youth groups, NGOs, social media enthusiasts, and activists from civil society in Lebanon, contributed to organizing and presenting sessions at Share the MADness BarCamp last Saturday. The BarCamp was marked by the diversity of its participants who came from various regions in Lebanon: Beirut, Akkar, Tripoli, Baalbeck, West Bekaa, Alley, Saida, Sour, [...]

Introducing AltCity

Written by mike. Posted on July 28, 2011. Filed under Communities, For Local NGOs, News, Stories. Tagged , , , , , , . 1 Comment.
Participants at the Digital Media workshop
“We’ve never seen something like this,“ states Munir Nabti, co-founder of AltCity, a nascent but innovative event space overlooking bustling Hamra Street in Beirut. That’s not hard to believe for anyone who has visited the space, which promises to be everything from a media café for citizen journalism to an alternative conference venue for high-end [...]