Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 15, 2012

These are the best numbers we’ve seen since the beginning of the Great Recession in late December 2007. Amnesty International is a global movement of people fighting injustice and. The profits from the BeadforLife Store go into training and community programs in Uganda and education in North America. percent to $586.1

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

No factor more important than the feeling we get when we help people. Helping people and serving the community can feel like an uphill battle, yet it becomes so much easier when we have someone by our side, helping and motivating us as we climb the hill. He has been in the nonprofit sector since 2007. Carey School of Business.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 17, 2016

For many years, I served as a board member for an NGO, The Sharing Foundation , that manages an orphanage and many other programs in Roteang Village, including an education program. The proceeds of my two books have been used to send two young women to college through the Sharing Foundation’s program.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 7, 2013

Bookshare International Library We’re always thinking about new ways in which Benetech could go deeper and help many more people. Bookshare , our flagship literacy program, is the world’s largest accessible library and currently serves more than 230,000 members with visual and learning disabilities.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 4, 2023

As founder and chief leadership development officer at the Kansas Leadership Center, respectively, O’Malley and Fabris McBride have led thousands of people through programs to help them engage in the act of leadership. A movement that inspires more people to practice leadership where they can and when they can.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 27, 2007

Just got a press release this morning announcing the launch of the YouTube Nonprofit Program ! YouTube’s 2007/2008 Clinton Global Initiative commitment enables nonprofit organizations (in the U.S. YouTube’s 2007/2008 Clinton Global Initiative commitment enables nonprofit organizations (in the U.S.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 30, 2023

As founder and chief leadership development officer at the Kansas Leadership Center, respectively, O’Malley and Fabris McBride have led thousands of people through programs to help them engage in the act of leadership. A movement that inspires more people to practice leadership where they can and when they can.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2007

Each funder gave an overview gave an overview of their program. Solicitation on the streets for programs at the k-12 level to train students to use cyber tools for science. Partners in Learning program -- gave stats. Program is world-wide. MacArthur Foundation. Talked about the openness to games and the need for research.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

In September 2007, the U.S. Department of Education Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) selected our successful Bookshare library as the provider of accessible materials to every student in the U.S. Benetech is working on a new program that will serve these students who are not qualified under the copyright exemption.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

In addition, for the book, the authors interviewed over 80 people with whom Campbell also worked. For example: Value people and make people feel valued – Get to know your employees as people – with lives beyond work. Give people the room to debate – Strive for the best idea – starting with ensuring all ideas get heard.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 14, 2008

Over the past week though, there have been little glimpses of happiness amid the disasters, scandals and economic bad news - stories about the CNN Heroes: Ordinary People Extraordinary Impact. Since May 2007, he and his crew have aided thousands of victims at 15 sites across the United States -- free of charge." Her nonprofit St.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2015

The mission of the Lavelle Fund is to support programs that help people with visual impairments, including blindness, lead independent, productive lives. The Lavelle Fund also supports programs benefiting the developing world. That’s what a lot of foundations would love to see happen: in this case, it’s happened multiple times!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 27, 2008

I kinda thought that was surprising, but in thinking about what I write, I realize that people could get the wrong idea (or, more accurately, fail to get the right idea.) And, I guess truthfully, the blurb on my consulting site is kinda dry. Gotta work on that. So, what do I do?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2012

My last visit to Cambodia was in 2007 and I remember how frustratingly slow the wifi felt compared to high speed access I enjoyed in the US. Also, Twitter was really helpful in making connections to places and people to see in Cambodia once in country. Headed to phnom tamao wildlife sanctuary instagr.am/p/N5Kf7LlZpl/. p/N5Kf7LlZpl/.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 29, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Goodbye Microsoft… March 29, 2007 Just today, I received in the mail some Sony Vaio Picturebook laptops, courtesy of Gavin’s regular potlatch program.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 4, 2019

In addition, for the book, the authors interviewed over 80 people with whom Campbell also worked. For example: Value people and make people feel valued – Get to know your employees as people – with lives beyond work. Give people the room to debate – Strive for the best idea – starting with ensuring all ideas get heard.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 2, 2012

Bookshare, Benetech’s pioneering digital library for people with print disabilities, celebrated its 10th birthday last night with a terrific party that was attended by many of our long-time friends and supporters. Napster made me think of how peer-to-peer information sharing could help people with disabilities. copyright law.

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Classy

APRIL 29, 2021

Leads the innovative efforts at National University for military, veteran, and military family educational degree programs . Bush Presidential Center Stand-To Veterans Leadership Program Scholar . Chief Equity and Programs Officer. World Food Program USA. Nonprofit Leaders. Abby Maxman. President and CEO. Oxfam America.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 25, 2008

In many ways for me, the most important aspect of free and open source software is that it does just that – it levels the playing field so that people and organizations with few resources can have access to quality tools to do what it is they need and want to do in this software-driven world. And in that world, I am a realist.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 18, 2017

It is no secret that nonprofits struggle to make ends meet when it comes to costs that cannot be directly attributed to a specific program. In their 2007 Action Guide, Grantmakers for Effective Organizations (GEO) writes, “Inadequate infrastructure leads to inadequate organizational performance. As Sharon King, president of the F.B.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 2, 2008

So how did people like these? Raiser’s Edge, eTapestry and iMIS are going to have to get themselves into a special tutoring program, if they have a hope of making it. I also have to wonder (shudder) how many home grown Access and Filemaker databases fall into the “Other&# category of the survey, almost 20% of the total.

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Robert Weiner

JANUARY 22, 2010

Efficiency seems simple enough: if you don't have the right resources (people, tools, training, procedures) you will waste time and money. Among other things, TARP found that: Twice as many people are told about a bad experience as are told about a good one. Thirteen percent of them will tell at least twenty other people.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

Fine Blog – "The Case Foundation has just released an evaluation of their innovative “Make It Your Own&# program. The Make It Your Own program was a grant program in 2007 created by the Case Foundation to promote “citizen centered&# approaches to local community building. ."

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Judi Sohn

JANUARY 29, 2012

I love the people I’m working with now just as much as I did before. Outlook 2007 isn’t that bad. The people directly responsible for hiring me had no idea when they hired me. I’m happy to say that the reality is turning out to be better than I was imagining back then. I love my job.

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Global Giving

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

In celebration of the occasion of getting to meet this huge hero of mine, I’ve outlined five ways that companies, institutions, and nonprofits can harness technological innovations to advance financial inclusion and empower the world’s most vulnerable people: 1. It’s making life better and business easier for people everywhere.

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Top Nonprofits

MAY 6, 2021

The aim here is to increase social impact and scale and that could mean something like “serve more people,” or “provide more value for constituents.” Another way to say this is one in seven people in the U S live in poverty. And one in seven people are in it. We’re going to put people in jail for drug offenses.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 3, 2009

In reviewing Plone, and talking with people who develop for Plone, I was convinced that the reason that Plone had fewer reported vulnerabilities was not just because it was less popular – it’s because it (and Python and Zope) was more secure by design. Naturally, you’re now expected to say why. . - 3 Dave Keays 04.03.09

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 17, 2006

These are Application Programming Interfaces, and they are a relatively new part of the way that Web 2.0 I have dreams of applications that combine, say, available bed space in shelters and soup kitchens, all mapped for people to find. It’s all possible if people freely share the data they share anyway on the web in an API. {

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 15, 2007

October 15, 2007 If you are new to this site, you might want to read more , and subscribe to my feed. The geek in me thinks the Convio APIs are wicked cool, since they allow you to do client programming via AJAX, as well as more standard server-based programming. They work by REST via POST, or JSON.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 5, 2010

The first social networking tool the organization utilized was MySpace is 2007. Which tool has been surprisingly useful in getting out the word about your organization and its programs? Following that, Women for Women International moved on WordPress, Facebook, YouTube and Twitter throughout 2008-2010. That would be me!

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Double the Donation

JULY 15, 2021

This powerful integration provides another touchpoint for fundraising organizations to target the 18+ million individuals who work for companies with matching gift programs. Likewise, we believe that donor prospecting tools should help you connect your cause to more incredible people who can give to the mission.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 24, 2011

I’m fundraising for the Sharing Foundation , that supports children and young people in Cambodia. Education is the path out of poverty in Cambodia. The Sharing Foundation has a full range of educational programs for children, from pre-school to college sponsorship. HELP ME SEND SOME CAMBODIAN KIDS TO COLLEGE! DONATE HERE !

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 13, 2011

Dance 4 Peace is a conflict resolution, and civic education program that promotes empathy, understanding, mediation skills, anger management, and emotional and civic engagement through dance in youth around the world. Dance 4 Peace began in Bogotá, Colombia as part of Sara's Fulbright Scholarship project in 2007.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 22, 2010

Among the people I’m privileged to call a colleague here at Benetech is Viji Dilip, the International Program Coordinator for our Bookshare International service. I wanted to give back to society, to help people who didn’t have vision with their education so that they could become economically and socially independent."

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 24, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Vendorspeak August 24, 2007 One of the things I’ve noticed recently is that my blog is getting the attention of software vendors. I guess that’s a good thing. Maybe it means I have “arrived&#.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 13, 2010

I know our YouTube channel started in 2007. Which tool has been surprisingly useful in getting out the word about your organization and its programs? When I came on board a couple of years ago, I think people still didn’t understand what social media was. Then, invite those people to help you with social media.

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Care2

OCTOBER 18, 2007

”) requires nonprofits not to focus entirely on bringing people to the nonprofit’s site, but to expand this focus to include taking the NPO’s mission outward to other communities on the Web. So why is he leaving Convio?

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