Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 13, 2008

ZeroDivideâ„¢ Board of Directors Position Description ZeroDivide is seeking candidates for its Board of Directors to serve for a three-year term commencing on February 1, 2009. Entrepreneurship At ZeroDivide, we fund nonprofit organizations that employ new models of economic sustainability. We're seeking new board members.

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Classy

APRIL 29, 2021

San Francisco Ballet. Selected in 2009 as one of Puget Sound Business Journal’s Women of Influence and nominated in 2015 as one of Metro Vancouver’s YWCA Women of Distinction in the category of arts, culture, and design . Kelly Tweeddale. Executive Director. Michael Thatcher. President and CEO. Charity Navigator. Victoria Vrana.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 17, 2014

What’s the use of being in San Francisco if you can’t check out some cutting edge tech conferences now and then? As luck would have it, I got to chatting right away with Ned Malik, CTO of Vision Online , a DC-based company that provides cutting-edge information technology to government.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 31, 2009

"You cannot run a community if you're not informed. Journalism is really the act of informing communities so that they can make better decisions, that is part of the public service, informing communities so that together we can know where else we need to help." --David Cohn, Founder, Spot.us for the Big Vision Podcast.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

The organization and challenge: After years of traditional fund-raising events, Catholic Charities CYO (CC) in San Francisco decided its approach was getting stale and that it needed to broaden its audience to include opportunities for young people. Fundraising Events. Hosted parties called Red House@Your House.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

They (whoever "they" are), were spot-on when they named this the Information Age. Let's say your development staff shows you something like this: 782 first time donors in 2009. Donor demographic information. You could really make a case for more funding then, couldn't you? 129 have donated again in 2010.

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NTEN

JULY 23, 2009

"It's always on, always with you and provides personal access to information." Currently, funding for the project comes from Georgia Tech, the CDC, and Google. Internet Sexuality Information Services, Inc (ISIS), a California-based nonprofit focused on sexual health, has been using text messaging since 2006.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

The opera will be performed throughout the weekend of Deloitte Ignite (4, 5, 6 September 2009). A few months back, the San Francisco Symphony used YouTube to crowdsource auditions for a mashup peformance. Royal Opera House is crowdsourcing the storyline for an opera on Twitter in a month's time. (Hat Hat Tip Blog Herald ).

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Tech Soup

MARCH 17, 2014

It grew out of a pioneer online community in the San Francisco Bay Area called The Well , the acronym for The Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link. With initial funding of $2,500, he started the CompuMentor Project to match computer enthusiast volunteers called computer mentors with Bay Area nonprofits that needed the help.

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 10, 2022

Back in 1995, in the early days of the internet, a San Francisco innovator named Craig Newmark started a small email distribution list for friends, highlighting local events across the Bay Area. The open and direct connections among individual users would allow for the efficient exchange of goods, services, and information.

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