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Receiving the 2011 CASE Award for Enterprising Social Innovation

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Last October, I had the pleasure and honor to visit the Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship (CASE) at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business, to accept on behalf of Benetech the 2011 CASE Award for Enterprising Social Innovation (ESI). We are grateful for CASE’s recognition of Benetech's work.

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Data Digest: Moneyball Giving, Data and Philanthropy, Data for Africa

Tech Soup

The rational for "seeing data as a state" rather than a donor in Africa to help answer policymakers questions is also explained. Seeing Like a State in Africa: Data Needed. Data philanthropy efforts are reviewed and advice for writing about data is offered. Data and Philanthropy. The New Science of Giving.

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[Book Interview] Nonprofit Example of Social Media Excellence: Women for Women International

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Organization Size: Approximately 70 DC/stateside employees; more than 100 field staff employees in eight countries in Africa, the Balkans and the Middle East. We currently have nearly 50,000 Facebook fans and posting there helps us reach the most people, though the focus of how we’re using Facebook is changing (more on that below).

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Research Friday: The gift

ASU Lodestar Center

I stood in front of this classroom, thinking that I had paid $3,290 of my own money to share what I had (my education and passion) with a society that didn’t seem to care enough to repair a bench, despite having the materials to do so very, very close at hand. I tried to picture a bench like this in a “Western” classroom. I couldn’t do it.

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What is Corporate Giving? The Ultimate Guide to Earning More

Nonprofits Source

Not only does corporate giving allow nonprofits to earn more for their causes, but it also helps them diversify their revenue sources. Plus, 71% of employees say it’s important to them to work at a company that contributes to nonprofits, demonstrating that corporate giving programs can help businesses retain their employees.

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Give a shirt: Changing slacktivists into activists

ASU Lodestar Center

You don’t have to physically help to help, you simply have to help spread the word, while exuding as little physical activity as humanly possible. But does that really help? Cooper graduated from Grand Canyon University in 2011 with a bachelor''s degree in communications. Kony 2012 turned slacktivism on its head.

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Shouldn’t the Word Phone Be Removed from Mobile? The Use of the Mobile by Nonprofits for Development

Tech Soup

developing economies in Asia and Africa. countries are examining ways to use mobiles and nonprofits can help to. was used to help find missing political dissidents. For nonprofits working on fundraising - Comic Relief in the United Kingdom raised over £7m from text message donations in 2011. countries is 21%.

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