Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 3, 2013

Guest Beneblog by Betsy Beaumon, VP and General Manager, Benetech’s Global Literacy Program. Betsy Beaumon I recently had the honor to speak at the first-ever Braille Summit , hosted on June 19-21, 2013 by the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (NLS) and Perkins School for the Blind.

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JUNE 8, 2022

The Communicator Awards honor excellence in innovation and creative work in marketing and communications. National Museum of African American History and Culture’s Talking About Race. We worked with the Urban Institute to redesign the Education Data Explorer improving their front end interface and workflow for data updates.

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Tech Soup

JULY 17, 2015

Here's a roundup of recent work to address this issue. There are new and interesting things in the works. The big recent digital inclusion news is the Federal Communication Commission's ( FCC ) proposal to extend the Lifeline Program , which has supplied discounted phone service to low-income people since 1985.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 30, 2013

The 2013 Digital Storytelling Challenge is underway! LCH is the perfect place for him to learn, teach, share, and work to make the world, or at least a small part of it, a better place. He’s worked in the nonprofit sector for eight years, mostly in the arts and technology. Michael Hoffman.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 16, 2013

My reaction was that this kind of advocacy work was a luxury we couldn’t afford. Against all odds, we—a novice bidder with a less than $1 million-a-year program—won a five-year, $32.5 We were elated and eager to get to work. I was wrong. million contract to do just that. It turned out, however, that we were too quick to rejoice.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 3, 2013

Saturday, June 1 is the National Day of Civic Hacking and Net2 organizers in Honolulu, Boston and New Haven are jumping into the fray! Many of us worked closely with Amy as she helped build the NetSquared program and I’m not the only one who has been inspired by her infectious energy and strategic insight. Tuesday, June 4.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

In 2013, CARPLS moved its case- and knowledge-management system to a customized version on Salesforce. CARPLS and the legal aid community in Chicago and across Illinois are working together to ease some of the legal fallout for vulnerable community members. These issues will continue to pile up as moratoriums end. Rosen, U.S.

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NTEN

JANUARY 30, 2013

Here is a snippet from Bill Gates: Of course, the work of our foundation is a world away from the making of steam engines. Bill Gates sees measurement as the path to follow to meet and overcome that challenge: Given how tight budgets are around the world, governments are rightfully demanding effectiveness in the programs they pay for.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 13, 2013

TechSoup is pleased to present … the Bitdefender donation program! Sophisticated protection stops emerging threats by analyzing the behavior of a given program or process in a virtual environment before it's executed. Drum roll, please! Awards and Praise. Two-way firewall. Safepay™ and privacy. Unobtrusive performance.

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NTEN

JANUARY 31, 2014

If you made a video in 2013 that had an impact in your community or around the world, we want to see it. If your organization produces creative, inspiring videos, we think you deserve recognition for the work you’re doing – and maybe even some incredible prizes. It’s that time of year again- the DoGooder Awards are back!

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Continue reading to learn how to determine what type of posts you should write, how long your post should be, how to edit your own work, strategies for getting past the dreaded writer’s block when writing your blog, and more. Find topics for your blog Make your blog work for you. Not sure what to write for your nonprofit blog?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

3) to celebrate NTEN , a small nonprofit, and its work to support the largest and most caring community of nonprofit techies to do their best work. We’ll be talking about NTEN’s great work, # GivingTuesday , and why collective action and community participation is so powerful. You can sign up for the chat here.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2015

One foundation that has been a committed supporter of our work is the Lavelle Fund for the Blind. The mission of the Lavelle Fund is to support programs that help people with visual impairments, including blindness, lead independent, productive lives. This pilot paved the way for our work in the education field.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 25, 2014

And there's a new free mobile app called Range that helps libraries, nonprofits, faith-based organizations, and others working with youth locate those free meal sites this summer. That's when the federal Summer Food Service Program steps in, offering nutritious, free summertime meals to low-income school-age youth. Stay tuned!

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Tech Soup

MAY 7, 2013

This is similar to the success of projects like Restart Romania in which social activists got help to develop online tools to address corruption in high places, and also a national website for tracking medication shortages in Romania. The annual 2013 eNonprofit Benchmark Study by NTEN and M+R Strategic Services is now out.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2014

Through projects like the Games and Learning Publishing Council and the National STEM Video Game Challenge ( [link] ), the Cooney Center explores the power of games to advance learning and engage vulnerable students. In 2013 alone, the organization ran over 100 hours of programming in New York City. Around Gender. Conferences'

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Care2

JUNE 5, 2013

How Millennials participate in various service programming from micro-volunteering to leadership programming. He organizes and produces MCON, a national conference on Millennial engagement, and he is the coauthor of Cause for Change: The Why and How of Nonprofit Millennial Engagement (Jossey Bass, 2013).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 3, 2013

Let me tell you why: I started working in the field of nonprofit technology in 1992 before there was an organization like NTEN and working alone you quickly face the problem of too much to learn alone. In the years leading up to the formation of NTEN, I was lucky enough to connect with colleagues and learn from them.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

On the whole, literature suggests that nonprofits play a large role in promoting engagement within local communities, but few studies suggest ways in which this engagement can be measured or used to create a working model for nonprofit organizations (Shier, 2014). Nonprofit organizations can measure community engagement in a number of ways.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 19, 2017

Capacity building is not a one-time effort to improve short-term effectiveness, but a continuous improvement strategy toward the creation of a sustainable and effective organization” (National Council of Nonprofits, 2017). The truth is, it takes human resources, or employee salaries, to run most programs and make an impact.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

I''m so excited to have these regular opportunities to report out from NTEN, share udpates about our work, and hear directly from all of you. How are we ensuring that programs come from the needs and goals of community members? After a year of work, the Collected Voices: Data-Informed Nonprofits report is here!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

You have to measure accurately, as well as create an environment where problems can be discussed openly so you can effectively evaluate what’s working and what’s not.” Gates shares many examples from their work. The government is now working to develop better plans for the poorer performing regions.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 10, 2019

When people ask me, I always think of the National Parks Conservation Association. NPCA is the only organization that advocates exclusively on behalf of America’s National Park system. Their team proudly carries out its mission to “protect and preserve our national parks for present and future generations.”

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Tech Soup

JULY 29, 2014

For one thing, phones allow them to look for work, housing, or medical help. That's why the FCC’s Lifeline Program has provided low- and no-income people with literally millions of mobile phones and minutes over the last few years. High-Tech Help for Homelessness. Why would a homeless person need a mobile phone?

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 27, 2015

There are very few charities I've come across that are as wide-ranging in their tech-for-good work as our French TechSoup Global partner, Ateliers du Bocage (ADB). ADB works in and around what the Europeans call the "Circular Economy." ADB's work is in three main areas: Local. The Circular Economy.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 25, 2013

The event's purpose was to join industry and government in putting into action some of the precepts developed at the 2012 United Nation’s Pan-African Forum on E-Waste in Nairobi, Kenya. There is a huge amount of good work going on in the field of electronics recycling that I had no idea about.

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Care2

JUNE 21, 2013

Next Thursday, we''re holding a webinar that will dive into the key findings from the 2013 Blackbaud Online Marketing Benchmark Study – to indicate where your organization''s performance stacks up in relation to your peers, as well as what you can be doing better to speed your journey to online success.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2012

In line with its focus on turning data into knowledge through powerful, insightful measurement and analytics of social media efforts, we wanted to share three simple tips and resources that nonprofits can put to work. How can you make your web footprint work for you and complement your social strategy?

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MAY 6, 2021

“I’m increasingly inclined to think that there should be some regulatory oversight, maybe at the national and international level, just to make sure that we don’t do something very foolish. BackRubbing doesn’t work. The most significant data breach , so far, affected 3 billion users around the world and happened in 2013 and 2014.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

Recently we announced the launch of our 2013 Communities of Impact program. We’ve been conducting research into what’s happening in these areas already to be sure our work adds value. What are your favorite examples of nonprofits or networks who are doing this work well? Now it’s your turn. Thank you!

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

By 2004 she had come back to her hometown of Baton Rouge and was working as a management consultant to a failing nonprofit. Places like TechSoup and the National Cristina Foundation put out the word that donated computers were badly needed in Louisiana, and they came by the truckload. “It just works better that way.”

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 13, 2014

2013 was a strong year for fundraising, with charities posting their best increase since before the economy plunged in 2008, according to the 2013 Charitable Giving Report. With serious disasters abroad in 2013 eclipsing those in the U.S., “It costs money to bring in money,” McGinly said. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 17, 2013

In other organizations, those that are lucky enough to have M&E staff, there is a disconnect between measurement practices for programs and communications. It is important to think of measurement integrated into everything the organization does – I’ve called it being data-informed.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 28, 2013

How does that work? “With shrinking municipal budgets and nonstop technological advancement, public libraries need to be customer-driven and ensure their programs keep pace with patrons’ evolving needs. Working with Mobile Beacon, we can start to make that access-for-everyone dream a reality,” Marlane said.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 15, 2012

We’ll continue to maintain our strong focus on sharing practical, actionable insights, as opposed to vague concepts and theory, and on keeping the conferences accessible – tickets are just $95 to $175 and include access to the full-day programs, plus breakfast and lunch. Vancouver, British Columbia – March 2013 TBA.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 15, 2014

In the days leading up to December 10, my email and Face book page lit up with information and requests to participate in 2013’s Colorado Gives Day (coloradogives.org). The requests came from organizations with which I have a connection as a former staffer, or in one case, by my son who works for the organization.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

Volunteers add so much value to the work of TechSoup. Thier ideas, unique points of view, and diverse talents provide us with critical information and expertise, and greatly enhance our program activities. We developed a web page describing the program , which involved drafting, discussing, and finalizing content.

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