Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 8, 2010

Counterproposals have been made, governments have been engaging with rights holders, consumers and NGOs (or not!) Government delegation, as a next step possibility. and there’s a general feeling something is going to happen. So, your lawyer’s opinion may vary, and is likely to be better informed on the legal aspects.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 13, 2020

The current social media environment has caused non-profit marketers to re-evaluate their content aware of the acute conversations being had on every channel, at a global level. We must remember the world is dealing with a global health pandemic and important social conversations. Watch Video. Instagram.com/water. Twitter.com/water.

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Forum One

MARCH 9, 2023

I find the rapid developments in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) thrilling, with endless applications for our Forum One partners, but I know from discussions with my counterparts in government agencies that AI and ML can also be mystifying, and even scary. If there’s historic rain, who feels that impact the most?

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sgEngage

JULY 20, 2021

In our most recent white paper, “ Exploring Environmental Social Governance ” we include a section that picks apart the pieces of ESG, including a list of some of the items under the “social” category. Blackbaud is a global company. Want to see what this looks like in action? We have customers and employees around the world.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 9, 2018

Literacy and access to knowledge underpins just about every social good, from education, to economic development, to health, to women’s empowerment, democracy and respect for human rights. To bring the power of books to everybody on this planet, we must make books truly accessible. Third, the print book is not universally accessible.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Hunger is a global issue that affects everyone, everywhere. An estimated 811 million people are hungry globally. Supporting them is not only essential to the global community’s food supply, but also to the day-to-day well-being of the communities in which they work and live. Why Small-Scale Farmers?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2019

Blockchain for Impact: Blockchain Revolution Global Event Wrap-Up – Guest Post . For background on blockchain and why it matters for nonprofits and NGOs, this Thrive Global article, Blockchain Positive Impact: Social Enterprise and Nonprofits , provides use cases and a brief technology overview.). (For By Amy Neumann.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 16, 2011

These publisher agreements have also included permissions to distribute books outside the United States: most frequently, we are provided global rights. Now, more than 30,000 current copyrighted books are available globally on Bookshare to thousands of users. • We think this exception has worked extraordinarily well in the U.S.:

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Candid

AUGUST 12, 2021

The Global Task Force on Pandemic Response — a public-private partnership of major U.S. Indonesia now accounts for approximately one in five fatalities globally as it struggles with shortages of oxygen and hospital capacity. companies organized by the U.S. Task Force on Pandemic Response?mobilizes businesses."

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Candid

JULY 2, 2021

billion, $420 million, and $100 million, respectively, over five years in support of efforts to advance gender equality globally. According to UNFPA , lockdowns have left twelve million women without access to contraceptives, resulting in 1.4

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 22, 2020

While a board’s priority is always governance, its members may also be the organization’s best spokespeople, fundraisers, volunteers, and technical experts. Transparency about programmatic approach, results, governance, and finances are just a few ways a nonprofit can be open about its work, and this openness must start with the board.

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Forum One

AUGUST 29, 2023

A strength of Forum One is that because we have worked with so many stellar nonprofits and government agencies of all sizes we’ve seen what works. Using AI to Guide a Career Path in Government U.S. Steven brings a problem-solving approach to all his work, and excels in collaborative iteration with clients. “A Steven hold a B.A.

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M+R

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Read time: 2 minutes We don’t have to tell you the news is heavy these days, and collectively we are anxious about global violence, threats to reproductive freedom and voting access and LGBTQIA rights and crumbling democracy. But jokes aside, it’s yet another proof point that our democracy is in crisis.

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sgEngage

APRIL 11, 2024

The best way to start is to ensure that staff, especially those who have access to sensitive data, receive the appropriate cybersecurity and data security training. Respect the Principle of Least Privilege Any software that contains sensitive data must have tools for managing each user’s access to that data.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Once paid, you will be given access to the recording. The Plain Language Movement started in the 1970s based on the idea to make it easier for the public to read, understand, and use government communications. Global Trends in Giving Report. Thank you and Happy New Year! 1) Master the art of Plain Language. . GivePanel ].

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 9, 2014

This topic was center-stage at this year’s Global Philanthropy Forum. Gallucci noted that there was one statistic that matters to him: “There are 39 million girls globally that should be in secondary education, and who are not.” It provides returns for decades. This is where philanthropy comes in.

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Candid

MAY 9, 2024

Beyond making us less competitive in the global economy, growing wealth inequality puts our democracy at risk; in a nation of “haves” and “have nots,” elite interests are completely removed from the needs of regular people. This concentration of wealth in smaller and smaller corners of the U.S.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MAY 4, 2022

Access to food is more than a biological imperative, it affects our ability to learn, grow, connect, and thrive. With 690 million people dealing with hunger — nearly nine percent of the global population — the impacts of inequitable access to food and nutrition have a ripple effect that reaches every corner of society.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

He was also the principal author of a recent report you may have heard of: “ Advancing Global Food Security in the Face of a Changing Climate ,” which was released by the Chicago Council on Global Affairs in May 2014, calling on the United States government to integrate climate change adaptation into its global food security strategy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 30, 2020

It is convening groups to work on a comprehensive global standard-setting process to provide AI with a strong ethical basis that protects human rights and dignity. It envisions this as an ethical guiding compass and a global normative bedrock allowing to build a strong respect for the rule of law in the digital world.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 7, 2010

With shrinking budgets, providing increased access to the Internet and training for computer literacy can be particularly challenging for libraries and public computing centers. read more.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Governments were slowly waking up to the emergency, creating organizations like the Global Fund, one of the largest global health partnerships on the planet, but companies were still fast asleep. At that time, (RED) spoke at length about investments in global health systems, the importance of antiretroviral drugs, and so on.

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Bloomerang

MAY 27, 2021

Reading the headlines it seems that the government has stepped in to help the nonprofits sector survive. Their survey reported that only thirteen percent of charities they contacted had raised twenty percent or more from government pandemic aid during this difficult period. Global funding (including USA). based nonprofits.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 2, 2013

TechSoup Global has had a busy year so far with new ventures, exciting contests, and global recognition. That's why TechSoup Global, NetSquared and Microsoft teamed up to launch the Windows 8 Apps for Social Good Contest last November. Our global partners are also taking part in digital storytelling. Initiative.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2013

I was honored to be invited to cover this year’s Global Philanthropy Forum , a community of donors and social investors committed to international causes. ” with Jacob Harold , Guidestar; Robert Kirkpatrick , UN Global Pulse; Mayur Patel , Knight Foundation. Global Pulse @rgkirkpatrick.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 19, 2016

These new UN Sustainable Development Goals are the de facto agenda for global philanthropy, and they have a new dimension: technology targets to enable implementation. Governments, foundations, and charities learned a good deal from working to implement the previous UN goals. ensuring access to education. ending poverty.

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Candid

JULY 18, 2023

However, their philanthropic gestures are executed with millions, if not billions, of dollars that move global markets and spur governments to action. And while many or only a few may ever live up to their pledge, making their philanthropy a bit more public and accessible benefits the sector.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

These nonprofits are on the front lines, battling conditions like Alzheimer’s, epilepsy, stroke, Parkinson’s disease, and TBIs—the leading causes of disability and death globally. They rely heavily on government funding and insurance, but private giving is essential for their survival.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 27, 2021

Beyond distributing two billion COVID-19 vaccines to the most vulnerable and remote communities in the world, the Alliance aims to build vaccine confidence, champion equitable access to vaccines globally, and raise critical funds for vaccine rollout and emergency response. Purchase & Allocate Two Billion Vaccines. Vaccine Delivery!

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MARCH 10, 2022

Whether we’ve convened in-person or virtually during a global pandemic, our Salesforce.org nonprofit community never misses an opportunity to celebrate, learn, and imagine a better, more equal world — together. Here are five reasons to register today for the Nonprofit Summit this May. Reason #1: Connect with the Nonprofit Community.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 16, 2013

You see, several months later, the federal Department of Education challenged us to compete against a well-respected national nonprofit 60 times our size in a bid to provide accessible educational materials for US students who are blind, dyslexic, or otherwise print disabled. million contract to do just that. Fast-forward six years.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Among other things, it requires new models of collaboration, which is why several leading organizations recently came together to rethink core assumptions about how to address global hunger, with the audacious goal of ending chronic hunger in our lifetimes. The approach just might serve as a model for other issues, as well.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

An Interview with Ruy Fortini , Founder and CEO of Doare and official partner of the 2018 Global Trends in Giving Report. 1) The Global Trends in Giving Report is meant to help the nonprofit sector better understand individual giving worldwide, but data and statistics don’t communicate well what is happening on the ground in Brazil.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 1, 2016

In our quest to build better products and better meet the needs of the world for information, we built the most amazing system for effortless government surveillance as a byproduct. With access to the information collected by a person’s smartphone, it’s probably straightforward to figure out everything important about that person.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 17, 2014

The tools we develop for that purpose span a range of fields—from human rights , to global literacy , to the environment —but no matter what area we work in, we depend on an IP system that’s friendly to technological advances and to positive social impact. copyright law. In the U.S.,

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Forum One

MAY 18, 2010

In the past few months, world-wide political and economic uncertainty has shaken global confidence, which in turn has resulted in continued market instability and volatility. With economic recovery inching along, all levels of government are feeling the pinch brought on by reduced tax revenue. Tags: Influence Government.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

APRIL 22, 2022

No one individual, company, government agency, or nonprofit can go it alone. These programs, which include car emissions repair or vehicle replacement and access to utility debt relief assistance and home energy efficiency incentives, offer cost savings and have a positive impact on the environment.

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