Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 13, 2009

A: There are a lot of people these days who want to help other people out. People working with each other. Other people are good at other things. Our government's public servants have been released to their jobs better. White House blogs, open government initiatives. People like me help get the word out.

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sgEngage

JUNE 13, 2022

In other, more rare occasions – such as the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan in August 2021 – we’ve felt compelled to proactively take action based on changing external circumstances. Organizations may react differently to the same situation, something Candid learned in our response to the situation in Afghanistan.

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ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

On this day, people across the globe are asked to go without shoes in order to feel what it is like for a child to go without shoes. Such clever attention-getting strategies have exposed numerous people to TOMS’ message in a unique way that is bound to stay with them and are crucial to TOMS’ business and philanthropic success.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

Below is an edited transcript from a September 5th phone interview with Marisa for the Big Vision Podcast. While my objective was to make positive change, when I came at it from a place that was angry, I saw - I think this has been visible to many people who have worked in social change movements - that my anger was not growing the movement.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 25, 2008

"I think that people have long associated feminism with older white women and the idea of bringing that back to women of color, and bringing it back to young women of color and asking them what it means is an exciting time for me." The baby boomers are retiring and young people are kind of coming up into that movement.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 12, 2013

Trained as a lawyer, Marianne helped develop human rights strategies for the governments of New Zealand and Timor-Leste, has worked as a Policy Advisor for Oxfam, and spent two years working in human rights in the Gaza Strip prior to her time in Afghanistan, where she served in the United Nations mission (2005-2007).

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

I love referring people to you. And I’m guessing people want me to pipe down. I mean, who doesn’t want more time and more money and more people and more skills and more expertise and more influence, right? So more than 80% of all this money that’s donated to charities comes from people, comes from people.

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