Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

The Marrakesh Treaty was signed last year, and now the efforts are ramping up to ratify and implement the Treaty, with the goal of helping overcome the book famine faced by people with print disabilities. Imagine a library for people with disabilities where you can’t have a book on your shelves if a patron could buy the book in that format.

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Achieve

MAY 21, 2017

As nonprofit and cause leaders, we wish every individual had the opportunity, interest, and time to meet the people we serve and see the impact of our work in real time. Because people are busy. uses VR to give donors an up-close and very personal look at the crisis of poverty in Africa, while. What’s an organization to do?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 5, 2010

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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Robert Weiner

JULY 22, 2011

Below are few list of tracking numbers you can track from UPS website to confirm people like you who have received their payment successfully. you are advised to contact our correspondent in Africa the delivery officer McCulley Terence with the information below, Email: terencemcculley@yahoo.cn. nothing more! Name: Donna L.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 16, 2011

He forecasts that in a couple of years smartphones will become powerful enough to run a full desktop operating system that can do virtually everything a computer can do, including photo editing and high definition video conferencing. The proto example is the Motorola Atrix smartphone.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2011

I’ve had the opportunity to work in Canada, Australia, Cambodia, Romania, India, UK, and Africa and enjoy the extra dimension of understanding different cultures as part of the instructional and learning process. One thing I learned is that is okay to do “real-time translation,&# and to be transparent about. A cellist!

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 31, 2006

Many social entrepreneurs actively avoid telling stories about themselves: they tell stories about other people more easily. Ann Cotton talked about why it is so crucial for girls to have access to education, and I learned even more about her drive for girls education in Africa.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 28, 2007

Some of her resolutions were to reconnect with her city council members, get more involved with youth outreach through the arts, and "stop saying 'Africa.' Africa is not a country. It was probably one of the best books I've read and definitely helped me to better understand the issue, and America's policies and history around it.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

And this is one where these guys definitely have a lot of knowledge. And one of the things I like about the feasibility study is that if you’re discussing your project with the right people, it actually warms the donor and the community to your project before the beginning of your solicitation process. Check them out.

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Nonprofits Source

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

But along came the internet and e-commerce, which forced the traditional definition to evolve and include website properties. In other words, when people search for a keyword that is valuable to your brand you want to be the one ranking on the first page to drive more traffic to your site. Use internal links to relevant pages.

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Forum One

JUNE 18, 2009

A quick glance makes it clear that the not-entirely-standard definitions of the diseases listed, and the data collection process implied (often a matter of guesswork and intuition), may introduce some uncertainty into the reliability of the data that results.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 24, 2006

What people see as fearlessness is really persistence. Because I don't see the danger, I don't allow my mind to imagine what might happen to me, which is my definition of fear. She writes about her divorce: "[A]s I like to tell people, 'Failing is not a crime.' Wangari Maathai Unbowed Africa memoir activist

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

In reading through this amazing outpouring of posts, people have been very transparent if they are nominating their own project as well as their criteria and evaluation thought process. His definition: projects that are not well funded. is definitely worth checking out - like this interview with Christina Arnold from Project Hope.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 28, 2005

Tony Blair's talk (on Africa and global warming) had a quote that I think explains why: "it is based on enlightened self-interest". Not willing to take sub-par returns, but definitely thinking about the social side. Like any other conference I attend, the people-meeting part, the schmoozing, is the most important. Schmoozing.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

However, getting good, quality pictures of the day-to-day work on the ground in Africa is a definite challenge. Pratima: The people are nice. Storytelling is one of the most important ways for us to spread awareness about the threat of malaria, and pictures are invaluable when it comes to telling a good story. But it’s true.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 13, 2015

We definitely learned what it means to charity: water, but what does meaningful marketing mean to the entire nonprofit community? It’s meaningful because it’s something the majority of people can relate to and identify with. The friend, the co-worker, the uncle, the teacher – make a list of people who care about your cause.

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

Recently, Freedom Fone was adapted by two farm radio stations through the African Radio Research Initiative , a 42-month project, the aim of which was to assess the effectiveness and impact of farm radio in many parts of Africa. . At Volta Star, a lot of people called, but a smaller percentage called on a regular basis, Sullivan said.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

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. It wasn't bringing people toward us. Why do people who are not chosen end up out in the cold?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 22, 2018

Inspiring people to take online surveys is tough! We are grateful to the 3,573 people who have taken the 2018 Global Trends In Giving Survey thus far. South Africa 3%. The survey is available in five languages – ???????????? Native American 0%. White/Caucasian 83.3%. Top 10 Countries. United States 24.5%. Singapore 14%.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 15, 2008

She went from being somebody's servant to somebody who when she walks down the street of her community, people stop her and shake her hand and thank her for the stories that she is telling, or ask, 'When are you going to interview me? The secondary goal is to provide better free, or fair information to people in these countries.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 28, 2006

The most important way for people to collaborate is face to face, so we have a number of ways that we convene women who are doing this work on various different levels. For example, some of our women in Africa and India are interested in taking the ideas and the best practices that came out of this training into their regions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

comprising the people most likely to give and raise additional money." If you're short on time, read the abtracts and dive deeper into Social Network Sites: Definition, History, and Scholarship. Jonathan Coleman's slide show, You Can't Raise $$$ if People Can't Find You on SEO fundraisers. There are 18 articles.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2016

The book is an expanded version of their seminal article in the Stanford Social Innovation Review from 2007, “Social Entrepreneurship: The Case for Definition.” Rather than just telling people how the world needs to improve, the successful social entrepreneur demonstrates how to do it. And that’s what we did with Bookshare!

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 30, 2009

"The people I see who are successful in bringing their vision to fruition are people who have a clear vision. Once people figure out how they want to make a difference, how do you help them figure out the steps to make it real? People might get stuck in the "how," and the entire plan. Pick a place to start from.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 2, 2007

What we really believe is that there is a kind of new consciousness to consumerism in the United States, and as consumerism is sort of evolving, people are really thinking about how to purchase or consume, but at the same time make a constructive impact on the world and express their social or other kinds of values into the world.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

So people that speak multiple languages or that live in different countries that have different ways of communicating and of seeing the world. And I’ve noticed how different people communicate, how different people interact. So it is grouped in the category of social media because people use it a lot. for a while.

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Candid

AUGUST 3, 2021

In our past annual research, we have tracked eight population categories : 1) children and youth; 2) human rights defenders; 3) Indigenous peoples; 4) LGBTQI; 5) migrants and refugees; 6) people with disabilities; 7) sex workers; and 8) women and girls. Even in the U.S., There are two driving factors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2017

More and more people are adopting social media messaging, including Facebook Messenger , to contact nonprofits with questions, comments, or requests. Momconnect is a bot developed by the Praekelt Maternal Health , an initiative that uses mobile technology to improve the health of pregnant women, newborns and infants in South Africa.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Steven: I definitely will. . So it’s for the people, by the people, is kind of the mantra here. . How do we do it in a way that feels inclusive, that people are heard, and that we can make decisions and not be overwhelmed by the process? Julie: I’m happy to address it. How do we do this well?

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

This time I’ll review some new developments in digital inclusion, smart watches, accessibility technology, apps in Africa, crowdfunding resources, and digital trends to expect in the next five years. This technology will make it easier for blind and sight-impaired people to browse the web. Move over Gates Foundation.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 5, 2013

” While were on the subject of email there are some new services that do automated email sorting and triage to help people cope with email overload. Open Data in Africa. The African Development Bank has developed an Open Data for Africa online platform that is now available across the entire continent. Click "Yes!"

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 4, 2010

billion people are without clean water. More than half of those people are women and girls. What we heard was that our colleagues in Africa really needed support around water. MK: So, we just returned from Ghana in West Africa where we convened the 2010 West African Women and Water Training.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 26, 2009

He is a genius at connecting evaluation to other people's contexts. We tend to think that great social change is the province of heroes – an intimidating view of reality that keeps ordinary people on the couch. This is one to definitely add to the plane reading list and a theme of my talk at Mashable Conference on Friday. .

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 26, 2006

It's an opportunity to connect with interesting people from around the world, all with important perspectives. Zanelle Mbeki (first lady of South Africa), talked about the opportunities in market failure. I just want to share some of the voices I've heard so far this week. These are based on my contemporaneous notes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2014

It includes international trade and development, security, micro-finance, LBGT rights, renewable energy advocacy, water policy, security, human rights for indigenous people, terrorism financing, refugee protection policies and rights, law enforcement, trafficking, peace in conflict areas, and poverty reduction. 2013: A Year in Social Media.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 16, 2007

I guess I got involved in coworking originally because I was working out of cafes and wanted a more collaborative, productive environment to go to and work around other people in. When you find other people that are into the same thing, it's great, because it just helps to reinforce that and gets things moving.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 6, 2010

It's sort of a new form of philanthropy, where average people can be really engaged, make a huge, huge, huge difference, and have a lot of fun at the same time. Our combined donations range anywhere from $21,000-26,000 per month, depending on whether it's July and people are on vacation, or what's going on, and how many chapters meet.

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