Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
DECEMBER 16, 2014
From people in Latin America who face severe water scarcity to at-risk human rights defenders and students with disabilities, our users and their families are the ones who best convey the impact of our work. We want students like Brennan—and disadvantaged people everywhere—to have equal opportunities to make their lives better.
Candid
MAY 23, 2023
Hairston, vice president of institutional advancement and development at Miles College, said, “[This report] will be one of those seminal documents that will allow us to get in rooms we might have been excluded from.” At both Howard and Harambee, I felt empowered, like I can push through, like I have people that have my back.
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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
NOVEMBER 25, 2013
Earlier this month, on November 6th, jointly with Human Rights Watch and WITNESS , we celebrated Martus’ 10th Anniversary —ten years of secure human rights documentation by the Martus user community. Beyond those top organizations, almost no groups had good technology designed for human rights documentation.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
MAY 15, 2012
For the past ten days, I’ve been in Rwanda, Africa. This was a incredible opportunity to focus on the documentation side – without feeling rushed to get everything online. Here’s a few facilitation techniques that I learned from documenting the session. Documentation of the Visioning Process.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JANUARY 13, 2012
In 2008, she asked for advice about raising money to go to Africa to help support the first community access television station opening in Ghana. At that time she made and raised $2,000 using Chipin, using the case study I had documented where I raised money to send a young Cambodian women to college.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
MARCH 1, 2016
It may be documentation of atrocities they plan to use in later advocacy, or simply items like current membership lists. When we called an LGBT organization in Africa last year for a regular check-in, we found that they took the call from the back yard of their offices.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
MARCH 14, 2012
This global Martus meeting brought together individuals who use Martus to address different human rights documentation and security needs in widely varied projects, to share their successes and challenges with the software. What if you could quickly and easily import data from other formats, like a Word document, PDF file or photograph?
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