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2020 Cause Awareness & Giving Day Calendar for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

20: Global Recycling Day — #GRD2020. 3: World Press Freedom Day — #WorldPressFreedomDay. 9: International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples — #IndigenousDay. 16: Global Cat Day — #GlobalCatDay. 3: International Day of People with Disabilities — #IDPwD20. 4: World Cancer Day — #WorldCancerDay.

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Mobilizing Impact at the 2013 Clinton Global Initiative Annual Meeting

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

That was the theme of the ninth Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) Annual Meeting that President Bill Clinton, Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton and Chelsea Clinton recently convened in New York City last month.

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COVID-19 disrupted HIV, TB, malaria services, threatening progress

Candid

The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted public health systems and health service delivery for HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria in Africa and Asia, threatening to reverse the progress made to date against those diseases, a report from the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria finds.

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My remarks just made at WIPO today

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

with print disabilities, with more than 70,000 copyrighted works in our library, the majority of which have been created under the US copyright exception by volunteers, mainly people with disabilities themselves, helping each other. • We now have global permissions for around 8,000 copyrighted books out of our 70,000. •

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5 Organizations To Support On World Refugee Day

Everyaction

In June of 2018, this mandate feels more pressing than ever, as thousands of families seeking asylum are torn apart and children are held in cages at the U.S. They have since expanded to become a leading advocate for resolution of global refugee crises by world leaders. border, all during the ongoing Syrian refugee crisis.

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Announcing the Third Impact Lab on Climate Justice

Saleforce Nonprofit

Our first Impact Lab cohort designed Service Match , an open-source app designed for case managers who connect people experiencing homelessness to vital human services. The responses were clear: climate change is one of the most pressing issues of our time, and it should be an urgent priority for us all to act.

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[Research] Data on Nonprofit Cloud Computing: Anywhere, Anytime Technology for Social Change

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Note from Beth: Back in 2003 when most people in the nonprofit sector were asking, “What the heck is a blog?,” ” Marnie Webb, Co-CEO of TechSoup Global was not only writing one, but evangelizing to nonprofit techies about social media (called Web 2.0 Cloud Computing Survey Results from TechSoup Global.