Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 17, 2013

A citizen of Paraguay, he is the founder of Fundación Paraguaya , a financially self-sustaining social enterprise that promotes entrepreneurs in Paraguay and Africa through microcredit and entrepreneurship education. and Africa. So I asked for a leave of absence from Fundación Paraguaya and dove in. Congratulations, Martín!

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Qgiv

AUGUST 10, 2022

Matt Hugg, President and Founder, Nonprofit.Courses – He’s the author of the Guide to Nonprofit Consulting, and teaches nonprofit management at several universities, via the web, and in-person in the United States, Africa, Asia and Europe. In short, the board’s duty is to deal with the policies and the “big issues.”

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 10, 2022

For example, in the Eastern Cape of South Africa, the landscape resembles what many people consider a typical African savanna, with a few trees every hundred meters or so and brown grasslands in between. Often, we don’t invest in nature restoration or conservation because we don’t know what large-scale restoration would look like.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 14, 2012

In the LinkedIn discussion, Suzanne McDonald gives the example of Coca Cola, which is funding AIDS prevention in Africa but being sued in India for contaminating groundwater. Is the work in Africa worth the lives of those in India? You get a variety of opinions, options to weigh, and ways to proceed (policy about funders anyone?)

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Tech Soup

JULY 8, 2011

Guardian’s ACTIVATE is an annual conference that aims to bring together leaders in media, government and technology to a ctivatedly. multilaterals, and high-impact entrepreneurs in the social media space, mostly from the western world and Africa, besides others. development in Africa. development in Africa.

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Tech Soup

JULY 1, 2016

The link need to be like so: Africa. Africa + Middle East. TARGET END LINKS. ## Central and South America. ## North America. ## Africa. ## Europe. ## Asia and Pacific Rim. --> North America. Governance Matters: Create a More Powerful Board Through Policy Governance. Africa + Middle East.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

The link need to be like so: Africa. TARGET END LINKS. ## Central and South America. ## North America. ## Africa. ## Europe. ## Asia and Pacific Rim. --> North America. Seattle, Washington: Governance Responsibilities for Nonprofit Boards. Governance Matters: Create a More Powerful Board Through Policy Governance.

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Tech Soup

JULY 6, 2015

The link need to be like so: Africa. TARGET END LINKS ## Central and South America. ## North America. ## Africa. ## Europe. ## Asia and Pacific Rim. --> North America. Seattle, Washington: Governance Matters: Is Policy Governance for Your Organization? Mozilla Festival East Africa (MEA15). Mukono, Uganda.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

The link need to be like so: Africa. Africa and the Middle East. TARGET END LINKS. ## Central and South America. ## North America. ## Africa. ## Europe. ## Asia and Pacific Rim. --> North America. Governance Matters: Create a More Powerful Board Through Policy Governance. Africa and the Middle East.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 10, 2013

The weekend event was organized by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy , Code for America , Random Hacks of Kindness , and many other organizations and companies. The diverse crowd, made up of students, activists, government employees, and librarians, worked on datasets presented by the U.S. Leonard Library.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 2, 2013

The session, "Turning E-Waste into Green," focused on how policy decisions handling e-waste can improve the economy. We have partners in Asia, Africa, and all over Europe. Read about how activists and techies united under the common goal of government transparency and useful technology. Technology for Good Goes Global.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 26, 2014

Congress multiple times regarding e-waste policy. The events draw nonprofit and commercial refurbishers, environmentalists, policy makers, and green technology innovators, as well as international refurbishers who offer a global view of electronics refurbishing and recycling. He has testified before the U.S.

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NTEN

MAY 12, 2011

And chances are your nonprofit, government agency, foundation, or research institution has gobs of it just sitting around. It's locked in white papers, policy briefs, and fact sheets. Charity Water , an organization that raises money to build wells in Africa has learned the lesson.

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See3

DECEMBER 11, 2007

.&# The video below is called “The Problem with Subsidies&# and it is a look at how US farm subsidies impact farmers in Africa. What I am struck by in this video is how, with world markets, you have a woman picking cotton by hand in Africa competing with a Texas cotton farmer with giant fields and giant equipment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

government and encouraging participatory democracy. They work together in varied group sizes to consider historic issues, significant moments in the Senate’s history and current policies affecting the country. ” Senate Immersion Module. Kennedy (EMK) Institute to support it in educating the public about U.S.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

And chances are your nonprofit, government agency, foundation, or research institution has gobs of it just sitting around. It's locked in white papers, policy briefs, and fact sheets. Charity Water , an organization that raises money to build wells in Africa has learned the lesson. Reveal Change.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

And chances are your nonprofit, government agency, foundation, or research institution has gobs of it just sitting around. It's locked in white papers, policy briefs, and fact sheets. Charity Water , an organization that raises money to build wells in Africa has learned the lesson. Reveal Change.

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Forum One

AUGUST 29, 2008

Part two talks about understanding the challenges.Foundations take on the biggest and gnarliest social problems (if the problems could be easily solved, the private sector or governments would have already figured them out. With economic recovery inching along, all levels of government are feeling the pinch brought on by reduced tax revenue.

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Forum One

AUGUST 4, 2008

Part two talks about understanding the challenges.Foundations take on the biggest and gnarliest social problems (if the problems could be easily solved, the private sector or governments would have already figured them out. With economic recovery inching along, all levels of government are feeling the pinch brought on by reduced tax revenue.

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Influence Social Media Internet Web 52

Forum One

JUNE 16, 2008

Part two talks about understanding the challenges.Foundations take on the biggest and gnarliest social problems (if the problems could be easily solved, the private sector or governments would have already figured them out. With economic recovery inching along, all levels of government are feeling the pinch brought on by reduced tax revenue.

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Influence Social Media Internet Web 52

Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 9, 2007

What surprised me the most (you all probably already knew this), is that the Sudanese government officials who were close to Osama bin Laden (who lived there from 1991-1996) are cooperating with the American counterterrorism authorities, so the United States doesn't want to rock the counterterrorism information boat by upsetting them about Darfur.

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Forum One

JUNE 14, 2007

Part two talks about understanding the challenges.Foundations take on the biggest and gnarliest social problems (if the problems could be easily solved, the private sector or governments would have already figured them out. With economic recovery inching along, all levels of government are feeling the pinch brought on by reduced tax revenue.

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Influence Social Media Internet Web 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2014

Not every student in my class is focused on the same policy issue. They will be placed with organizations working on policies in these areas, many part of large international networks, nonprofits, and government. The Croatian government (@VladaRH) unilaterally follows 195 other world leaders’ accounts.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 1, 2006

Part two talks about understanding the challenges.Foundations take on the biggest and gnarliest social problems (if the problems could be easily solved, the private sector or governments would have already figured them out. With economic recovery inching along, all levels of government are feeling the pinch brought on by reduced tax revenue.

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Influence Social Media Internet Web 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

The Foundation’s Organizational Effectiveness program has long supported projects to help Foundation grantees improve management, governance, and leadership. On Eugene's site, you can see a much better video of the exercise with participants in Africa. We had some rich learnings in the reflection of what happened in the group.

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Everyaction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

The Digital Media and Learning Conference is meant to be an inclusive, international and annual gathering of scholars and practitioners in the field, focused on fostering interdisciplinary and participatory dialogue and linking theory, empirical study, policy, and practice. South Africa / $250. South Africa. 11/28/2016.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 20, 2008

I heard from CEOs whose center is the only one in their entire country (Chile), educators who work with students who have never encountered a computer before entering the science center (South Africa), and web managers whose sites are locked behind federal government firewalls and draconian restrictions (Australia).

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See3

MARCH 12, 2008

We all have different strategies and takes on how to reach out to potential donors,” said Nicole Eley of Africare, which sends development and relief aid to Africa. Hollywood celebrities have become central players on deeply political issues like development aid, refugees and government-sponsored violence in Darfur.

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sgEngage

MAY 6, 2021

While not a new concept or strategy, environmental, social and governance (ESG) programs are on the rise. 1980s – The concept of ESG continues to accelerate, especially around actions taken by the United States Government in the “Comprehensive Anti-Apartheid Act”, which outlawed any additional investment in South Africa. .

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

Your way may be starting an organic catering company, or painting about issues that are important to you, or getting out on the streets and protesting, or maybe working with policy; there are all kinds of different work. In terms of my own life, as I write in Loyal to the Sky , I grew up in apartheid South Africa.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

For a lot of reasons, UNGA is especially important this year: It’s the first in-person assembly since the outbreak of COVID-19 , which makes it the first true in-person gathering from a multi sector perspective, with heads of government, heads of business and heads of civil society.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2016

This is not to say that social entrepreneurs don’t work in the policy and advocacy space. But, to make that happen, we need to recreate the favorable copyright policy environment we enjoy in the United States. everybody in the field of social justice understands that governments are probably spying on them.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 5, 2013

The WEEE Directive is the set of laws that governs the proper collection and disposal of Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) in the 27 countries of the European Union. The e-Waste Association of South Africa ( eWASA ) is building a network of e-waste recyclers and refurbishers in the country. or Latin America.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 25, 2011

First, it is very easy for governments to block access and it can happen without warning. There are two particularly useful guides (both available in other languages including Arabic). However, they should not rely on a social platform as the single host for their information.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

So, for example, when we were working on a community policing project, I used to work in Minnesota, and about 15 years ago, we had another wave of immigrants, refugees that came from Southeast Asia and different countries from Africa. Or maybe you’re really looking for larger scale, a change, right, systems-level policy advocacy change.

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Community Video Slides Survey 78

Care2

APRIL 16, 2008

For example, in France, the government plays a much bigger role in education and healthcare. For example, the UK does not allow tax deductions for nonprofit giving but does have a government credit system called GiftAid. All Care2 terms of service and privacy policies apply. Really amazing. keep working! All rights reserved.

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Social Media Advocacy Interview Online 28

Care2

MARCH 4, 2008

For example, in France, the government plays a much bigger role in education and healthcare. For example, the UK does not allow tax deductions for nonprofit giving but does have a government credit system called GiftAid. All Care2 terms of service and privacy policies apply. Really amazing. keep working! All rights reserved.

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Social Media Advocacy Interview Online 28