Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 15, 2010

Rebecca was looking for help with a familiar problem. Her students at Rice University have been busy inventing new tools and equipment for global health. Their students actually go into the field, work with local medical professionals, and learn their real problems, their real pain points. So far, so good.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Our second Impact Lab recently announced the Financial Aid Chatbot to support students as they navigate the FAFSA application. We’re looking for new ways technology can help, and we’re looking to bring together experts who are already leading the path forward. Meet Our Salesforce.org Impact Lab Climate Action Experts.

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Nonprofits Source

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

From locally owned neighborhood shops to the largest corporations, all companies can easily establish corporate giving programs and give back to the causes they care about. Not only does corporate giving allow nonprofits to earn more for their causes, but it also helps them diversify their revenue sources.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 21, 2012

For example, in the villages of rural Africa where Camfed works, local community members play an essential role in helping girls succeed in school. In many communities, Camfed students are supported by Mother Support Groups comprised of women who raise funds to support and empower their villages’ neediest girls.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 9, 2012

Making it through both primary and secondary education is critical to girls being able to help break the cycle of poverty. I raised money through my blog and later on Twitter to help send her to college from 2006-2010 through the Sharing Foundation’s program. …more likely to understand her rights and be a force for change.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 18, 2011

—– Whether it’s political or personal, global or local, funded or a grassroots effort, organizations and communities are campaigning for change in many ways, all of the time. But how does it help you move closer to your goal? The story here is of how 1 child dies of Malaria in Africa every 45 seconds.

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Global Giving

MARCH 7, 2019

dollars and British pounds, and donors in India and East Africa can contribute in their local currencies via our partnerships with ImpactGuru and M-Changa. Our team wanted to know: What other currencies could help us connect more GlobalGivers with more community-led organizations? GlobalGiving accepts donations in U.S.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 29, 2016

Looking for inspiration or hands-on help with your digital storytelling? Kibiribiri, Uganda: Building Capacities of Teachers and Students in Digital Storytelling. TARGET END LINKS. ## Central and South America. ## North America. ## Africa. ## Europe. ## Asia and Pacific Rim. --> North America. Africa + Middle East.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 5, 2011

As a company, they works to have a positive impact on the local communities around the world where it has offices. To help, Symantec has sponsored programs aimed at getting more women into and interested in science, computers, and engineering. Matching Gifts, Dollars for Doers, and Nonprofit Board Service.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 10, 2013

The diverse crowd, made up of students, activists, government employees, and librarians, worked on datasets presented by the U.S. The challenges included connecting African farmers to markets, creating an online networking space for women veterans, mapping Africa’s natural resources, and a few others. Leonard Library.

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NTEN

JULY 28, 2010

Founded by three of the most respected web analytics professionals in the world, Analysis Exchange creates value for nonprofits by connecting them directly with experienced web analysts willing to donate their time to help efforts identify opportunities to increase online donations, engagement, interaction, and list distribution.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

Photo by Life in Africa For this week's BlogHer Holiday Guide post, I needed to come up with a list of nonprofit organizations or causes that BlogHer readers may consider making a donation to as part of their year-end giving. Help Special Needs Children Improve Social Skills. Can I Sit With You? Can I Sit With You? Photo by Dmason.

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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. Atlasien of Upside-Down Adoption said she was going to become involved in a local organization for immigrant rights. It is a continent."

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Forum One

JUNE 18, 2009

Health systems in developing world countries will, understandably enough, do whatever it takes to help donors determine the outcomes of their giving--but often doesn't translate into systematic, consistent data collection that best meets the needs of the entire system. The impact of donor expectations on data collection.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 19, 2009

FORGE serves 60,000 refugees in three different refugee camps in Southern Africa, and is an official operating partner of the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR ). We are focused on preparing individuals to eventually return to their home countries and to help rebuild, and that's human capacity building.

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Everyaction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

State/Local / #MCNAC16 / @SmartNonprofits. State/Local. It’ll open with candid stories about the ups and downs of working in social good and close with an afternoon of action and volunteering with local nonprofits. State/Local / #MadisonNonprofitDay / @nonprofitday. State/Local. State/Local. State/Local.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 29, 2006

Sina helps makes school uniforms that the Foundation provides to over 1,000 street children in Cambodia so they can attend school. s younger sisters are 2 of over 500 students who are learning English in a program in the local village supported and run by TSF. ??? be it Cambodia, Africa or Haiti.??? s garment industry.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 14, 2012

I greatly enjoy talking to students, and I am now in Ottawa, Canada, just having spoken to an incredible group of students, Engineers Without Borders Canada. I'm at the annual Canadian EWB conference (each of the EWB country groups is independent of the other), and there are hundreds and hundreds of students here.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

They moved to a transitional campus, and they began to add students and kind of expand their services to those students. The ones that we see that are struggling, that we’re helping a lot are the ones that, you know, if they don’t have the process, it presents immense amount of risk. And they began to grow.

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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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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 24, 2007

It basically links consumers, you and me, to third-world families, and through more direct trade helps those families get a fair price for their coffee, their tea, their bananas, whatever it is they produce. Helping families keep their kids in school, helping them farm in a sustainable manner. Everyone goes to the store.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2015

And while over a billion are connected, they are also working on getting two thirds of the world that doesn’t have internet access connected through an initiative called Internet.org , which is bringing together technology leaders, nonprofits and local communities. ” In these three ways. And together, we will create a better world.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2014

While the primary goal is for students to learn about strategic use of networks and social media for international organizations, I will also be covering some practical career skills such as effective networking and self-directed professional learning (also called “Social Learning”). Benchmark Studies and Examples.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 12, 2008

Its main purpose is to help people really get engaged on the ground in social change. You hear them speak, or you read their book, or you listen to your podcast, and then you generally write to that person, or you go up to them, rush them at the end of a speech and say, "I'm a student, I want to get involved." His name is Ori Brafman.

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See3

OCTOBER 17, 2009

I’m recovering from a motorcycle accident and unable to attend services at my local synagogue. I am a student at Bowling Green State University and cannot make it home for services, this is a great way for me to participate in a service while at school. Lots of love from South Africa! May G-d give us another year.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 16, 2007

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. You can even be a student, or anybody who frequents cafes, or you can work from home. Not having to rely on transit to get there and back and forth I think helps as well.

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Candid

APRIL 21, 2021

And philanthropic foundations can help fix it. When we began talking with our field offices in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, it became apparent that, as difficult as it was to prosecute police in the U.S., Policing in America is fundamentally flawed. it was next to impossible in many other countries.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 2, 2013

That said, in 2012 I had the opportunity to travel to Africa and Asia and from those travel experiences three themes emerged that inspired the selection of this year’s nonprofits: 1) Women’s and girls empowerment; 2) Conservation of wildlife and wild lands; and 3) Access to medical care. Ewaso Lions :: @ EwasoLions.

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