Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 3, 2013

Guest Beneblog by Betsy Beaumon, VP and General Manager, Benetech’s Global Literacy Program. That’s why braille is an important focus for us in Benetech’s Global Literacy Program — we know that we must keep braille relevant and make it more available. and critical for the inclusion and empowerment of people in developing countries.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

With this in mind, we recently took measures to evolve our community engagement platform, giving people access to a broad set of tools to help them engage and build purpose beyond their day-to-day roles. We partner with the Global Food Banking Network (GFN). We also work with local food banks across each of our global offices.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Our Time (Facebook) is a nonprofit dedicated to youth empowerment through the voting process. As more tablets and smartphones are making their way into the classroom, it makes sense that there are a number of apps aimed at helping young people with their education and job preparedness. iStudiez Pro. Apps Made by Youth.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

They started WAKE after working together for 15 years designing and leading global programs at the intersection of technology, civil society and women’s empowerment. I coached this participant, with the help of the translator on getting her brand page set up! This helps the interpreters prep. 2) Keep a Slow Pace.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 7, 2022

As we celebrate Women’s History Month, honoring the countless contributions women have made and continue to make in our country and around the world, it’s important to recognize the many organizations whose focus and missions revolve around helping women. Global Fund for Women. Wallace Global Fund. Global Fund For Women.

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Kindful

MARCH 5, 2021

As we celebrate Women’s History Month, honoring the countless contributions women have made and continue to make in our country and around the world, it’s important to recognize the many organizations whose focus and missions revolve around helping women. Global Fund for Women. Wallace Global Fund. Global Fund For Women.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 19, 2011

SAP is helping to make a difference in the nonprofit and library community through their donation program here at TechSoup. Their business intelligence products let organizations create interactive reports and presentations, while their cloud-based tools help enable group decision making. Making Social Investments.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 28, 2006

She is the co-founder and co-director of Women's Global Green Action Network , a nonprofit that cultivates global partnerships of grassroots women environmental leaders by providing access to communication tools, support services and networking capabilities. Below is a transcript of an interview with her from the Big Vision Podcast.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

Empowerment for our participants comes from connecting to an inner wisdom that is often kept hidden from public view, but is a place of extraordinary innate strength and well being. Anyone with a desire to enact change, empower women and girls, and help battle oppression is invited to share their voice and join us.

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Costa Rica Interview Afghanistan Artist 60

Museum 2.0

APRIL 29, 2015

Tourists can’t help us build community in Santa Cruz County if they are only in town for a day. Focusing local helps us define our community by identity. HOW (slides 24-42) There are three “tracks” to our theory of change: individual empowerment, social bonding, and social bridging. Let’s start with empowerment.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 22, 2009

Today is Blog for Choice Day 2009 , an event organized by NARAL Pro-Choice America. This kind of constituent empowerment effort as an organizing strategy is smart. And that I'm able to help them do it! Individual bloggers sign up and commit to devote at least one blog post on January 22 to the topic of choice.

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Non Profit Quarterly

MARCH 2, 2022

Similarly, there has been a global rise of worker-managed platform cooperatives in response to the rise of platform companies. SEIU supported Coworker.org , a digital political advocacy organization that lobbies for policy change and helped create the Workers’ Lab. million on political lobbying, and another $1.8

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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. 10×10 :: @ 10x10Act. amfAR :: @ amfAR.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 29, 2009

"We want to support anyone who is interested in engagement, but we want to help them do it in a way that is healthy for them, creates community, and creates longevity, so that everyone wins, and no one gets burnt out or sick. That is not what service should be about. I knew that the work that I was doing was effective.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 2, 2008

Kavita Ramdas, President and CEO, Global Fund for Women. Kavita Ramdas is the President and CEO of the nonprofit, the Global Fund for Women. I think it's worth it (: Kavita Ramdas: The Global Fund for Women is the largest independent, publicly supported grant-making foundation to advance women's human rights internationally.

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Global Fund Interview United States 44

Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 29, 2006

The slogan is "Green Collar Jobs, not Jails" and what we're trying to promote a big vision which includes being able to employ formerly incarcerated people from the Oakland area, "at risk" -- quote unquote -- people from this area into jobs which don't hurt the environment, that actually help sustain us as a community.

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