Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 20, 2005

Civic Ventures , a San Francisco nonprofit group, will award 5 Americans over 60, whose work has fostered significant social innovation, $100,000 to further their work. Each attending cooperative might represent, for example, 600 artists back home in Bangladesh. SFGate had a story yesterday about the Purpose Prize.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2014

The course is about how to leverage networks and social media for learning and impact. They will be doing a variety of work tasks (not just social media and networks). I’ve spent some time taking a look at various reports, studies, and International organizations and the use of networks and social media.

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

Gordon Shockley, who describes the work he and colleague Peter Frank are doing on social innovation. Government has a rich legacy of social entrepreneurship. Consider some examples from American policy history. federal government’s social innovations reached new heights with President Lyndon B.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

I started with an overview of the Networked Nonprofit and shared some thoughts about social cultures and transparency — referencing the models in our book – The Fortress and The Sponge. Free agents are powerful social change players. Mark gave this wonderful example about the five-dollar airplane.

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Global Giving

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

Case in point: Researchers at Stanford have been compiling a “ Master List of Blockchain for Social Good Projects ” that’s already 236 entries long as of this writing! For example, when you put money in a bank account, you’re relying on the bank (a central actor) to keep track of your funds correctly. What is blockchain?

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 8, 2006

And so Anne Cooper and Berkeley is a great example for me of the success story, but it's not just in Berkeley, where people might think, "Oh yeah, of course, Berkeley, you know, of course they're doing that in Berkeley." So that's just one example.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 7, 2013

ND-Burma member groups regularly send observers, at great personal risk, across Burma’s borders with India, Bangladesh, Thailand and China. We have extended Martus capacity building and technical support to ND-Burma since its inception in 2004.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 28, 2007

The leader, for example, of a religious movement. For example, this idea of using poetry, as the girls are in Zimbabwe, would probably not work in other cultures that don't have that predisposition towards poetry. BB: What advice do you have for artists who want to use their art for social change? They are making progress.

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 3, 2022

Myopia undoubtedly affects those at the furthest reaches of other supply chains too – someone stitching garments in Bangladesh for Primark may not know, ultimately, which company their labour serves. For algorithmic sorcery to remain the rarified precinct of data mystics and arbitrageurs, new kinds of economic blindness must be conjured.

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