Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 18, 2017

In all our research, we found 3 challenges to making sense of the evidence: Capacity Building Divorced from Results. The Forgotten Roots of Capacity Development in the Movement for Ownership and Empowerment. Few were accompanied by a strong statement about commitment to process that prioritizes ownership and empowerment.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

This last November, I had the honor of giving a plenary talk at the Eighth General Assembly of the World Blind Union ( WBU ), in which I addressed these opportunities and the challenges ahead. National organizations of the blind, as well as WBU, need to keep the pressure on publishers to build accessibility into their products.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 1, 2015

Join @TechSoup , @plus_socialgood , the United Nations Foundation , and special guest CSR representatives for an important conversation on the evolving relationship between CSR teams and civil society organizations. Our December #NPTechChat will examine the intersection of technology and CSR programs from multiple angles. plus_socialgood.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

From our meetings with non-profits and national surveys, there is broad variation in how non-profits organizations are faring, but we can generalize them into three buckets. TD Bank has an internal learning hub that aims to help employees learn more about community issues and the non-profits who work on them. We’re here to help!

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 9, 2018

Literacy and access to knowledge underpins just about every social good, from education, to economic development, to health, to women’s empowerment, democracy and respect for human rights. However, as a technology, printed books come with serious challenges for some communities (like blind people) that technology can unlock.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

The targets need to be linked like so: --> Jump to events in North America , or go international with events in. Atrisco, New Mexico: Working Group and Help Desk: Bring Your Projects and Tech Challenges. Mahikeng, South Africa: Rural Tech Empowerment. The link need to be like so: Africa. Asia and Pacific Rim. Europe and UK.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 19, 2009

Erickson founded FORGE (Facilitating Opportunities for Refugee Growth and Empowerment) in 2003 when she was a 20 year-old junior studying public policy at Stanford University. 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 ).

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 12, 2022

The building of coalitions between Ministries of Agriculture, Labour Inspectors with employers’ organizations and workers’ organizations is essential for ongoing dialogue and collaboration in developing national policies. Increasing Financing and International Cooperation. It is a complex and sadly, deeply rooted development challenge.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 8, 2008

As more and more politicians dive into the world of Social Media, the way we communicate and interact with our local and national representatives is changing. With a culture of open source designs, Instructables, wikis, and blogs, we can start an international movement. It's hard or impossible to repair it, or get anyone to repair it.

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Qgiv

JUNE 12, 2023

When done poorly, they can become sources of confusion for both internal and external audiences. This list is ideally sorted into areas and is primarily an Internal list that your audience does not see. This is primarily internal, but it may also appear in your statements. Internal and external. Internal and external.

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

I feel humbled by and grateful to this experience given to me by the ASU Lodestar Center’s American Express Leadership Academy , whose team believed in and selected me; my amazing board of directors, who never hesitate to support my professional development; and the nonprofit leaders in my fellowship, who challenged and inspired me.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

The new e-book Amplify Program Impact: 7 Trailblazer Strategies for Success with Salesforce shares the challenges and solutions facing many organisations looking to deliver best-in-class programs and services and what this means from a technology perspective. Aligning Across Affiliates. Working Smarter Together.

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

I feel humbled by and grateful to this experience given to me by the ASU Lodestar Center’s American Express Leadership Academy , whose team believed in and selected me; my amazing board of directors, who never hesitate to support my professional development; and the nonprofit leaders in my fellowship, who challenged and inspired me.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 18, 2015

Transgender means that a person's internal gender identity does not match the sex assigned to them at birth. population, and transgender people of color have four times the national unemployment rate. More than 40 percent of transgender people have attempted suicide sometime in their lives, nearly nine times the national average.

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Givinga

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

While the three Ps are still critically important, the three Cs are influencing how companies operate internally, interact with external audiences, and differentiate their products and services. That’s good news for workers, but a challenge for businesses. Employees are making their own rules because they have more choice in employers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2011

A crisp brand meaning should be the filter for decision making internally as well as externally, especially regarding the building of community around the organization’s cause, partnerships, communications and revenue generation. In 2010, SAF’s “Drill Down for Safety” project mobilized nearly 800,000 people with national texting drills!

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Marsha Wallace: Dining for Women is an international giving circle, and our mission is to support and empower self-sufficiency for women and girls who live in extreme poverty in developing countries. The essence of Dining for Women is connection, education, and self-empowerment. You've also added a travel program.

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Non Profit Quarterly

MARCH 2, 2022

The organizers at the Drivers Cooperative have been talking with possible international community partners as well. To achieve these goals, the Drivers Cooperative faces substantial challenges. How to raise capital to develop a sophisticated app that is able to compete with Uber? Another Platform Economy Is Possible.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 29, 2009

On March 5, 2009 I interviewed yoga teacher and co-Founder of Off the Mat, Into the World, Seane Corn , for the Big Vision Podcast shortly after she returned from a trip to Cambodia with participants from Off the Mat, Into the World's Seva Challenge. She utilizes her national platform to bring awareness to the HIV/AIDS crisis.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 28, 2007

And, at a time when the international women's movement is facing challenges, it would be great to have a reminder that good news is going on, that good work is being done, that progress is happening. Britt Bravo: In so many of the groups you profiled, the women were using the arts for education, empowerment, or healing.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 2, 2008

I think what makes us unique is that we are really investing in women's leadership and women's creativity in developing local solutions to some of the world's most challenging problems. I think the biggest challenge for us is trying to make hard decisions. It works in over 160 countries around the world.

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