Charity Related Topics 
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
DECEMBER 1, 2014
This iterative method helps us focus on building products that are responsive to real needs Treat users as customers, not recipients of charity People in challenging situations must invest their time and limited resources to improve their lives. Our role as technologists is to provide the tools that empower them to do so.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
FEBRUARY 22, 2009
So, a high tech company with operations all over the world can engage their employees in each country to get involved with local charities, operate matching gift programs and so on. They also have a charitable gift-card concept for employees or customers (buy $250 of product, get a $10 or $20 gift card for your favorite charity).
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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JULY 14, 2009
Charity, business, and government, all accomplish great things but have their limitations. First, charity. There are so many times when human beings are in need, and they need our charity. But charity misapplied is corrosive — when charity is more about the giver than the recipient. Next, business.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
AUGUST 10, 2015
Well, we’re a nonprofit: organized as a charity. Flexibility: We expect the work to get done, and provide our professional staff a high degree of flexibility on how to get it done. What’s the catch? And while we pay quite well by nonprofit standards, there is no stock plan.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
FEBRUARY 18, 2013
It’s why the great majority of accessibility work is done by volunteers, charities, and with government support. The ability of that Indian blind student shouldn’t depend on whether she can get her university or a local blindness charity to do it for her.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JUNE 25, 2007
One of the things I often talk about in my public speaking is the continuum that goes from pure profit orientation to pure charity. Charity is an important and good thing, but charity can be a powerful negative force when misapplied. Most social entrepreneurs I know operate somewhere in between, and for good reasons.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
FEBRUARY 3, 2016
And thus we have a book famine, where the typical blind person in the world has no accessible books, and depends on the charity of others to read books aloud. The Practical Case Charity provision is done on a shoestring. Charities fret about whether they might get in trouble.
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