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. One major roadblock is the affordability of braille reading tools.

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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. Tools of Engagement. We partner with the Global Food Banking Network (GFN). The Values That Drive US.

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Tech Soup

MAY 7, 2014

Caravan Studios, a division of TechSoup Global, entered its app SafeNight into the ReImagine: Opportunity Challenge. We submitted, with collaborators Aidmatrix, and made it to the finalist round. And then things really starting happening: Last week, we learned that the Collaborative was selected as one of the winners of the Challenge.

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Forum One

MAY 17, 2010

Speakers included Pradeep Ramamurthy , the National Security Council's Senior Director for Global Engagement and Farouk Shami , a Palestinian-American businessman, who founded a large Houston-based company that produces hair-care and spa products. Tags: Influence Events Collaboration Communication Events Government.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2010

Ed Granger-Happ, Nethope; Claire Bonilla, Disaster Response Microsoft; Daniel Ben-Horin, TechSoup Global, Vida Durant, CARE USA. Microsoft researchers are collaborating with the academic community on environmental problems, such as aggregation and visualization of complex scientific data from many sources.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 6, 2014

Human trafficking survivors are better able to access the kinds of resources necessary to get safe and stable housing, social services, and economic empowerment. The potential to build a tool offers more people a SafeNight, and the chance to learn even more. We’ve talked about SafeNight on TechSoup before.

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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.

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Tech Soup

MAY 26, 2011

be referred to as "the mobile" in this post) is an important ICT tool for. technological tools for what we need increases and the mobile is no. It is an extraordinary example of one of these tools. Frontline SMS’ and Ushahadi’s collaboration is an example of this. The mobile phone (henceforth to.

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NTEN

AUGUST 25, 2009

" Another paper, The Determinants of the Global Digital Divide: A Cross-Country Analysis of Computer and Internet Penetration , concludes that "income is largely responsible for the global technology gap" The Infighting. " Who could argue with that? And who needs libraries when we have Wikipedia and Kindles?

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

We don’t have a common language for collaboration between large software developers selling and donating their platforms to nonprofits. The Nonprofit CDM is a single tool, and more are needed at all levels of nonprofit technology use. The post The Nonprofit Common Data Model as an Equity Tool appeared first on NTEN.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

a collaborative effort, not just a single department or team’s responsibility. Collaborative efforts: Various organizations contributing their own resources, content, and data to create a common service that none of them would have been able to develop on their own is possible through digital platforms. Images of Empowerment.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 2, 2007

Read More » Collaboration for Funders: Understanding the Challenges Joe Anderson in Influence 1 Jul 2010 This is part two of a series on online collaboration for grantmakers. In part one, we looked at determing the value of creating a collaboration community.If

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 8, 2022

We have all the knowledge, tools, and imagination we need to turn things around and protect our life-giving ecosystem. Parley sees the key to these solutions in creativity and collaboration. Collaboration is the way forward. No one wakes up in the morning and decides to destroy the oceans. So how do we connect the dots?

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Similarly, Salesforce Long-Term Case Management can be used by human services organisations to provide high-quality, hands-on services with tools and features that help to streamline processes. The Salesforce platform allows for the flexibility you need with access to data from anywhere and real-time collaboration for staff.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2012

“Anyone who works for the State Department knows that they work for women and for the advancement and empowerment of women,” said Alec Ross , Secretary Clinton’s Special Advisor for Innovation, with pride at the opening of TechCamp Tel Aviv. TechCamp: Empowering women through technology - guest post by Ma’ayan Alexander.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

Virtual Parent/Family Education - Richard Wollenberger This tool will provide video chat help for parents with children aged P-5/6; Trained parent educators will provide research-based support for specific early childhood issues via video chat. Design solutions for collaboration, empowerment, global views, and self awareness.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 28, 2007

She is donating 100 percent of the royalties from the book to the Global Fund for Women. Britt Bravo: In so many of the groups you profiled, the women were using the arts for education, empowerment, or healing. Can you talk a little bit about why they used arts, and why it was an effective tool?

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 29, 2009

During our conversation, Seane talked about what inspired the creation of Off the Mat, Into the World, her trip to Cambodia, the connection between your inner work and your outer work, and the tools Off the Mat, Into the World uses to help people determine how they are being called to be of service. 20,000 is a lot of money to raise.

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