Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 3, 2013

At Benetech, we agree that braille is an essential literacy tool and that every child who needs it has the right to be taught braille. One major roadblock is the affordability of braille reading tools. and critical for the inclusion and empowerment of people in developing countries. This is important here in the U.S.,

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Nimble AMS

MAY 20, 2019

The Salesforce platform allows you to see the future more clearly, with easy-to-build detailed reports and personalized dashboards that help you visualize key business metrics and spot trends to identify opportunities and solve issues before they surface. The power of AI at your fingertips. A spirit of giving. Fun and easy product training.

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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. Purpose at PIMCO operates through three distinct pillars: PIMCO Gives, PIMCO Acts and PIMCO Advocates.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 19, 2008

From their website: Some of the features that distinguish Hampshire from more traditional liberal arts colleges include student-designed academic concentrations; an active, collaborative, inquiry-based pedagogy; an interdisciplinary curriculum; and a narrative evaluation system. Sounds a lot like Edupunk, doesn’t it? I learned a lot.

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Tech Soup

MAY 7, 2014

There, she builds technology that connects local communities to resources that help them solve problems and impact issues. We submitted, with collaborators Aidmatrix, and made it to the finalist round. But even more important, it is enough for us learn, to collaborate, and to make change. The Importance of Collaboration.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 7, 2009

Over the last few months, I’ve been collaborating with Andy Gibson and David Wilcox , and Clive Holtham and Nigel Courtney from Cass Business School, on a book about using new technologies for social benefit projects. Empowerment is unconditional. Don’t jump for the tool. People want control. People make technology work.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 6, 2014

There, she builds technology that connects local communities to resources that help them solve problems and impact issues. 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 best part of what’s coming next for us?

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 29, 2018

A tool that can help you evaluate the effectiveness of your program, it forces you to identify your desired outcomes. Takeaway #4: Collaboration is necessary to solve the big issues today. . If you’re just starting this process, consider the creation of a logic model. That means funds, manpower, data collection, and more. .

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 20, 2015

TechSoup is participating by amplifying what other agencies, collaborators, and libraries in our network are doing to raise awareness on this important issue. Even if your organization isn't involved in this issue, these organizations' work offer great examples of how a theme month or day can bring attention to your mission.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 15, 2010

engagejoe : Hmm…What about ‘using webby tools 2 organize ppl for impact on an array of issues, w/the goal of creating real world change?’ Produce great tools for effective UK campaigns. realize_ink : Q3: empowerment & ownership. challenge 2 coordinate w/other movement builders working on same issue.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2010

Microsoft researchers are collaborating with the academic community on environmental problems, such as aggregation and visualization of complex scientific data from many sources. Chatting with David Connor , we both had the same reaction – who knew? The Accelerator Summit included interactive sessions show casing [.].

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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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Museum 2.0

MARCH 4, 2015

Our museum is highly participatory: plenty of opportunities for visitors to contribute, for artists to collaborate, for community members to co-create. PARTICIPATION IS POLITICAL When I wrote The Participatory Museum , I wrote about participation as a design tool--a wrench that could be turned to reach certain goals in a cultural setting.

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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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NTEN

AUGUST 25, 2009

It's the definite article that causes problems, implying there's an easy way to think about the issues surrounding the inequitable access to technology -- and perhaps an easy solution. Mohammed Diop, of Mali , presumably one of the very people OLPC wants to convince: "It is a very clever marketing tool. Brett Meyer, NTEN.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Foundations can make greater progress on addressing critical social issues by using digital platforms to elevate the work and success of the many players in their sector. a collaborative effort, not just a single department or team’s responsibility. Images of Empowerment. Think of a digital platform as: .

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

I feel the learning is richer and more sticky. Peer exchanges help participants not only form good habits, but they also naturally start to collaborate and work in a networked way. 100% of participants implement a process and write a social media policy that addresses organizational adoption issues.

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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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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

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. It really didn't matter to us.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 28, 2007

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? BB: Why do you think the arts is such a powerful tool? I would never ask that question.

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