Candid

APRIL 16, 2024

Activities they considered “service” included “working with others to make the community or campus a better place” (81%), “acting to benefit the common good” (80%), “everyday acts of kindness” (76%), “acting to raise awareness about a campus, community, or global problem” (72%), and “working with others to address social inequality” (68%).

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

The growing magnitude and complexity of socioeconomic problems that face societies throughout the world has generated the urgency for cross-sector collaboration to emerge. Examining these cross-sector collaborations reveals advantages for nonprofit leaders seeking greater impact. In Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, James E.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 9, 2023

We all want to know whether our work makes a difference. We offer some practical tips, some examples of funders doing this work, and some resources. All too frequently, the grantmaker alone is determining, leading, and benefiting from MEL processes with no input or collaboration from the people, organizations or community impacted.

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Participatory Evaluation Empowerment Grant 86

Candid

MARCH 26, 2024

In November 2023, we received a grant from the Capital One Foundation to support our housing and financial empowerment programming. That’s why it’s important for nonprofits to work together to create a more equitable future. Without leveraging data about our community’s specific needs, we could not have expanded our impact.

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Resource Data Community Aggregator 59

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 28, 2014

He oversaw the development of numerous products and services that allow us to drive social empowerment through technology across all our programs. He also championed an open source ethos so that our work can be broadly shared (you can view all our open source projects on GitHub ).

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Saleforce Nonprofit

APRIL 22, 2022

We believe, we know, that moving the needle on climate change requires collaboration on all levels. Today, on Earth Day, we want to recognize organizations in our nonprofit community that embody these principles as they work tirelessly year-round to advance their mission and improve the state of our planet. Plant for the Planet.

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Ireland Challenge Empowerment Local 97

Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Inspiration can come from an assortment of places, but to be connected to collaborative opportunities you need to have relationships across different organizations in your community. John Hancock was approached by the mayor of Boston in 2008 with a collaborative opportunity that falls in the latter category.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Bringing skilled volunteers together in person with passionate and integrated local organisations around the world was how V2I worked towards their mission of helping global communities break the cycle of poverty. We began by working on an alignment process called “ V2MOM ”, which stands for: Vision, Values, Methods, Obstacles, and Measures.

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Philanthropy Impact Support Uganda 98

Qgiv

MARCH 1, 2023

They harness the power of collective giving to fund grants for local programs who work to support women like the YWCA, Girl Scouts, and various domestic violence coalitions. Donate to support the Women Business Collaborative here. Donate to the fund here. Donate to support the Women First International Fund and their grantees here.

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Top Nonprofits

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Amanda believes in collaboration, empowerment, trust and wicked-good customer service. Benefactor Group is currently working with arts, culture, and educational institutions; human service organizations; the faith community; and others working to improve the quality of life. She has loved every minute of it.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MARCH 30, 2022

The pandemic initiated a massive worldwide shift in how and where work gets done, and nonprofit organizations were not spared. And working from home resulted in many employees feeling like they live at work. A recent Harvard Business Review article on this topic says that “empowerment, engagement, and planning are critical.

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Survey Trend Change North America 59

NonProfit Hub

MARCH 2, 2021

She has spent almost thirty years working in the nonprofit world helping organizations communicate more effectively internally and externally. Now more than ever, the cross-sector collaboration between nonprofits and corporations will be critical to scaling, innovating, and ensuring sustainable impact for generations to come.

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Causes Consultant Empowerment Storytelling 92

Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 28, 2022

Whether campaigning for the future of our planet, directing documentaries, or creating content that spotlights global issues, social empowerment and environmental education are at the core of Jack’s work. A new Salesforce.org-driven collaboration with Uplink was also announced during the panel. Davos Codes Trail.

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Benefit San Francisco Iran Storytelling 59

NTEN

MARCH 8, 2010

Working with a virtual team. Openness and FOSS (free and open source software) are really perfect fits for nonprofits who share the values of collaboration, community, empowerment, and sharing. That virtual work could save the planet! Speaker: Jenn Sramek, CivicActions. Session: Are you for real?!

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Nimble AMS

MAY 20, 2019

Association professionals go to work every day to make this world a better place, and Salesforce aligns with that mindset. With the good work that associations do for our society, what’s not to love about that? Salesforce offers Chatter functionality, which facilitates collaboration among your staff. A spirit of giving.

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Associations Classes Platform Empowerment 60

Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 23, 2022

Empowerment is the greatest form of impact. For volunteers, it enables skills development, and improves wellbeing by connecting their work with their purpose. By working closely with communities, they can increase the capacity and ability to not just imagine a better world, but build it.

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Companies Volunteer Impact Service 59

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 7, 2012

There are organizations and individuals who work as intermediaries on connecting the dots between data experts and the people, but what about a network? The site contains data visualization tools, thanks to a collaboration with the Institute for Visualization and Perception Research at UMass Lowell. Why this resource?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 3, 2013

As we have explained in other Beneblog and Bookshare blog posts, these are exciting times for everyone who has been working to meet the imperative to provide people with print disabilities equal access to published information. This allows a much broader group of experts to keep working on the problem.

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Classy

APRIL 27, 2021

Fifty-one percent of Americans reported mental health challenges at work since COVID-19 began, and 30% are fearful to report their mental health struggles to their employer. Lisa and Libby have a collective 20 years of experience working with teams and individuals to improve their wellbeing, employee engagement, and workplace culture.

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Culture Nonprofit Attitude Awareness 105

Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 7, 2019

Finally, you'll find a solid list of to-do's for positioning motivated employees to succeed and for enhancing employee enablement as the authors provide expert guidance related to: Performance management Authority and empowerment Resources Training Collaboration Work, structure and process If you are leading an organization where your employees are (..)

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Finally, you'll find a solid list of to-do's for positioning motivated employees to succeed and for enhancing employee enablement as the authors provide expert guidance related to: Performance management Authority and empowerment Resources Training Collaboration Work, structure and process If you are leading an organization where your employees are (..)

Empowerment 41

Empowerment Authoring Roles Job 41

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 17, 2016

The partners we work with--to catalyze projects within and beyond our walls--are just as important as our visitors to fulfilling our mission. Relative to other museums, I think we spend less time producing an "onstage" experience and more time collaborating with community organizations behind the scenes to empower them to produce.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Once they saw how meaningful that work was, they kept coming back. The work then evolves from a company bringing more assets to the table, to your leadership team getting a more meaningful understanding about these issues and how it affects the business and their teams. This is where ESG can go from an acronym to something tangible.

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Interview Build Companies Skills 59

Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 27, 2017

Finally, you'll find a solid list of to-do's for positioning motivated employees to succeed and for enhancing employee enablement as the authors provide expert guidance related to: Performance management Authority and empowerment Resources Training Collaboration Work, structure and process If you are leading an organization where your employees are (..)

Empowerment 40

Empowerment Authoring Roles Job 40

Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Purpose at PIMCO is our refreshed corporate citizenship program that builds on our past community work, while also delivering on our commitment today to strengthen, strategically align and focus our engagement efforts, while leveraging PIMCO’s values and core business to drive meaningful impact. The Values That Drive US.

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Hunger Empowerment Asia Europe 29

Tech Soup

MAY 7, 2014

She's been working in the area of nonprofit technology for more than twenty years. 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. We think so.

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New Jersey Proposal Law Empowerment 44

Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Finally, you'll find a solid list of to-do's for positioning motivated employees to succeed and for enhancing employee enablement as the authors provide expert guidance related to: Performance management Authority and empowerment Resources Training Collaboration Work, structure and process If you are leading an organization where your employees are (..)

Empowerment 40

Empowerment Authoring Roles Job 40

Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 2, 2015

Finally, you'll find a solid list of to-do's for positioning motivated employees to succeed and for enhancing employee enablement as the authors provide expert guidance related to: Performance management Authority and empowerment Resources Training Collaboration Work, structure and process If you are leading an organization where your employees are (..)

Empowerment 40

Empowerment Authoring Roles Job 40

Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 19, 2014

Finally, you''ll find a solid list of to-do''s for positioning motivated employees to succeed and for enhancing employee enablement as the authors provide expert guidance related to: Performance management Authority and empowerment Resources Training Collaboration Work, structure and process If you are leading an organization where your employees are (..)

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Empowerment Authoring Roles Job 55

Tech Soup

JANUARY 6, 2014

She’s been working in the area of nonprofit technology for more than twenty years. Human trafficking survivors are better able to access the kinds of resources necessary to get safe and stable housing, social services, and economic empowerment. We’ve talked about SafeNight on TechSoup before.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 16, 2015

Finally, you'll find a solid list of to-do's for positioning motivated employees to succeed and for enhancing employee enablement as the authors provide expert guidance related to: Performance management Authority and empowerment Resources Training Collaboration Work, structure and process If you are leading an organization where your employees are (..)

Business 40

Business Empowerment Authoring Roles 40

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 6, 2008

Does your work and interests include how information and communication technology (ICTs) can be used to promote social change? Do you use or champion innovative uses of ICTs to work or network more efficiently? Do you work in an organization whose mission includes social or economic development? The Women???s

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Mentoring Nigeria Project Network 50

Forum One

MAY 17, 2010

In response to Cairo, the attendees sought to work together to forge relationships between the United States and Muslims based on respect and partnerships within the private sector and civil society organizations. Online tools can greatly assist with collaboration, cultural education and developing business ideas.

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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. People make technology work. Keep your powder dry. A marathon, not a sprint.

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Social Empowerment Conversation Skills 147

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

We believed that our museum programming would improve if we spent more time as staff members and trustees learning and working with these leaders on their projects throughout the County. Our work would become more relevant, our collaborations more timely, our network more diverse.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 7, 2022

This foundation supports smaller, grassroots organizations in the New York region that work to improve the lives of girls and women. Each year, Mama Cash supports over 100 women’s, girls’, trans and intersex rights groups that are working to change the world. Areas served: US with a focus on the Great Lakes region. The Moriah Fund.

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Empowerment Grant Fund Resource 80

Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

From regular meetings with the companies of Volunteer Canada’s Corporate Community Engagement Council and our work with client companies, we know that for much of March and April, companies were cautious to ask employees to give more of themselves in such trying times. In your opinion, what does the future look like for volunteering?

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