Socialbrite

MARCH 8, 2020

While they all have different hints and tactics for success, there is one thing they all share in common: They’ve incorporated donation software into their arsenal. Here are some of the campaigns run with Donorbox: Some of the kids helped through the Shanti Bhavan Children’s Project. Shanti Bhavan Children’s Project.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 28, 2014

TED gives me the chance to brainstorm with loads of people who gather to discuss ways to change the world through technology and design. Cooking a meal shouldn’t be fatal: clean-burning stoves, as well as clean fuels and energy all help combat this problem. Andrew, however, is also concerned about the 20% of the blind he can’t help.

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AccelEvents

JUNE 28, 2021

At Accelevents, we treat people like people and all people are equal. Humans come in so many different sizes, colors and interests, but at the heart of it all we’re all the same. “Pride is about feeling empowered to be authentically you. That is it.” That’s not the case.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 22, 2010

Among the people I’m privileged to call a colleague here at Benetech is Viji Dilip, the International Program Coordinator for our Bookshare International service. Viji, who is from India, received a BA in accounting from Madras University and moved with her husband to the Bay Area. I said to myself what if?” Viji told the magazine.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2008

He lives in India. So Dr.Mani decided to try and help sponsor the operations. A group of caring, generous, passionate people who wanted to make a difference, reach out with a helping hand, change the world and make it a better place. He treats little children born with congenital heart defects. ABSOLUTELY NOT.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

The sad truth is that millions of people with print disabilities around the world continue to be left behind. In June, with the help of Stevie Wonder , we got a treaty that did just that: the Treaty of Marrakesh. We’re going to demonstrate what this could look like by piloting Bookshare International at scale in India.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 16, 2022

Illuminate India and Clubhouse Guatemala both completely cover the cost of many of the children in their programs with monthly sponsors. These nonprofits have gotten really good at making it easy for people to understand how their donation will make a difference. Not to mention the $240 is predictable income!

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 3, 2008

I received a copy of her reflections and asked if I could share it with more people. Article 19 of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights says that all people deserve "the right to seek, receive and impart information." Today, millions of people are denied this basic human right because they are not literate.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2014

How can our existing successful programs reach ten times more people? How can we use technology in a new way to improve people’s lives that is an order of magnitude better? Can we help stimulate the creation of far more technology-for-good ventures? 10X: ten times the impact. That’s what’s been on my mind lately.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

The core of the design is "popular vote" - the group whose idea gets the most people to vote for them wins. I've just returned from a trip to India where there is a different approach to solving complex social problems using social media and the Internet. How can these goals be balanced? The submission form is simple. (3)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2010

Video Can Help Boost Donations in End-Of-The-Year Fundraising by Michael Hoffman. Adding video to your end-of-year online campaigns can help you achieve, and even exceed, your year-end fundraising goals. We know that video can connect people to the work you do every day in a ways simple text just can’t match.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

The Marrakesh Treaty was signed last year, and now the efforts are ramping up to ratify and implement the Treaty, with the goal of helping overcome the book famine faced by people with print disabilities. At least, both groups would be showing up in Geneva with our different positions clear.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

People pay attention more, they learn something, they retain it better, and there is a better chance of them applying what they learned. Then we had a discussion to pull highlight and discover different practices. I used this exercise right after lunch to avoid the after lunch energy drop and use the time for instruction.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 15, 2010

The phrase "Bottom of the Pyramid" refers to the largest, but poorest segment of the population or the billions people living on less than $2 per day, as first defined in 1998 by Professors C.K. I shared the story of how Pratham Books used Twitter to help get children's books to children in rural India. Tags: india.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Recently, Social Misfits Media’s Community Manager, Angharad Francis, interviewed the brilliant Pushpa Aman Singh, Founder of GuideStar India. In this interview, Pushpa discusses her journey prior to founding GuideStar India, her role in helping NGOs and how WhatsApp is driving strong communication among stakeholders.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2010

Note from Beth: During my trip to India in February, I was introduced to a nonprofit children's book publisher in India, Pratham Books. “It was set up to fill a gap in the market for good quality, reasonably priced children’s books in a variety of Indian languages. India has a reading problem and the problem is two fold.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Below are a number of helpful pointers to include in your donor list health check up. ” – Azim Premji, one of the wealthiest and most generous business leaders in India. Ensuring you’re aware of their present circumstances, and to help in this effort your donor management software is a key component.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

The NASSCOM India Leadership Forum has multiple tracks based on theme. In addition, during a roundtable on social media at the conference, I was fortunate to meet social media experts in India ( @ nirav @ amnigos @ pranavbhasin @ paritoshsharma and @ avinashraghava ) who shared some examples.

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Kindful

AUGUST 9, 2021

Foundations in the United States focus their funding priorities on many different issues. Utilize this helpful document to build a profile for all potential funders with relevant information and contact information. They support strategic partners that focus on helping children succeed via a comprehensive approach to education.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 27, 2008

I've met with Thulsi, the executive director, in Europe at different events, but this was my first time on his (impressive) home turf. Loss of sight can be the greatest tragedy next to death, yet hundreds of thousands of people in the world are suffering from blindness. It seems required when you're trying to help millions of people!

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 14, 2013

"There is one thing all radically successful people have in common: their ferocious drive and hunger for success makes them never give up.". On his list he included such people as Henry Ford, Walt Disney, Oprah Winfrey, and Bill Gates. organization that focused on helping the poor, she was accused of. Do you agree?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 7, 2013

Although it might seem like a complicated document , we’re really excited about it because we think it will greatly improve global access for people with bona fide print disabilities. The goal of the Treaty is to end the book famine for people who are blind, visually impaired or otherwise print disabled. Works Covered.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2016

To mark the date, the One Campaign has shared a research report called “ Poverty is Sexist ,” that documents how extreme poverty hurts girls and women harder and in different ways than it does boys and men, and to demand targeted action to support girls and women. Tech2Empower: Helping Women in Cambodia.

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Forum One

MARCH 18, 2021

Mobile-first can mean different things to different people: for developers, it may mean writing code for smaller viewports first with the goal of creating cleaner code; while for designers, it may mean starting with mobile designs with the goal of prioritizing its user experience. billion people across the globe.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 9, 2013

In this second installment of the three-part blog series (the first one is here ) on Bookshare International, I’m excited to share some of the ways in which our Bookshare library is part of the latest trends in the digital publishing world and is thus going deeper and serving many more people.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 22, 2014

The 2013 Digital Storytelling Challenge received many many entries from 12 different countries. It is a moving one and a half minute video about the struggle of untouchable caste Dalit children in India to grow up and be as successful as more advantaged children. Our story challenges get lots of attention.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

The agenda was packed, with 30 more plenary sessions per day (highlights here ) ranging from 5 minutes solo presentations, 10-20 minute panel discussions, and live interviews via skype. But the speakers were not just technologists, they included global leaders – many who are used to a different format for conferences.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 29, 2010

The WEF is all about having a critical mass of incredible people. That shortchanges Larry’s background: he was the key leader in the campaign to eliminate smallpox in India, cofounded the Seva Foundation and a couple of high tech companies, and was most recently running Google.org. What a great kick-off for a day!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2013

Participants spend time working together to draw their networks — people and organizations who are important to reaching their organization’s outcomes. I also ask them to identify people who are “hubs” – those with lots of connections and those on the “edge” or could be a bridge to new connections.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 12, 2006

I had an introduction to the one of key leaders in India's outsourcing revolution, Mr. F.C. We had a great conversation high above south Mumbai in the Air India building, which overlooks Mumbai's peninsula. The reason I came to Mumbai was to visit Tata Consultancy Services, the giant outsourcing firm.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

Note from Beth: Social networks allow to connect with people from outside of our community and it is easy to have your conversation get lost in translation. How about Facebook friends in India? For example, there are many differences between US and UK English. Here’s some good tips when your network is global. Respond.

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Global Giving

MARCH 7, 2019

dollars and British pounds, and donors in India and East Africa can contribute in their local currencies via our partnerships with ImpactGuru and M-Changa. Our team wanted to know: What other currencies could help us connect more GlobalGivers with more community-led organizations? GlobalGiving accepts donations in U.S. Why It Matters.

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Association TV

JULY 29, 2022

But today, many people think of a great workplace as not even one specific place at all, with many employers opting for a permanent remote work setup after a trial proved prosperous during the pandemic. How do people interact with each other? This will look different at different workplaces and positions in each workplace’s hierarchy.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

It found that if they needed help and couldn’t reach 9-1-1, one in five would try to contact responders through a digital means such as e-mail, websites or social media. Social media, like all technology, is developed by people. Several websites were set up to help family members find out information about each other in the chaos.

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Tech Soup

MAY 23, 2016

With productivity, wealth, and profits at historic highs, digital innovation has created unprecedented bounty for a great number of people. However, not all people have shared equally in this prosperity. However, we cannot ensure that people will enjoy prosperous working lives, if we just stand by and watch these trends unfold.

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Association TV

JULY 29, 2022

Correction error: In the podcast, I suggest the East India Company first moved into their office in Britain in the 19th Century, when it was in fact the 18th Century. How do people interact with each other? This will look different at different workplaces and positions in each workplace’s hierarchy.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 17, 2011

A View of the Cloud from India Most NGOs in India are small and highly dependent on volunteers. Some people say that cloud computing can radically change how organizations work and collaborate. Email in the Cloud: A Google Apps Case Study Learn how a cloud-based solution helped one Canadian nonprofit work more efficiently.

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