Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

The nexus for this work is the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), the United Nations agency that deals with such matters. Even though Benetech doesn’t have donor funding for this, our VP of Global Literacy, Betsy Beaumon, and I thought it would be worthwhile to attend this meeting.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

This growth in human rights work, supported by strong donor relationships, makes it possible to carry out a spinoff at a position of great strength! It’s a great resource for organizations that are engaged in spinning off sustainable projects, or that are considering similar strategies.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 16, 2010

The new Miradi 3 release offers a powerful work planning interface that lets users forecast expenses, develop budgets, and export project data to donor reports. Miradi gives conservation planners cutting edge tools to design, manage, monitor and learn from their projects.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 10, 2011

Both organizations work in the Caribbean, where sexual minorities face widespread violence, bigotry and marginalization. The new Martus will harness today’s emerging technologies in order to ensure that human rights organizations, journalists and other social justice actors achieve more with the invaluable stories that they collect.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 13, 2008

As a foundation, we do more than just write a check; through our community, philanthropic and corporate partnerships, we help nonprofit organizations find new revenue sources to become more self-sustaining. We're collaborative, bringing a valuable vantage point that stems from having worked with hundreds of community-based organizations.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

We see tremendous innovations in social enterprise, but these are merely part of larger, global changes in the ways in which society organizes itself to create public goods. Sustainability Plan: Every product needs to sustain itself on revenues after the initial donor investment in building and bringing it to market ends.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2014

We deliver philanthropic donors exciting returns on their investments (i.e., I have disruptive approaches to social innovation in mind, with an increasingly connected society where the cost of prototyping and deploying new products is extremely low, and where innovation is no longer the sole purview of well-funded for-profit corporations.

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Literacy eBook United Kingdom Accessibility 158

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 11, 2006

The social enterprises often pay for the entire cost of operating a certain vocational department (like their beautician classes), but the core costs of running the school has to be raised from donors. I felt very much at home with the dynamism of the organization, and the focused way they go about obtaining results in India.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 16, 2018

Donors and communities are announcing big hairy audacious goals – end modern slavery, get to zero chronic and veteran homelessness, increase job opportunities for certain communities by a factor of two – or ten! A community organizer named Greg Bloom has been working on this for over five years.

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Software Data Change eBook 118

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 2, 2007

In addition to recruiting additional talent to our team in, we're also recruiting advisors and donors from the top echelons of the tech community. If you know some brilliant developers who want to actually get paid to change the world, put them in touch with us. If you know someone like that, send her (or him) my way, too!

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 6, 2009

As a non-profit organization, our work with the TRC and our statistical report was made possible through the support of United States Department of State Bureau for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor (DRL) and several other donors, which are listed in our report. The TRC’s final report has been covered extensively in the press.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 21, 2011

Now, more than twenty years later, what has become known as social entrepreneurship is a hot global movement that is transforming the ways in which we approach the world’s most pressing problems and in which society organizes itself to solve them. Robert went further and personally pitched Benetech to a very wealthy donor.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

I met her last year at KentPresents , a brand-new conference organized by the incredible duo of Ben and Donna Rosen. I am happy to help advocate that donors take a serious look at funding Janet and LIS make this happen. Something tells me that this is definitely fundable.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 12, 2012

Why do your net assets seem to be small for an organization with a budget of over $10 million – is there something we’re not seeing? Informed investors and donors dig deep into the data. In fact, the answers to almost all of questions are found in our financials. Ask questions that arise from digging in!

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 13, 2012

It also helps with recruiting employees, volunteers, and donors! Open Over Proprietary We’re an open source organization. Telling the Benetech story better is crucial to our future: crucial to making the social change at scale that we consider the essence of innovation.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 7, 2013

Martus enables human rights workers to securely document and organize information about violations in a way that protects those who would face violence and repression for telling their stories. They had short-term feedback on the need for Martus to support a new Burmese font: something we worked with our donors (thanks, OTF and OSF!)

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 13, 2011

Our team is helping activists and organizations worldwide ensure that the truth matters. Benetech’s board and I are starting a new campaign to invite visionary donors to get behind the next generation of innovative Benetech social ventures. Literacy, human rights and the environment are critically important to the future of humanity.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Like many other leaders of nonprofit organizations, I travel an unreasonable fraction of the time. We travel because we need to raise money, and we won’t get it unless we get in front of the donors. New York Every year, social entrepreneurs and donors (along with a whole lot of other folks) converge on New York City.

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