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. The following four examples developed by foundations demonstrate the value of a digital strategy in fulfilling a variety of awareness and impact needs.

Platform 56

Platform Foundation Examples Digital 56

Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

Research Triangle Park, North Carolina: Crowdsourcing Change: The Social Web to Nonprofits. Mumbai, India: Storymakers 2017. Mahikeng, South Africa: Rural Tech Empowerment. Kampala, Uganda: Using Social Media Applications for Development. Houston, Texas: NetSquared Houston. Thursday, October 19, 2017. Responsables!

United Kingdom 59

United Kingdom Tanzania Benin San Francisco 59

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

I am very excited about upcoming peer learning projects that I’m working on in 2012, including several for Packard grantees in India, Pakistan, and Africa as well as the e-Mediat project in the Middle East. A few ideas: Assigned seating or “social engineering” Solo reflective activity related to the content.

Experiment 116

Experiment Learning Create Exercise 116

Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 28, 2006

Our essential intention is to cultivate partnerships of grassroots women who are working at the community level on issues of environmental sustainability and social justice, so that they can really find opportunities to collaborate and to exchange best practices, exchange resources, and really build a collective agenda.

Green 40

Green Global Action Network 40

Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 2, 2007

Recently, I got to talk with Priya Haji, the CEO and co-founder of World of Good about their work and her advice for aspiring social entrepreneurs. Holly has now been out meeting with the International Labor Organization and thinking about different ways that you really help create empowerment for women who work in informal markets.

Gift 40

Gift Marketing Create Interview 40

Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

It had hit India. I am very much a social entrepreneur. So, for example, on PulseWire, our global community newswire, every woman can have a voice. If your angle is using this training as an outlet for local empowerment and development, then you very much want to bring in mentorship. I'm like, "Let's just do it!"

Voice 69

Voice Global Saudi Arabia Journal 69

Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Can you give an example of, "This month the charity was this and those circles combined raised x amount?" It's the social component. It's social, and the fact that that's rewarding and fulfilling and empowering for them. The essence of Dining for Women is connection, education, and self-empowerment.

Chapter 57

Chapter Uganda Giving Interview 57

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. The leader, for example, of a religious movement. For example, this idea of using poetry, as the girls are in Zimbabwe, would probably not work in other cultures that don't have that predisposition towards poetry.

Photography 40

Photography Interview Zimbabwe Change 40

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

We travel because we think it’s the most effective way to spread social change. For the more senior social entrepreneurs, we can travel because we have leaders and teams that are usually better than we are at running the organizations we head and/or have founded. We travel because there is no substitute for human interaction.

New York 100

New York Boston Washington Africa 100

Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 2, 2008

She has been the recipient of many awards, including Fast Company's 2007 Social Capitalist Award, and the League of Women Voters' Women Who Could Be President Award. I think my favorite example of that is a women's group from the highlands of Bolivia who wrote to us maybe seven or eight years ago.

Global 44

Global Fund Interview United States 44