Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2021

The global pandemic has awakened people of all ages to just how fragile and finite life can be. Michael Clinton is the former President and Publishing Director of Hearst Magazines and is currently the special media advisor to the CEO of the Hearst Corporation. This reality likely disproportionately impacted midlife individuals.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2014

Highlights of this Update: Human Rights Global Literacy Benetech Labs and Board of Directors Human Rights In the age of hyper-surveillance, it is clear that at-risk human rights defenders are no longer the only ones who need the know-how to protect sensitive information. Photo credit: Katy Steinmetz, TIME Magazine.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 31, 2012

David Evan Harris - Global Lives David Evan Harris is Founder and Executive Director of the Global Lives Project and Research Director at the Institute for the Future. questions surrounding globalization and social justice. Berkeley, Stanford, United Nations University, New York University, UC.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2012

The 9th Annual Games for Change Festival will be taking place on June 18-20, in New York City. The festival is the leading global event that facilitates the creation and distribution of social impact games that serve as critical tools in humanitarian and educational efforts.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 27, 2009

I've got 2 new posts up on WE Volunteer : HopePhones.org: Donate Your Cell Phone; Help a Medical Clinic September is Hunger Action Month: Getting Involved + Feeding America I've also started writing for a new blog for the Global Center for Cultural Entrepreneurship ( full disclosure: my Dad is the Co-Founder ).

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 21, 2014

Annie Lowrey from the New York Magazine has a more straightforward take in that its success was because "it's personal.social.makes the giver feel great, supports a good cause, and it makes a small, concrete ask. Note: TechSoup Global is donating to the ALA Association as well.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 16, 2012

She writes for Elephant Journal, The Nervous Breakdown, Jack Move Magazine and has been published in a variety of other places both online and in print. She is also a registered yoga teacher and plans to have a finished memoir project by the end of this year.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 20, 2012

David Evan Harris - Global Lives. David Evan Harris is Founder and Executive Director of the Global Lives Project and Research Director at the Institute for the Future.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 3, 2012

You can read her writing in Fundraising Success magazine and her personal blog, Marketing for Nonprofits. Jocelyn is also a recognized blogger and speaker on online marketing and fundraising. Finally, she serves on the board of directors for NTEN (Nonprofit Technology Network).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2007

  Emily and Cooper have launched a new action on a blog called " Cool It Moms."  "  This blog in response to an op-ed that appeared in the New York Times, A Swiftly Melting Planet calling on the mothers to band together on global warming. What color is your blog? 

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Tech Soup

JUNE 22, 2015

Foreign Policy magazine's Predators for Peace Drones is a short history of humanitarian drones. Inhabitat wrote a story on researchers at New York University who created a tiny drone that mimics the movement of a jellyfish as part of a research field called "biomimicry. How Are Drones Being Used for Good?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2009

Today's New York Times article by Stephanie Strom describes some of the most recent online contests, including the Case Foundation ’s Giving Challenge, a contest conducted through Causes. on Facebook, Network for Good, Global Giving and Parade Magazine in 2007.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

Note from Beth: This post was written before the New York Times article describing a misstep with the Pepsi Charity Contest. For context, please see this guest post by Bonin Bough, The Global Director of Social Media for Pepsi, published earlier this month. Here's my analysis. million a month for 12 months to good causes.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

I just had to take that chance." - Jensine Larsen Jensine Larsen is the Founder and CEO of World Pulse , a global media and communication network devoted to bringing women a global voice. Jensine Larsen: World Pulse is a global media enterprise fully devoted to bringing women a global voice.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2006

While the speakers were talking, the avatars in Second Life were carrying on a lively debate in chat about the points raised, suggesting questions to be asked in the room in New York City, and passing along urls/resources related to the discussion at hand. Several avatars were also in "real life" in New York City.

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EveryAction

MARCH 16, 2017

Along with her work as an aquatic biologist, her book, Silent Spring , is largely credited for advancing the global environmental movement worldwide , inspiring the rise of ecofeminism and many feminist scientists. Writer and author of New York Times best seller "Bad Feminist," modern-day feminist icon Roxane Gay is a force of nature.

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 29, 2017

There, you’ll find all of the education we provide in podcasts, classes, webinars, a print magazine, and online articles that are published throughout the week. It’s kind of alarming but they found that trust, when they globally interviews folks, trust in all four institutions were at an all-time low.

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

One of PresenTense's core activities is the Global Summer Institute , held in Jerusalem. PT currently has fellowships in Boston, Cleveland, New York, Philadelphia, Tel Aviv, and Jerusalem -- and will be expanding next year to Europe and other cities in North America. . So how does this "incubator" work? .

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 14, 2007

In 2006, journalist Mariane Pearl traveled the globe for Glamour magazine to profile women who are changing the world. She traveled over 100,000 miles and interviewed 12 women activists who are working on solutions to everything from sex trafficking, to global warming, to AIDS.

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Care2

APRIL 21, 2008

Though the web is useful for connecting people around a single cause on a global scale, this support is often difficult to express offline. They would have to sit there and be shipped to New York late and then return again. This meant making all new ones in a few days and sending them by airplane.

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Care2

APRIL 21, 2008

Though the web is useful for connecting people around a single cause on a global scale, this support is often difficult to express offline. They would have to sit there and be shipped to New York late and then return again. This meant making all new ones in a few days and sending them by airplane.

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 10, 2022

Click here to download this article as it appears in the magazine, with accompanying artwork. Amazon, born in 1995 as an online bookstore, grew by the 2000s to become the largest global e-commerce platform company in existence. 46 And The Drivers Cooperative in New York raised over $1.6 Platform Cooperativism.

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M+R

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

One of the gravest harms of the pandemic has been its impact on the food security of millions of people, in the United States and globally. COVID-19 exacerbated the link between food insecurity & global systemic inequality. 2020 taught us all a lot about our society, politics, and the interconnectedness of the global community.

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