Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

Our social enterprise partners not only deliver a high quality product or service at a fair price, they also are using the revenues to train disadvantaged people who otherwise wouldn't have these opportunities. The DDD student staff people work half days at DDD, proofing textbooks to make them accessible to students with print disabilities.

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Candid

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Helmsley Charitable Trust , the first in a series of three Poverty Tracker reports, Health and Health Care in New York City (36 pages, PDF), found that more than two million New Yorkers have high healthcare needs and are more likely to live in poverty. and Harry B.

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DipJar

MARCH 17, 2022

Patrick’s Cathedral in New York City. It is a great example of a storied institution finding new ways to support the community it serves and provide new ways – including DipJar – for the community to support its good work. It is used by people in many different ways. And that’s because St.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 19, 2022

The AARP® Purpose Prize award is a national award in the United States that celebrates people 50 and older who are using their life experience to make a difference. The program awards $100,000 each to five people in “encore careers” who are creating new ways to solve tough social problems. Areas served: Vermont, US.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 7, 2021

After a year of pandemic-fueled isolation — undoubtedly a primary factor in 42% of adults experiencing anxiety and depression, up 11% from previous years — educational institutions and businesses are making the mental wellbeing of their students and employees a priority. Charlamagne Tha God’s Life’s Work is Helping Black People Heal.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2015

The mission of the Lavelle Fund is to support programs that help people with visual impairments, including blindness, lead independent, productive lives. It funds primarily organizations that serve the New York City metropolitan area or New York State.

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Bloomerang

MAY 6, 2022

These are given on a no-strings-attached basis to people and groups working on “awesome projects.” . New Earth Foundation. New Earth Foundation “seeks to fund innovative projects that enhance life on our planet and brighten the future, furthering peace.” . Areas served: Worldwide. Areas served: Worldwide. Areas served: US.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 21, 2020

With whatever power you have, do something that makes other people stop and say, “Wait, we can do that?” Don’t just drink your coffee quietly while the room burns down, because you are also flammable. What small thing can you normalize? What big thing can you break and rebuild? It’s no small feat. I’m asking you to stay.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2014

Several nonprofits have successfully interacted with, and more importantly, seen impact from, these engaged new audiences. GlassLab ( [link] ) explores the potential for existing, commercially successful digital games to serve both as potent learning environments and real-time assessments of student learning.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 13, 2011

In conjunction with Aulas en Paz (Peaceable Classrooms), a multi-component pedagogical project designed to promote social and civic competencies and conflict resolution among primary-school students, Dance 4 Peace was designed, implemented, and evaluted in public schools in the outskirts of Bogotá. Today, the program works in Washington, D.C.,

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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? At Benetech, we are harnessing these new rules of innovation. 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

JULY 10, 2010

One of the most gratifying things about the publication of the book, The Networked Nonprofit , is that it has re-connected me to colleagues and past clients as well as making connections to new people. We understand that The Intern might be a high school student, an MBA, a retiree, or anyone in between.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

The Brookfield Zoo hosts this event annually, and it’s a great way to get people through the doors at a different time of day. Engage New Audiences with Tailored Special Events. Thinkery, a children’s museum in Austin, has regular adults-only nights , and they’re a great way to engage people who might not normally attend. (I

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Because of the nature of my work, I’m lucky to be surrounded by many purpose-driven organizations making a difference for people, animals and the environment. My colleagues and I spent an afternoon of job shadowing at our office with ten students from the high school. The students were quite interested in this.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

It was a broad gathering including everyone from consultants to students to startups – and nonprofits ranging from the San Francisco Bay Area focused Stride Center to the global fundraising platform Kiva.org. Happy People Give More and Giving People Are Happier. every year. Which tools are you using and why?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 4, 2007

Here's the letter from the editor of Matilda Ziegler Magazine, which explains why Carrie was deserving of this award: A Letter from the Editor New York City Dec. This award, in the form of a plaque, recognizes a sighted person who has contributed to the well-being of blind people. Veale Humanitarian Award.

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Tech Soup

MAY 23, 2014

The court has decided that people can request the removal of data related to them that seem to be "inadequate, irrelevant or no longer relevant, or excessive in relation to the purposes for which they were processed. Find out more on this new service here. Very sophisticated for a student team. An App To End World Hunger?

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 25, 2022

At in-person sessions in New York City and San Francisco, and virtually on Youtube Live , Demo Day brought together nine social entrepreneurs to explore solutions for problems they’ve experienced. Unlocked Labs is one of a number of nonprofits using tech to create opportunities for people from marginalized communities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2009

The conference, according to Jason Schultz , Co-Director of the Samuelson Clinic for Law , Technology and Public Policy, was designed as “a chance to address the ramifications of what happens when people write permanently to a giant network.” You could easily refuse a telephone in 1949 and not be too crazy, but this is not true by 2009.

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Care2

JANUARY 29, 2015

Humans of New York (HONY) is an amazing example of how building an engaged community inspires people to rally together and raise money for an issue they are moved by. The student gushed to Stanton about his principal: When we get in trouble, she doesn''t suspend us. On Facebook alone, HONY has close to 12M Likes.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 9, 2007

We are both from New York, but felt that California was the right place to be. I mean, San Francisco is now a green city, and that's right from the heart of Mayor Newsom. And so we're going to have people like Rachel Naomi Remen speak. So we'll have a big mix of people talking about media. It's been very fast.

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Care2

JULY 11, 2007

Fine is a senior fellow at Demos , a network of action and ideas based in New York City. The true power of the Connected Age is the ability of many people to participate in conversations. For instance, are they having a two-way conversation with people outside of the organization, or are they just broadcasting messages.

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M+R

APRIL 6, 2021

Then, through pre-market testing and data modelling, we gathered quantitative and qualitative data on which creatives best motivate people similar to the organization clusters to give. Finally, using the findings from pre-market testing, we revised the winning creative and developed new, unique creative for each cluster. Related Links.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

According to MarketWatch , the grassroots web-based global movement past $1 billion in total online donations since it was launched seven years ago by the 92nd Street Y in New York City. . People contributed more than $125 million on Facebook , up from $45 million in 2017, using the network’s new fundraising tools. .

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Everyaction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

TechNow is the longest-running nonprofit technology conference in the Pittsburgh region – a whole day devoted to new, important technology trends and resources for nonprofits. TechNow connects you with the resources, information and people your nonprofit needs to succeed! Fast Company / New York, NY / $1,999. Technology.

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NTEN

MARCH 16, 2011

By Jeff Ramos, Community and Content Manager, Games for Change When most people outside gaming think of video games, they typically fall into three buckets: "old school" games like Super Mario and Tetris, social and mobile games like Farmville and Angry Birds, or hyper-violent console games like Grand Theft Auto.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2008

After he started talking about it, he got people who wanted to help. We're going to have our event in New York City. I want to say that the easiest way to inspire young people is to show how it directly effects that person. That's when I got involved. Ultimately, it got bigger than a one-time event.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 13, 2009

Because it was my first time meeting the students, part of the half hour was spent getting to know each other. I highly recommend volunteering with young people, whether they are as little as a kindergartner, or as old as a college student. I had a blast, and hopefully it was a fun learning experience for him too.

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Whole Whale

DECEMBER 9, 2023

And as New York City Ballet co-founder George Balanchine once said, “ My muse must come to me on union time.” But seriously – does owning a pet help people recover from a certain illness? Was there a recent news story related to dogs in your field? LOL CATS When in doubt, integrate cat videos.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 24, 2012

It was very inspiring here from Giselle Bhati who will graduate this year and work for the Marriott Hotels. Part of Akilah’s program is that students start social businesses to give back to their communities. Her vision to create an opportunity for these young people share their authentic voice about their work.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 23, 2006

This week's Solutionary Woman is 24-year-old Heddy Nam, the Associate to the Chief Operating Officer of Amnesty International USA and co-founder of Never Again , an international network of young people working for peace. The outcome will hopefully improve Amnesty’s effectiveness, helping more people in the long run.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

New York Every year, social entrepreneurs and donors (along with a whole lot of other folks) converge on New York City. I started doing this back in 2007 , when we won our first big federal contract for Bookshare, to take it from 3,000 students back then to more than 350,000 students now.

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