Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 31, 2006

One of the major themes of working with the Skoll Foundation is the focus on stories. That's what Jeff does with Participant Productions, and a big piece of the Foundation's efforts are around helping us tell stories. At last night's awards ceremonies, the highlight was seeing four short films on four of the Skoll Social entrepreneurs.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2008

She was also awarded their annual Ida B. So often, government control, or just lack of access to information and media, prevents people from really being able to be educated and informed about serious issues that are going on around them. There is also a really practical level of source access. We are pushing an envelope there.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

Loyal to the Sky received a Nautilus Book Award for world changing books. It's been a foundation to begin with, and to return to. As I wrote in Loyal to the Sky , I spent about five months in India and Nepal right after 9/11. MH: It's been really crucial for me.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2008

Do you have a foundation background? Before GlobalGiving I spent a few years helping to build the Washington Area Women's Foundation - and that's when I started becoming a "student' of philanthropy. Tell me about you - how did you end up working in global philanthropy? I am a corporate refugee.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2010

Any woman who is just coming on from Kashmir has access to some kind of connectivity to either an Internet cafe, or a cell phone, or a computer at her work. It's just accessible. I love that it's accessible to anyone. We are doing a media and speaking tour (November, 8-20) of three of our award winning women citizen journalists.

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