Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 25, 2014

And gen Y who will come of age in a post-print era will be connecting to causes and giving to nonprofits through technologies that haven’t been invented yet. Generation Z is being born into digital technology and will be highly connected throughout their lifetime. Generation Z (Born 2001–Present, Currently Ages 13 and Younger).

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 4, 2021

We talked extensively about her priorities in her new role, Goodwill’s biggest challenges, closing the opportunity gap, and the importance of technology in solving big problems. We’re in the business of self-empowerment and helping people find that through employment. What role does technology play in your work at Goodwill?

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Givinga

JANUARY 26, 2021

It’s impossible to predict when it will be needed, but when technology and tools are ready to be activated, companies can respond to any disaster type at any time. We helped LIVELY formulate a list of 10 charities that promote social justice through a variety of areas including legal, advocacy and women’s empowerment.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 3, 2013

“As organizations,” Osborne said, “we must liberate spending to focus on the promotion, learning and innovation around braille,” and recognize that we ought to embrace today’s changing economics and technology so that braille can be part of an equation which delivers access to information for all, not just to those who can afford it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 10, 2016

The royalties that I earn from my books have been donated to nonprofits to support women’s and girl’s empowerment work and given this past week, I am all the more convinced of the need to support such programs. I am honored to be an advisor to WAKE, whose mission is to amplify the work of women leading change globally.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 9, 2018

Literacy and access to knowledge underpins just about every social good, from education, to economic development, to health, to women’s empowerment, democracy and respect for human rights. Today, we are poised at a moment in time where we can transcend the limitations of past book technologies and bring the power of books to all humans.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2012

Note From Beth: With the rise of mobile adoption and the primary use to access the Internet and social platforms, it is reaching across consumer segments of all income levels. This exchange is empowering, and technology has made it more accessible.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 26, 2011

I enjoy it because I get double dose: great ideas about the integration of technology with leadership, training, and capacity building AND the content. Mobile Technology and Social Media and Real Time Learning. The lunchtime conversation was with Emmett D. Carson , Ph.D., What is needed to be successful?

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 17, 2012

The app was a finalist in Microsoft's 2011 Imagine Cup, a student technology competition. Our Time (Facebook) is a nonprofit dedicated to youth empowerment through the voting process. While the app is only available for Washington voters, it could potentially be adopted for other states. School and Job Preparedness.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 7, 2009

Over the last few months, I’ve been collaborating with Andy Gibson and David Wilcox , and Clive Holtham and Nigel Courtney from Cass Business School, on a book about using new technologies for social benefit projects. Empowerment is unconditional. People make technology work. Really looking forward to this conversation!

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

I love this stuff because, to me, data done right is empowerment. The field of Business Intelligence (BI) is growing by leaps and bounds as technology tools make getting, combining, and visualizing data easier than ever before. Myth #5: BI is About Technology. I want to eat statistics for dinner. Mashups make me want to sing!

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Cloud 4 Good

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

The company took intentional steps to ensure that our award-winning Salesforce consulting services were provided to the organizations most in need of the technology to help improve the communities they serve. Optimizing + Enhancing New Entry Sustainable Farming Project’s Technology. Cloud for Good was fantastic.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

100% of participants implement a process and write a social media policy that addresses organizational adoption issues. The value of doing an extended peer learning exchange is that participants get the opportunity to put the ideas in practice and apply what they learned. Grantees Implement A Modest and Realistic Action Learning Pilot.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2012

initiative – an effort to galvanize the technology community to assist civil society organizations (CSOs) across the globe by providing capabilities, resources and assistance to harness the latest information and communications technology (ICT) advances to build their digital capacity. Unfortunately, that was not possible.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

organizational change, and technology. 100% of participants implement a process and write a social media policy that addresses organizational adoption issues. Grantees Implement A Modest and Realistic Action Learning Pilot.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 19, 2015

Often, organizations adopt a service model that is strictly needs-based. The most successful programs fostered youth empowerment and community leadership in various content areas: agriculture, technology, healing. We start at the middle of the diagram, defining the community of interest. She surveyed existing local programs.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

The Nonprofit CDM is a single tool, and more are needed at all levels of nonprofit technology use. This is an opportunity to advance equity in nonprofit technology. But it is a starting point and a reinvigoration of attempts we’ve made over the last 30 years of nonprofit technology.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 8, 2022

With Parley AIR, we have a strategy that can be adopted by individuals, businesses, and countries to create a new economy that works in harmony with nature, and ends the human-driven threats to the ecosystems that make Earth habitable. The Defining Decade. Scientists say this is the decade that will shape the next 10,000 years on Earth.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 13, 2009

Technology planning in nonprofits is too often thought about in terms of how many computers we need and the IT staff to maintain them from the basement of the organization. But technology is critical to an organization's success: all staff depend on it to deliver programs, communicate the organization's mission, raise money, etc.

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Qgiv

JUNE 12, 2023

leadership, collaboration, empowerment). If you sense the team is up for it, invite them to the final challenge of distilling their work into an impactful short phrase that the team members adopt with pride. We are rooted in technology, development, and creative services. Compile these into a list, eliminating duplicates.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 12, 2022

This should include improving labour conditions, adopting safe agricultural practices to reduce work-related hazards and exposure to harmful substances as well as transitioning to more sustainable technologies.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 2, 2007

We have seen it in energy, and increasingly now with energy technologies. So with that concept in mind, we developed a technology called the Fair Trade Wage Guide , which helps groups in 178 countries, actually--you can go in real-time on the Internet and say, "OK, this is how long it took me to produce this product.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 29, 2010

He is the founder of MomentFeed , a location-based marketing, strategy, and technology firm. Location technologies are transforming how we experience, navigate, and ultimately better our world. Indeed, the true value hasn’t been the technology itself but how we’ve used it. This guest post was written by Rob Reed.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Consulted with some peer social entrepreneurs about whether we could help them with specific technology for their nonprofits. Met with a major international human rights defender group about our Martus technology and digital security more generally. Met with a big NYC disability services provider about a possible Bookshare partnership.

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