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Creating Public Transparency: Bringing GuideStar to Israel

NTEN

In early August, NPTech launched Guidestar Israel. It took almost five years to make GuideStar Israel a reality, and it is an incredible resource for Israeli nonprofit organizations. NPTech (established by JDC-Israel and Yad Hanadiv ) is the operating organization behind GuideStar Israel. What is GuideStar Israel? .

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TechCamp: Empowering Women Through Technology

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The participants, most of them women, are exposed to a variety of tech tools, which are easy to adopt and help in organizing community activities, such as: messaging via cell phones, mapping tools, remote conferencing, arranging meetings for large groups, social networking, and more. More Links: YouTube videos: [link] , [link].

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Nonprofits and the Age of Automation: AI, Machine Learning, Bots Link Roundup

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The report also looks at the challenges for nonprofits, which are common in the nonprofit sector when adopting new technologies. The Two Sides of the AI and Humanity Debate: I’ve been following Shel Israel for over ten years, since he interviewed for a chapter about nonprofits and Twitter in his 2009 book, Twitterville.

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Research Friday: The Functions of Government in Social Entrepreneurship

ASU Lodestar Center

as well as the national governments of much of the developed world, robustly practices variants of high-capacity governmental social innovation today, such as the myriad programs countering the global Great Recession. There is also a distinguished history of social innovation in the U.S.

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Leaders in Nonprofit Technology: Daniel Ben-Horin

Tech Soup

To kick off a series of profiles on leaders in nonprofit technology, we thought we’d start close to home by featuring our TechSoup Global founder, Daniel Ben-Horin. CompuMentor in due course turned into TechSoup when it became a national nonprofit, and TechSoup Global in 2008 after it had become an international organization.

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The Last Blogpotomac: A New Community Rises from the Ashes

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Geoff Livingston invited me to keynote the conference along with Shel Israel , author of Twitterville. The audience consisted mostly of social media early adopters who shared terrific insights that come from having a sense of context. The format was ten minutes of speaking (no Powerpoint allowed!), That's rare in a conference setting.