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10 Questions …. Kate Behncken, global head, Microsoft Philanthropies

The NonProfit Times

Kate Behncken is corporate vice president, global head of Microsoft Philanthropies, a global, multi-disciplinary team that brings together corporate social responsibility, sales and engineering functions. A good portion of her working life is traveling to see the implementation of Microsoft Philanthropies’ work.

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64 Online Stores That Benefit Nonprofits and the Greater Good

Nonprofit Tech for Good

8) First Book Marketplace :: fbmarketplace.org. Proceeds benefit First Book, a nonprofit that provides new books and educational resources to schools and programs in low-income communities. 11) Global Goods Partners :: globalgoodspartners.org. 11) Global Goods Partners :: globalgoodspartners.org.

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24 Must-Read Fundraising and Social Media Reports for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

2017 Global NGO Online Technology Report :: Download. Published by the Pew Internet & American Life Project. For Nonprofits in the Middle East and Africa: 1. Most of the reports listed are based on U.S. nonprofit research, but Nonprofit Tech for Good would also like to add similar reports from other regions of the world.

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8 Superpowers For Thriving In Constant Change

Eric Jacobsen Blog

“Humans really struggle with change, especially, change we did not choose,” shares April Rinne , author of the new book, FLUX, 8 Superpowers For Thriving In Constant Change. “To Fortunately, her new book shows you how to do exactly that, and how to help others do so too. Run Slower. It enhances your productivity. See What’s invisible.

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How Faith-Based Hope Endeavors Effectively Fights the AIDS Epidemic and Changes Lives in the U.S. and Africa

Tech Soup

Two 14-year-old girls, one in the US and one in Malawi, had their lives changed when they joined forces to fight the AIDs epidemic in Africa. On Darcy McLane’s first service trip to Malawi, she experienced something that would change her life forever: She met Isaac. Doing Global Aids Relief from a Home Office.

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Raise Your Hand for Girls on October 11, 2012

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Globally, 1 in 3 girls around the world is denied an education by the daily realities of poverty, violence and discrimination. She is the second college student we are supporting through the Sharing Foundation’s program. (I’m donating the royalties from my new book, Measuring the Networked Nonprofit , towards her education).

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Twitter’s Claire Williams Shares Why Literacy Is Her Cause

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

As I reflect on what Literacy Day means, I can’t help thinking about the origins of my interest in Room to Read as an organization, and one particularly sticky literacy-for-development related issue that came up during that season of my life. She had a bag for us, a bag which originally had held both running shoes and books.