Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 9, 2014

The Forum, which has been bringing philanthropists as well as political and social sector leaders from around the world to Silicon Valley since 2001, hosted the Presidents of two foundations: Robert Gallucci of the MacArthur Foundation and Reeta Roy of The MasterCard Foundation.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

By: Sean Fitzpatrick, Chair, Laureus Sport for Good Foundation and Chair, Laureus World Sports Academy; former Captain of the New Zealand All Blacks. Our vision is to use this power to end violence, discrimination, and disadvantage for young people and children. 257,374 had access to a safe and inclusive space. About the Author.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2022

He started his career at a digital solutions start-up in South Africa, and for the past 4 years, he’s been part of the WFP technology team. Senior Humanitarian Climate Crisis Advisor, Save the Children International. Senior Program Associate, The Rockefeller Foundation. Emma Visman. Eric Munoz. Molly Emmett.

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Candid

MAY 23, 2023

While the research revealed a disappointing reality, it also highlighted opportunities for foundations and HBCUs to work together to make a greater impact. She and my great-grandfather worked as sharecroppers while raising eight children. Panelist Dr. Steven E. The first way I practiced self-care was with my out-of-office message.

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JULY 19, 2023

While there are many types of grants your organization can apply for, there are three main sources of funding for these grants: the government, corporations, and foundations. Foundations Foundations set aside money to support nonprofits in a specific location or specific areas of interest for the foundation.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

It brings together foundations and funds that are primarily dedicated to support or have a significant program to support those organizations. Grant Research Tip: As you search beyond this list for potential funders, many foundations will state that they do not accept unsolicited requests for funding. PADI AWARE Foundation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2008

So many generous people donated, that I had enough to distribute some t-shirts to the kids at Roteang Orphanage, managed by the Sharing Foundation , including a foo-camp t-shirt donated by Tara Hunt for Pharoth. Mothers for Africa is running an underwear donation drive. They will then distribute them throughout Africa.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 20, 2019

Global Goods Partners have partnered with over 60 artisan groups in more than 20 countries throughout Asia, Africa, and the Americas to help bring to market the fair trade, handcrafted products they produce. 12) National Park Foundation Gift Shop :: nationalparks.org/gift-shop. 21) Surfrider Foundation Store :: shop.surfrider.org.

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Candid

DECEMBER 10, 2021

million for clinical effectiveness research (CER) studies aimed at improving care for adults and children across a range of health conditions. A report from the Bipartisan Policy Center and a coalition of nine foundations and public health associations outlines the critical investments needed to modernize the U.S. Grants totaling $23.5

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 17, 2013

A citizen of Paraguay, he is the founder of Fundación Paraguaya , a financially self-sustaining social enterprise that promotes entrepreneurs in Paraguay and Africa through microcredit and entrepreneurship education. and Africa.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 9, 2012

…more likely to be literate, healthy and survive into adulthood, as are her children. I know this first hand because my family and I have been honored to support the college education of two young Cambodia women through the Sharing Foundation ‘s education program. The photo above is Leng Sopharath.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2009

Feeding America Boys and Girls Clubs Smile Train CARE, Mothers Matter World Wildlife Fund, Natural Capital Project Mobile Creches Prajwala HEAL Africa African Institute for Mathematical Sciences The Mango Tree National Center for Missing and Exploited Children Harlem Children's Zone Save the Children, Latin America focus Reporters Without Borders Witness (..)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Note from Beth: As a supporter of the work that the Sharing Foundation does for children in Cambodia, I’ve seen first hand the value of literacy programs in developing countries. Our connection to Kenya remains strong; we are also the guardians for one of the children from that orphanage, @sammyikua , who now studies in Maine.

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Nonprofits Source

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Disney Disney is committed to helping children and families around the world. They mostly support children’s hospitals, arts and STEM education, and environment conservation. Disney’s program represents a range of corporate giving options that work together to support children in need.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2010

An Orphanage Destroyed, Children Still Alive. He's passionate about helping children and obsessed with leveraging the power of "good ideas for good causes.". Justin also passed a long a message from his friend Luke, the founder of the orphanage, Our children have all survived. Crisis Camps.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

In February 19th, Joel Comm has organized an event called " Tweetathon " on Twitter to promote and sell copies of his new book, Twitter Power: How to Dominate Your Market One Tweet at a Time and help a nonprofit that supports children in Africa, China, and India. This foundation helps children at risk around the world.

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JUNE 28, 2021

A group of generous donors did just that for the Testicular Cancer Foundation, matching $125,000. Innovation: Africa has an entire page set up encouraging supporters to create their own fundraisers on their own schedule. Personal Challenge.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 10, 2013

For a very long time faith-based 501(c)(3) charitable organizations have been in a special category and were often barred from foundation grants and corporate donations even though there has never been a strictly legal reason for this. The First Christian Church of Beardstown is a non-sectarian Christian church in rural west-central Illinois.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

Photo by Life in Africa For this week's BlogHer Holiday Guide post, I needed to come up with a list of nonprofit organizations or causes that BlogHer readers may consider making a donation to as part of their year-end giving. I have two favorites: The Sharing Foundation which supports children in Cambodia and Creative Commons.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 14, 2010

Runners-up : Light of Cambodian Children , Open Hand Studios. 1st Place : WildiZe Foundation for its revamped website that effectively (and infectiously!) communicates its mission to promote wildlife conservation and sustainable community development projects in sub-Saharan Africa. Other Media. read more.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2015

For empathy, Parr uses the example of the BatKid story from Make-A-Wish Foundation in San Francisco. If you recall, Make-A-Wish Foundation in San Francisco made a wish come true for Miles Scott, a young boy with Leukemia. The chapter gives examples of recognition, validation, and empathy create an attention trigger.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 2, 2013

Here's peek into what we've been up to: TechSoup Global has two new posts on the Markets for Good blog, an effort by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the William & Flora Hewlett Foundation, and Liquidnet to improve the system for generating, sharing, and acting upon data and information in the social sector.

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OCTOBER 30, 2009

America’s Giving Challenge is an amazing program from The Case Foundation that See3 had the opportunity to support this year. Kellogg Foundation added another $75,000 to the pot to give away. Kellogg Foundation of Battle Creek, Michigan to help mobilize participation in the last week of the Challenge. Kellogg Foundation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 11, 2009

I have used social media to help raise the money for her tuition through the Sharing Foundation in 2007 and 2008. Cambodia brought me my two beautiful children and I felt strongly that we should give back to the country in some way. My motivation was a simple act of reciprocity (not what you might read in some of these comments ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2008

A number of nonprofit organizations are promoting Valentine's Day giving opportunities, here's a few: A Day for Hearts is an opportunity to raise awareness about congenital heart defects, a lethal constellation of birth defects of the heart that affect millions of newborn infants and children worldwide.

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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. Here are 50 from the Skoll World Forum, Oxford 2006 - a photoset on Flickr. and more.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

These best practices serve as a foundation for your online fundraising campaigns, but much of your nonprofit’s success also depends upon the service you choose to process your online donations and the design and frequency of your e-newsletter. Donors want to feel that their contributions are powerful.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 2, 2005

My friend Gabriela Masala sent me some more good giftie ideas: For the children on her list, she bought High in the Clouds a children's book by Sir Paul McCartney, Geoff Dunbar and Phillip Ardagh. She and her husband and their local community also "adopted" a village in Africa of approximately 3,600 people.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 29, 2006

Almost ten years ago, she founded a nonprofit organization, The Sharing Foundation , dedicated to meeting the physical, emotional, educational, and medical needs of orphaned and seriously- disadvantaged children in Cambodia. Take for example, these young girls and women who have been touched by the work of the Sharing Foundation. ???

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Symantec’s grant is applied toward their Global Partnership Businesswomen’s Network in the Middle East and North Africa. Their support will help Room to Read extend its operations into new parts of India and reach over 20,000 children.

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Cloud 4 Good

MAY 23, 2022

Since 1991, the Harold Grinspoon Foundation (HGF) has invested more than $230M into a collection of programs seeking to make Jewish life and Jewish community more connected. To learn more about the Harold Grinspoon Foundation, visit hgf.org. . Written by Blake Becker.

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Cloud 4 Good

MAY 3, 2022

Education For Employment’s (EFE) mission is simple: to create economic opportunities for unemployed youth in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), allowing them to create a brighter future for themselves, their families, and their communities. The implementation began with EFE-US and EFE-Jordan. Written by Blake Becker.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 11, 2006

Komen Breast Cancer Foundation. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation. Subsequent research by the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture revealed some 284,000 children between the ages of 9 and 12 working in hazardous conditions on West African cocoa farms. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation!),

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Connection Cafe

MAY 14, 2010

Seva Foundation Gifts of Service – Putting compassion and caring to work with supporter donations, the Seva Foundation ecommerce items include restoring sight to a blind person , money for projects that alleviate suffering caused by poverty and disease and providing human rights and medical support to women and girls.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 28, 2008

Last year, when I turned 51, I posted a challenge on my blog - could I get 51 people to donate $10 to the Sharing Foundation? But in many places around the world, children can't attend school because there isn't a school building, teachers, or supplies. January: Have a January birthday? And, yes they did ! It's your choice.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 28, 2006

That's an excerpt from a speech given by Muadi Mukenge the Global Fund for Women's Program Officer for Africa, at the Darfur Day of Conscience. The Global Fund for Women is a grantmaking foundation that supports women's human right's organizations all over the world. Hamid" "Woman and Children" from Wafaring Stranger's Flickr Stream.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 20, 2005

Right now he is the Executive Director of the Museum of New Mexico Foundation in Santa Fe. Their site goes live Dec. 1 at www.leadwithexperience.org. Maybe I'll nominate my dad, Tom Aageson. He's 65 and doing, and has done, all kinds of groovy stuff.

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