Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 30, 2012

CASE is a research and education center that promotes the entrepreneurial pursuit of social impact through the adaptation of business expertise. CASE offers a tremendous program for MBA students and alumni interested in applying their business skills for social purposes.

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Nonprofits Source

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Not only does corporate giving allow nonprofits to earn more for their causes, but it also helps them diversify their revenue sources. Plus, 71% of employees say it’s important to them to work at a company that contributes to nonprofits, demonstrating that corporate giving programs can help businesses retain their employees.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 9, 2012

Not only is this unjust, it’s also a huge waste of potential with serious global consequences. Millions of girls are being denied an education right at a time when it has the power to transform their lives and the world around them. Every day, girls are taken out of school, married far too young, and subjected to violence in school.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 12, 2013

continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit scholar, student, or professional to. Yet there seemed no concern for the dire condition of a dangerous bench, threatening to injure a student at any time. Dianna Schwartz , Public Allies Arizona Alumna. Executive Director. Military Assistance Project. As part of a.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Our second Impact Lab recently announced the Financial Aid Chatbot to support students as they navigate the FAFSA application. We’re looking for new ways technology can help, and we’re looking to bring together experts who are already leading the path forward. Meet Our Salesforce.org Impact Lab Climate Action Experts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 21, 2012

As the Web & Social Media Manager for Camfed USA (The Campaign for Female Education) I am charged with expanding our online presence in new and innovative ways. For example, in the villages of rural Africa where Camfed works, local community members play an essential role in helping girls succeed in school.

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Classy

APRIL 16, 2021

California State Park’s Virtual Earth Day Report helps them track their progress and record their impact for prizes. WildAid uses a proven track record of success with a unique model that will support anti-wildlife consumption and anti-poaching in Asia and Africa, with the support of donations and awareness. Connect with WildAid: .

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Every month NetSquared volunteers hold free or low cost educational events for people and organizations who want to use technology for social good. With 50 groups in 20 countries, there's probably a NetSquared group near you (but if there isn't, we'd love to help you start a new meetup ). :-). Newest Groups.

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APRIL 8, 2014

NTEN committee members are the volunteers who work behind the scenes, contributing their expertise, time, and advice to help shape NTEN programming. Their service is invaluable to helping us develop and improve our offerings to the nonprofit community. Tobias Eigen, Executive Director, Kabissa - Space for Change in Africa.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 18, 2011

For example , if you are an organization working on public education policy changes, you probably recognize teachers as a core demographic to your work – both in supporting the changes you propose as well as helping identify the changes that can and should be made. But how does it help you move closer to your goal?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 5, 2010

The fundraiser's goal to is to raise money for one amazing Mama who dreams of building a home for children in her village in Africa. The money raised from this fundraiser will help build a boarding facility on campus so that every child who attends her school has a place to call home. I love the design.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

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. A group of graduate students from Berkeley were coming to Kenya. I took them up on it.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

The report also highlights the deep impact of technology in a wide range of other issue areas, from agriculture to education to the environment. already exist and are helping create positive social change around the globe. The projects in Technology for Good aren't just limited to disaster and crisis response. Download the report.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

I am very excited about upcoming peer learning projects that I’m working on in 2012, including several for Packard grantees in India, Pakistan, and Africa as well as the e-Mediat project in the Middle East. They gave the students tests based on content and scored them. And the resulting graph is the analysis of 1200 students.

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Tech Soup

JULY 30, 2013

Good thing this has proven false because tablets have contributed to advances in accessibility, early education, and closing the digital divide. Students can actually rent textbooks and read them on the tablet. Having some sort of mobile payment strategy can help you reach a wider donor audience.

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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. Help Special Needs Children Improve Social Skills. Can I Sit With You? Can I Sit With You? Support Children.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 14, 2014

Not only does Indiegogo offer discounts on fees, you can also get a badge on your campaign that says you're a verified 503(c) nonprofit (which, according to the Indiegogo rep I spoke with, helps with garnering donations). Aid Afghanistan for Education and Peace has the lofty $10,000 goal to fund a school of 300 students for a month.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 10, 2013

The diverse crowd, made up of students, activists, government employees, and librarians, worked on datasets presented by the U.S. The challenges included connecting African farmers to markets, creating an online networking space for women veterans, mapping Africa’s natural resources, and a few others. Leonard Library.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 5, 2011

To help, Symantec has sponsored programs aimed at getting more women into and interested in science, computers, and engineering. Symantec’s grant is applied toward their Global Partnership Businesswomen’s Network in the Middle East and North Africa. Education received approximately 50 percent of Symantec’s dollars.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 15, 2009

Wellesley College student, Catlin Powers , is the co-founder of One Earth Designs. The organization helps Himalayan communities, "achieve their unique visions of sustainable living through science/engineering education and infrastructure development." and business skills. Cross-posted from BlogHer.com.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Not only does Indiegogo offer discounts on fees, you can also get a badge on your campaign that says you're a verified 503(c) nonprofit (which, according to the Indiegogo rep I spoke with, helps with garnering donations). Aid Afghanistan for Education and Peace has the lofty $10,000 goal to fund a school of 300 students for a month.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 19, 2009

FORGE serves 60,000 refugees in three different refugee camps in Southern Africa, and is an official operating partner of the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR ). Ultimately, it takes a willingness to allow some failures to occur, but allow those failures to be educational for a community. We have the opportunity to fail.

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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. It’s been a real game-changer for us.

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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. While things have changed here in the US, in Cambodia, women and girls face tremendous odds trying to get an education.

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Everyaction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

The Net Impact Conference is the premier gathering of students and professionals who are committed to making a lasting social and environmental impact now and for a lifetime. INBOUND's purpose is to provide the inspiration, education, and connections you need to transform your business. South Africa / $250. South Africa.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 20, 2008

I heard from CEOs whose center is the only one in their entire country (Chile), educators who work with students who have never encountered a computer before entering the science center (South Africa), and web managers whose sites are locked behind federal government firewalls and draconian restrictions (Australia).

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 24, 2007

It basically links consumers, you and me, to third-world families, and through more direct trade helps those families get a fair price for their coffee, their tea, their bananas, whatever it is they produce. Helping families keep their kids in school, helping them farm in a sustainable manner. Everyone goes to the store.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

We serve over 150,000 students with disabilities alone with free online services funded by the Department of Education (however, nothing contained in this post has anything to do with our funders). We work in North Africa Latin America, Asia: most of the places where large scale human rights abuses are going on. Wonderful stuff.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Each one of these terrific people has committed to spending anywhere from a month to a year helping Benetech with his or her skills and passion. When he was 22, Craig launched a company to help partially sighted children. He followed up by launching another company helping startups find funding, write business plans, etc.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

You did a webinar for us last year, had to have you back, check her out over at Leadership Savvy, does a lot of good work helping folks with strategic planning, which you’re going to talk about obviously, and just an awesome person. So we’ll have some tools to help you manage the process as well. Julie: Great.

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sgEngage

MAY 6, 2021

Here’s a timeline with links to articles about significant events over the last century that helped form our current context: . 1950s & 1960s – Electrical and Mine Workers Unions started investing pension capital in affordable housing and health facilities . . the Occupational Safety and Health Act, and the Clean Air?Act.?

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 30, 2012

In September, we asked nonprofits and libraries to show us exactly how technology activates their organization and helps fulfill their mission. And the entries came from all over the world, from our own backyard San Francisco to Canada and even as far as Lesotho, Africa! What does technology in action look like? From Canada to Lesotho.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2016

And, Bookshare’s promise to K-12 students with these kinds of disabilities is that if they need specific titles for school, we’ll get them. Right now we are successfully convincing major educational publishers to build accessibility features into their standard ebooks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 8, 2011

We serve over 150,000 students with disabilities alone with free online services funded by the Department of Education (however, nothing contained in this post has anything to do with our funders). We work in North Africa Latin America, Asia: most of the places where large scale human rights abuses are going on. Wonderful stuff.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2014

While the primary goal is for students to learn about strategic use of networks and social media for international organizations, I will also be covering some practical career skills such as effective networking and self-directed professional learning (also called “Social Learning”). Benchmark Studies and Examples.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JULY 29, 2022

As we look at the challenges that we are facing in the world today, I firmly believe that education is the key to us coming together to solve them. After all, as Nelson Mandela said, education is the greatest weapon that we have to improve the state of the world. Charlotte Kirby: Why and how did you start Malaika?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 2, 2013

That said, in 2012 I had the opportunity to travel to Africa and Asia and from those travel experiences three themes emerged that inspired the selection of this year’s nonprofits: 1) Women’s and girls empowerment; 2) Conservation of wildlife and wild lands; and 3) Access to medical care. 10×10 :: @ 10x10Act.

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