Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 26, 2008

Sign on up for Breadline Africa's Blogger Bakeoff , a year-long campaign (October 15, 2008-October 15, 2009) to raise 1 million dollars for Breadline Africa's projects by, "baking bread and giving dough." Here's how it works. Make a donation to Breadline Africa. Join the campaign. And many more!

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2010

with print disabilities, with more than 70,000 copyrighted works in our library, the majority of which have been created under the US copyright exception by volunteers, mainly people with disabilities themselves, helping each other. • We now have global permissions for around 8,000 copyrighted books out of our 70,000. •

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

This is totally the “how sausage and law are made” view, so don’t read this unless you want to know more about global accessibility in detail! The nexus for this work is the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), the United Nations agency that deals with such matters. law works: the one that made Bookshare possible.

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APRIL 20, 2021

McGruder, the Ford Foundation’s Chief Operating Officer and Treasurer, oversees Ford’s global operations and finances for its offices in New York, Africa, Asia, and Latin America. United for Social Change, sister organizations working to positively influence how black boys and men are perceived and treated by law enforcement and in society.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 20, 2019

Proceeds benefit the American Civil Liberties Union, a nonprofit that works to defend the rights and liberties guaranteed by the Constitution and laws of the United States. Proceeds benefit Amnesty International, a nonprofit that works for the human rights of all people – no matter who they are or where they are.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 1, 2016

What laws they violate. When we called an LGBT organization in Africa last year for a regular check-in, we found that they took the call from the back yard of their offices. We should not compel them to work against the interests of us, their users. Who they love. What religion they profess. Their ethnicity. Every secret.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

He went on to become Benetech’s Vice President of Human Rights and led our human rights work for nine years. Having pioneered the idea of making strong security accessible to human rights practitioners, we helped dramatically change the way in which human rights work is done. Photo credits: Rom Srinivasan and Patrick Ball.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 26, 2017

One of them was Vincent Law who is doing interesting work with teaching young children about giving and philanthropy. Empower Young Children through Philanthropy – guest blog post by Vincent Law, CEO and Founder at PhilanthroKids Academy. As you might know, the English word ‘Philanthropy’ has a Greek origin.

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Tech Soup

MAY 12, 2014

I also liked the work we did a few years ago to support telecentres in poor communities affected by civil war in Colombia. The challenge to providing help to this quarter of the world’s people is the growing body of anti-terrorism laws in the world, like the USA Patriot Act and Executive Order 13224 in the United States.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 29, 2008

One of the key leaders I met described China as "Europe in the cities, Africa in the countryside." Plus, not all work is done to U.S. environmental or workplace safety laws (even in their weakened post-Bush state). I was surprised to watch linemen at work, literally hanging from the electrical wires!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2016

In 2016 half a billion women still cannot read, 62 million girls are denied the right to education and 155 countries still have laws that differentiate between men and women. Their studies, work with technology, and their lives have been disrupted. 2016 is the year that real money and reforms must start to right these wrongs.

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JULY 23, 2012

Prior to this, Ghazal worked at the award-winning public relations firm Hayes & Associates as a development consultant leading event fundraising efforts. In addition to his work in the environmental advocacy arena, Eric has extensive experience working on political and issue campaigns from Wyoming to South Africa.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 19, 2010

In TechSoup's work to advocate for electronics reuse and recycling, it has become increasingly clear that electronics products are the most complex and difficult goods to recycle. There are just a few industrial electronics recycling companies in all of South America, Africa, and most of Asia. read more.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 1, 2004

I did get the chance to give a talk to the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School. I came away with a handful of great ideas (such as the possible marriage of digital talking books and community radio in Africa) and offers of assistance with some of the legal issues surrounding our work.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 22, 2015

In December 2013, drones from the NGO Direct Relief were put to work assessing damage and participating in search and rescue operations in the super typhoon Haiyan-stricken Philippines. In Africa, conservation drones are being used to locate rhinoceros poachers. Rescue workers on the ground then knew exactly where to go. In the U.S.,

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

That basically entails figuring out how to allow staff and volunteers to get work email, documents and other data on their own mobile devices – and what to do when phones and tablets get lost or stolen. That makes them the official NPTech organization of the year, but we found some pretty outstanding work going on among others as well.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

So if any of you work overseas you might want to connect with him as well, even, especially if you’re in the ministry world too. . Yeah, looks like it’s working. I was sharing with Steven earlier, you know, we’re working in about 20 different countries and are managing $50 million in development costs.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

We’re against piracy, and have made commitments to authors and publishers to encourage compliance with copyright law. Most of the time, that works great, and we end up making a new friend after they dig a little and find out that we are closer to Florence Nightingale than the Dread Pirate Roberts. Unfortunately, that’s not the case.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 5, 2013

The WEEE Directive is the set of laws that governs the proper collection and disposal of Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) in the 27 countries of the European Union. The latest update of the law is expected to be formally approved in 2014. has a patchwork of laws in half of the U.S.

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sgEngage

MAY 6, 2021

According to Earthday.org, “b y the end of 1970, the first Earth Day led to the creation of the United States Environmental Protection Agency and the passage of other first of their kind environmental laws, including the National Environmental Education Act,?the the Occupational Safety and Health Act, and the Clean Air?Act.? Billion. . .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 8, 2011

We’re against piracy, and have made commitments to authors and publishers to encourage compliance with copyright law. Most of the time, that works great, and we end up making a new friend after they dig a little and find out that we are closer to Florence Nightingale than the Dread Pirate Roberts. Unfortunately, that’s not the case.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2016

I just read the new book from Sally Osberg, President and CEO of the Skoll Foundation, and strategy guru Roger Martin, Getting Beyond Better: How Social Entrepreneurship Works. But, it’s always useful to explore the framework of one’s work. Osberg & Martin, Getting Beyond Better: How Social Entrepreneurship Works, 2015.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

This latest one spotlights the many great interns, associates and fellows that are or were working for Benetech over this summer and into this year. Jule has been working with Benetech’s Human Rights Data Analysis Group, HRDAG, which completed analyzing data for Liberia’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2014

After completing the course, the students will be doing an internship as part of their field work, being placed in international organizations in the US and other places in the world. They will be doing a variety of work tasks (not just social media and networks). There are many labs working on projects.

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APRIL 21, 2021

Some 20 years ago, when working as vice president for peace and social justice at the Ford Foundation , I was approached by the Vera Institute of Justice about a global initiative focused on prosecuting the police. What works (and what doesn’t) is already known. My own experience with police reform.

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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. Wildlife SOS :: @ WildlifeSOS.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

This blog post includes some reflections about my first visit to Africa, the importance of face-to-face meetings and building relationships, and some thoughts about how some of the ideas in the Networked Nonprofit transcend boundaries. Ushahidi has had impressive growth over the past 18 months and most visible was its work with Haiti.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2007

Traditional offline/online fundraising techniques still, of course, work. Geekcorps Mali works to create and deploy ICT solutions that are sustainable and appropriate for Mali. Britt Bravo asks us to encourage people we know working on a social impact technology project to nominate their project for Netsquared Innovation Fund Award.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 19, 2007

They sat side by side to discuss the role of women in rebuilding society, women's rights and the new Constitution, and family law. T he program works in Afghanistan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Colombia, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Iraq, Kosovo, Nigeria, Rwanda and Sudan. Together they shared their lives, their hopes and dreams.

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MAY 13, 2011

I encourage you to read over the report so that you can better understand how these trends work together to help you develop an even more meaningful and clear idea of the future of the sector. The second came involuntarily as slaves from Africa. "Convergence" is a great place to start. So, lets dive in.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 30, 2007

I asked four of the women who I had previously interviewed for the Big Vision Podcast to share what brought them to their work, and their advice for the graduate and undergraduate women who attended the conference. So those are the main things, if you're interested in that kind of work. There are a lot of people who don't.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

We’re a former grantee and we hope that our work and Gates funding priorities coincide again in the future. We’ve spent a lot of time over the past few years advocating against cuts to the funding that supports our work, by pointing out how amazingly effective this funding is. That’s all of the legal work-up on a treaty and how U.S.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 25, 2007

You only need five guys in lab coats to run a whole nuclear power plant, but if you are going with solar pad power, or if you are going with biofuels or whatever, it is just a lot more work, a lot more jobs. The government doesn't need to put everybody to work necessarily, though it may get to that point.

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