Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 22, 2013

The need to get practical, to find a business model that provides massive financial return to investors, means that many great ideas get put back on the shelf when the inventors realize that they aren’t a fit for the venture capital model. I want to advocate for “giving the sleeves off your vest” strategy!

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Classy

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. In addition, Classy has a really impressive platform and business model with a lot of potential for growth given the broader societal shift to online giving.”.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 7, 2013

Reading a Bookshare-downloaded book on the BrailleNote portable device Launched in 2007 to replicate the proven Bookshare model internationally, our Bookshare International library has already grown to serve members in more than 40 countries , many of whom are in the developing world.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

DECEMBER 1, 2022

As we prepare to mark World AIDS Day on December 1st, we sat down with Jennifer Lotito, the President and COO of (RED), to learn more about (RED)’s success model and how the organization is creating lasting change. The Global Fund recently launched the Digital Health Impact Accelerator (DHIA), a catalytic fund for digital health in Africa.

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Everyaction

JUNE 20, 2018

Asylum Access focuses on refugees from Africa, Asia, and Latin America (the areas with most of the world’s refugees), and works to help refugees assert their rights in the present and transform systems for a safer and more just future. Asylum Access.

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Byte Technology

OCTOBER 13, 2016

But now, in parts of Africa and Asia, drones being flown at night have been able to detect the presence of poachers and give immediate locations that allow wildlife rangers to deploy quickly and stop the horrible killings.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2012

For the past ten days, I’ve been in Rwanda, Africa. ” I learned later from Cheryl that she has conducted this exercise for many leadership programs throughout Africa and had learned it from her mentor, Birgitt Williams , who is an international expert in holistic leadership and design of participatory programs.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 30, 2012

Benetech operates at the heart of the new social economy, as illustrated by our innovative approach to picking up ventures that can make revolutionary impact on the social sector and by our business model that hinges on “building the last social mile” to fill the gap between what’s possible and what’s profitable with technology.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

We've been testing the Ambassador model for the last two years, and it has been been instrumental in the growth of NetSquared. The link need to be like so: Africa. Africa + Middle East. TARGET END LINKS ## Central and South America. ## North America. ## Africa. ## Europe. ## Asia and Pacific Rim. --> North America.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2012

In 2008, she asked for advice about raising money to go to Africa to help support the first community access television station opening in Ghana. In 2008, I raised money to go to Africa to help support the first community access television station opening in Ghana. At that time I made a blog and raised $2,000 using Chipin.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 14, 2013

This week we learn about the Resilient Africa Network (RAN), which is helping African students use open data for disaster relief. RAN is establishing Resilience Innovation Labs within participating universities throughout Africa, coupled with online laboratories and a new online science library to help with its work.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 1, 2011

While social media continues to make headlines as a critical agent of change in recent and ongoing revolutions and protests in North Africa and the Middle East, the PdF Network Call series is taking a fresh look at a perennial opportunity for nonprofits: how to use social media to fundraise. Read his full bio below. This Thursday at 1 p.m.

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Classy

APRIL 16, 2021

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. The fundraising campaign allows anyone in the world to partner in this mission and saves millions of animals in the process.

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Tech Soup

JULY 8, 2011

multilaterals, and high-impact entrepreneurs in the social media space, mostly from the western world and Africa, besides others. “[In Africa] the race is on to find what mobiles can do in areas as disparate as public health, governance and education.” development in Africa. face and how we could help solve them.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 27, 2015

A recent World Economic Forum report estimates that shifting to this model could add more than $1 trillion every year to the global economy by 2025 and create 100,000 new jobs within the next five years. Clic Vert is a significant international environmental and ICT for development project that is not well known outside of France and Africa.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2011

I’ve had the opportunity to work in Canada, Australia, Cambodia, Romania, India, UK, and Africa and enjoy the extra dimension of understanding different cultures as part of the instructional and learning process. Transparency is one of the ideas and, of course, we’ll be modeling this. This year my birthday (Jan.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Priscilla Chomba Kinywa is a digital transformation strategist with twenty years of experience working with large non-profits in 55 countries across Africa, Asia, Europe, Americas and the Pacific. “As For the last 20+ years, she has worked in management with and for nonprofit organizations. CTO, Greenpeace International.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Peter has extensive international experience in Latin America and Africa and discussed the problems and solutions he sees from the ground. Peter believes that the consortium is an attractive model that can be replicated in other regions of the world.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 15, 2017

These finance models rely upon nonprofits to deliver their programs, yet there is a dearth of guidance for nonprofit leaders to understand the opportunities – and risks – they represent. In June 2016 a bipartisan bill passed the House of Representatives to allocate $300 million for state and local SIBs over ten years (Wallace, 2015).

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 14, 2012

We built it to be a tool that truly puts power and responsibility in the hands of its users, and we’re finally beginning to change the Martus project’s operations to match that model. I head out again soon to meet with potential Martus users in Southern Africa – in other words, I’m returning to focus on specific projects.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 10, 2013

The company recently joined forces with the Cheetah Conservation Fund (CCF) in Namibia – the largest research and education center for the conservation of cheetahs – to support the endangered cheetah in their race for survival by taking the cheetah’s plight out of Africa and placing it on the backs of activists nationwide.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 10, 2013

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. He also spoke about the importance of hackathons in general and why we need more events like these.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 11, 2011

When Cancer Council SA (that’s South Australia, not South Africa) started the Ambassador Project as an experiment in revitalizing volunteerism and community fundraising , jumping in to the social media pond was not even on the agenda. We’re not a model networked nonprofit … yet. Preparing to swim.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2015

” Leadership modeling is important. When they launched their staff as champion strategy, they had to make the case that it was worth the investment of their time. Daniel Bekele , Africa Director. When our staff researchers observed him diving in, it gave them more confidence to participate.”

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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 ). The model that FORGE takes is really a long-term impact framework. Now 26, Erickson is still FORGE's Executive Director. It's the same thing in a development context.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2009

This includes leadership, social innovation, communications, branding, graphic facilitation, financial and funding models. I appreciated the facilitation provided by Mukara Meredith who integrates universal principles of healing into a new model of leadership called Matrixworks. Social Media Strategy As Design Process.

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NTEN

APRIL 24, 2012

We do this in in urban settings in Asia and Africa, where children live at the intersection of two streets: (1) worst water quality conditions and (2) greatest degrees of poverty. There are skilled tradespeople in every country we serve, and local talent makes our model far more sustainable. (As

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Essentially, they noticed that mortality rates were decreasing for all age groups except adolescents, particularly in Eastern/Southern Africa. If S/HE raises $3,000, S/HE could qualify for a trip to one of their programs in South Africa! In Sub-Saharan Africa, girls account for 74% of new infections among adolescents.

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Forum One

JUNE 18, 2009

To encourage investigation at the level of *system* rather than the isolated individual issues that get funders' attention, she proposes building a simplified conceptual model for health data that will help students, funders, and researchers--and the general public, too--gain greater insight into systemic data collection issues and solutions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

On Eugene's site, you can see a much better video of the exercise with participants in Africa. Eugene talked about the importance of modeling to create. "You Modeling the norm. To create an environment where the network can learn from each other requires intentional modeling. (4) 3) Be what you want to see.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 23, 2007

Schwab Foundation board members Paolo Coehlo (the noted Brazilian author), Zanelle Mbeki (first lady of South Africa) and Hilde Schwab, the co-founder of the Schwab Foundation. On Monday we were joined by a dazzling array of global leaders who are interested in social entrepreneurship.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 14, 2014

Indiegogo is quite a bit more flexible than Kickstarter, giving you the option to choose an "all-or-nothing model or to keep your pledges whether you not you reach your goal. Nonprofit Success Story : One Girl, an Australian-based nonprofit, held a fundraiser for providing education opportunities for girls in rural Africa.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

” I don’t have an answer, but I think it has to do with modeling conscious information and consumption and being mindful about how you connect with people, cultivate relationships, and share information.

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

Recently, Freedom Fone was adapted by two farm radio stations through the African Radio Research Initiative , a 42-month project, the aim of which was to assess the effectiveness and impact of farm radio in many parts of Africa. . But, turns out, they do,” Sullivan said.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

Six Proposals That Impact Civil Society in Africa looked at the six Net2 attributes and africa location. Here's Steve Wright modeling his ). Andy Carvin and Jonnie Goldstein interviewed a person from one of two projects based in Cambodia. Ten Tech Proposals Empowering Human Rights, Local Leadership, and Community Education is.

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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. A few days ago I opened the door on a new learning journey. Begin Connections.

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See3

JUNE 15, 2007

The program ended with a South African woman named Mama G, who thanked AJWS and its supporters for helping fight HIV/AIDS in Africa. Actuallly, dessert was Clinton and Curry… two good role models for all of us. And she sang a thank you song that was moving and beautiful and upbeat. Stay tuned for some video from the event.

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