Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 18, 2011

I get to spend most of my time talking to people about social good: what we're doing with technology, what our partners are doing and what the many cool people we get to meet are doing along the way. D-Rev wants to create solutions to help the poorest people in the world. My job is so much fun!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 14, 2012

In the LinkedIn discussion, Suzanne McDonald gives the example of Coca Cola, which is funding AIDS prevention in Africa but being sued in India for contaminating groundwater. Is the work in Africa worth the lives of those in India? Our choices and our voices matter. But a lot of money was raised for women’s health.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 7, 2008

Be A Voice for Darfur is an excellent example of multi-channel campaign designed to bring attention to the appalling genocide in Darfur. Despite numerous dedicated efforts to end this crisis, Darfuri people are still suffering and struggling to survive. Most importantly, you can influence others to stand up and be a voice for Darfur.

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APRIL 16, 2021

Organization Mission: The California State Parks Foundation delivers innovative solutions for an excellent park system by facilitating park improvements, inspiring stewardship, supporting partners, advocating for sound policies, and connecting people to 280 state parks to enjoy now and for generations to come. Connect with WildAid: .

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Care2

OCTOBER 11, 2011

One of the worst humanitarian crises continues to escalate in the Horn of Africa, where famine, war and drought are threatening 13M+ people. Thankfully, we have some incredible nonprofits on the ground who continue to tackle these issues everyday, raise awareness and mobilize people into action.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 26, 2021

We need every solution and every solver…What this moment calls for is a mosaic of voices — the full spectrum of ideas and insights for now we can turn things around.” – Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Katharine K. There is already research out there on how climate change is disproportionately impacting people of color.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Organization Size: Approximately 70 DC/stateside employees; more than 100 field staff employees in eight countries in Africa, the Balkans and the Middle East. We currently have nearly 50,000 Facebook fans and posting there helps us reach the most people, though the focus of how we’re using Facebook is changing (more on that below).

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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 never going to regularly connect people face-to-face … but we can connect digitally.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2012

On Tuesday, right before the KONY video exploded on the mainstreams and went viral online, my 6th grade son came home from school and announced, ”Did you know that there are more people on Facebook today compared to the number of people on the planet ten years ago? I immediately asked him how do you know that?

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Key themes this year were the power of technology innovations to change the world (along with the need to ensure equal access to technology), the importance of gender equality to achieve all the SDGs, and how one individual can make a big difference by raising their voice, no matter their age. Quiz: How well do you know the SDGs?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2016

It is an outrage that girls account for 74% of all new HIV infections among adolescents in Africa, and 40% of women on the continent suffer from anemia which results in 20% of maternal deaths. The One Campaign has launched an open letter signed by 86 leading voices for women around the world.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 9, 2007

The best part of my job is brainstorming with brilliant, passionate people around social issues. He would like to see the disability community speak with one voice on these issues. Of course, Second Life is completely inaccessible to blind people right now. Although it was October, the weather was even nicer than California.

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Tech Soup

MAY 19, 2014

How do you talk about the enslavement of 30 million people in just 140 characters or in a simple Facebook post? How do you ask people to engage with such a horrifying subject, not just once, but over and over again? Not For Sale operates in Peru, the Netherlands, India, South Africa, and Romania. or read on for a recap.

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Tech Soup

MAY 12, 2014

to report on Tech for Good trends and also to find out how things are going in one of the most challenging areas of philanthropy: providing much needed help and support to people in the Muslim world. One of the things TechSoup does well is to bring relevant tools and resources to the needs that people have on the ground. Dara Westling.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 3, 2008

Africa the next Chapter??? The eastern forest of Madagascar is populated by not only lemurs and other wildlife creatures, but also by the Malagasy people whose survival has for centuries depended on the forest. The project was funded by Rising Voices , the outreach arm of Global Voices.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

International Development Exchange touts that a $100 donation initiates a rural women’s organic farming collective inSouth Africa. Concentrate instead on finding your voice and nurturing your communities. If your communities are engaged, then a few people will respond and give. Inspire first; ask later.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

If web users knew of someone else who needed help, 44 percent would ask other people in their social network to contact authorities, 35 percent would post a request for help directly on a response agency’s Facebook page and 28 percent would send a direct Twitter message to responders. Social media, like all technology, is developed by people.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 1, 2008

According to a recent AP report , 300,000 people in Kenya were forced to leave their homes, and over 800 people were killed during this past month's post-election violence. What are some other ideas for how people can help? I want to do something. Photo Credit: Red Cross by DEMOSH. Check out his other photos. Kenya donation

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

That’s why we added in a general profile picture and some text around the organization’s impact beforehand, all in the voice of the fundraiser, so that the page is engaging even if it’s not updated by the individual fundraisers. Start sending personal emails to individuals, or at least smaller groups of people.

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NTEN

JULY 18, 2013

I was always hyper curious about why and how people gather." Just like a corporation can''t force people to be your consumers. People will get a very real sense from a tweet, Instagram post, Facebook video if you are what you say you are. So any campaign that people activate is based off that trusted space.

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

Two years ago, Bev Clark, the co-founder of Kubatana.net , was awarded a large grant in the Knight News Challenge for Freedom Fone, an open-source software platform for distributing news and information through interactive voice response (IVR) technology. . Capturing Voices from the Field in Tanzania.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

Even if we don’t go in those directions, the challenge of figuring out how to push something new whilst staying true to our voice is enjoyable. Pratima: A big design challenge, which we’re in the process of tackling, is standardizing our guidelines regarding style, voice, tone, etc. Pratima: The people are nice. But it’s true.

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NonProfit Hub

MARCH 26, 2015

HALO, which works with disadvantaged youth in Missouri and Africa, gives this award as part of a handful of awards at an annual happy hour to honor the volunteers. “We It happens when people feel like they are contributing in meaningful way.”. For me, engagement is the key metric that’s impossible to measure,” he said. “It

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2009

While young people and early adopters increasingly turn to the social Web not only to socialize but to communicate, explore new ideas and share new experiences, nonprofits and social change organizations are still generally stuck in the top-down, one-way world of Web 1.0. The team at BlitzLocal in Boulder, Colo.

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NTEN

JULY 23, 2009

VozMob: Mobile Voices/Voces Moviles. Mobile Voices offers an open-source multi-media platform optimized for low-cost mobile phones that lets users create, share, and reflect on stories about their lives and communities. There were 14 great teams pitching their Projects at the Conference, but only 3 voted as prize winners.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

Since then, the platform (which is open source ) has been modified for use in South Africa (mapping xenophobic violence), DR Congo , Vote Report India (to monitor the recent local elections) and more. Most people are already familiar with the American Red Cross and the speed with which they jumped into action after the January earthquakes.

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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. You can also use it get a better understanding of people’s experience in the room.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

While my objective was to make positive change, when I came at it from a place that was angry, I saw - I think this has been visible to many people who have worked in social change movements - that my anger was not growing the movement. It wasn't bringing people toward us. Why do people who are not chosen end up out in the cold?

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 22, 2010

The curator of the museum, Wayne, is the son of the former principal of the black school, and about a third of the exhibits showcase people and objects from that school. The stories conveyed the unique voice and spirit of these people in a way that helped me feel connected to them—even though we come from entirely different worlds.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 30, 2009

"The people I see who are successful in bringing their vision to fruition are people who have a clear vision. Once people figure out how they want to make a difference, how do you help them figure out the steps to make it real? People might get stuck in the "how," and the entire plan. Pick a place to start from.

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EveryAction

MARCH 16, 2017

Invest in organizations like Women Made Gallery , American Women Artists , the Professional Organization for Women in the Arts , WGAW , and the National Museum of Women in the Arts which help give a voice and a future to female artists worldwide. Anika Rahman is a Bangladeshi-American lawyer and prominent voice in the ecofeminism movement.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 24, 2007

Britt Bravo: Why should people buy Fair Trade products like coffee and chocolate? People are trading up, as it were. People are looking for higher quality food, they're looking for healthier food, and they're looking for a more pleasurable experience around food. Climate change is on people's minds.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 3, 2006

I recently posted my interview with Steve Williams, the Executive Director and co-founder of POWER: People Organized to Win Employment Rights on the Big Vision Podcast. Steve Williams: POWER stands for "People Organized to Win Employment Rights" and we are a membership organization of low-wage workers and tenants.

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Everyaction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

TechNow connects you with the resources, information and people your nonprofit needs to succeed! New voices energizing conversations. Meaning is the annual gathering for people who believe business can and must be a force for positive change in our dynamic and volatile world. South Africa / $250. South Africa.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

60% of the world’s youth are living in Africa without proper access to education, and also in other regions of the world we’re still feeling the impact of two and a half years of young people being out of education due to the pandemic. What he says is not just being said from one country, one party perspective or one company.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2017

More and more people are adopting social media messaging, including Facebook Messenger , to contact nonprofits with questions, comments, or requests. But what makes this bot most engaging is good storytelling shared in a conversational way, matching the pope’s tone of voice and illustrated with photos, video, and audio. Why Use One?

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 15, 2008

She went from being somebody's servant to somebody who when she walks down the street of her community, people stop her and shake her hand and thank her for the stories that she is telling, or ask, 'When are you going to interview me? The secondary goal is to provide better free, or fair information to people in these countries.

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