Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 13, 2010

Government as usual is changing fast, because it needs to. The social sector is having to evolve in this changing world. For example, we combined the business strategies of Amazon and (the old) Napster to create Bookshare to bring accessible talking books to students who can't read print books because of their disabilities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2012

We all recognize how consumer feedback drives competition, innovation, and continual adjustments in the for profit world—who hasn’t read Amazon reviews before buying a product or Tripadvisor to research a hotel? It’s time for change. Asking the Customer.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 3, 2013

In what is known as the “ braille provision ,” the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) of 2004 mandates that the teams who help write educational plans for students with disabilities presume that all blind and visually impaired children should be taught Braille unless it is determined to be inappropriate. Accordingly, U.S.

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Classy

APRIL 16, 2021

Volkswagen, GM, Amazon, and the USPS pledged a commitment to green vehicles. Organization Mission: The Clean Energy Leadership Institute (CELI) believes in creating a diverse community of change-makers across sectors and disciplines to drive an equitable, decarbonized, and resilient energy ecosystem. The six largest banks in the U.S.

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Cloud 4 Good

AUGUST 25, 2022

For most modern businesses, technology is the engine of transformative change, driving companies toward profit. The American Civil Liberties Union tested Amazon’s “Rekognition” facial surveillance technology and found the technology falsely matched 28 members of Congress with mugshots in a criminal database.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

It’s also not the time to invite people to purchase event tickets or buy something from your Amazon wish list. For example, if your photo and accompanying story show a young person in your program delivering groceries to an older person, go with, “Older people count on our students to bring their groceries.” Include all ways to give.

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Nimble AMS

OCTOBER 2, 2019

Salesforce has even extended its training to the next generation of employees by offering Salesforce Student Programs to help students and career changers learn in-demand job skills. Of course, technology and the expectations of members and staff around technology are changing rapidly. Providing a personalized experience.

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Nimble AMS

OCTOBER 2, 2019

Salesforce has even extended its training to the next generation of employees by offering Salesforce Student Programs to help students and career changers learn in-demand job skills. Of course, technology and the expectations of members and staff around technology are changing rapidly. Providing a personalized experience.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 28, 2009

" The TwitterKids of Tanzania | The Epic Change Blog – A beautiful update from the Epic Change blog where Stacey and Avi are now in Tanzania working with the "school that Twitter built" last year from proceeds of Tweetsgiving, and where this year's donations will help bring technology. "Hujambo

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 28, 2009

" The TwitterKids of Tanzania | The Epic Change Blog - A beautiful update from the Epic Change blog where Stacey and Avi are now in Tanzania working with the "school that Twitter built" last year from proceeds of Tweetsgiving, and where this year's donations will help bring technology. "Hujambo

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 16, 2022

Monthly giving can change the game for your new, young, or small nonprofit! As with all Asks, center your language around the things you’ll be able to do with the donor’s money – like the lives they’ll be able to change. As you see your monthly donor base grow, you’ll see your programs flourish and be able to change more lives.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 5, 2019

Additionally, constituents are used to pulling up Amazon and making a one-click order and they expect a similar online experience wherever they go. Changes in the tax landscape are starting to impact fundraising, but it’s too early to tell how. . Download the full report at [link].

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

I also ask for feedback on what exercises or content in the workshop helped learning and what should be changed. You can also handout index cards and ask people to write “positives” on one side and “please change” on the other. What part of the workshop should be changed to improve learning?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2016

Framework for Producing Transformative Change Two key concepts from the book really stuck with me. The first is their core concept of equilibrium change. The primary goal in the Valley is massive change, because when you’re a for-profit that magnitude usually yields massive profits. The authors present a two-by-two matrix.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

His expertise includes change management and constituent relationship management strategy and implementation. While at Discovery Communications, she managed paid search and developed partnerships with Amazon and eBay, both in conjunction with Discovery Channel's online store. She also launched a corporate sales business.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 9, 2007

As I mentioned last week, I'll be speaking about blogging at the Writing for Change Conference in San Francisco this month. In the interview transcript below, Elizabeth talks about the conference and offers tips for writers who want to write for change. Elizabeth Pomada: Hi, I'm Elizabeth Pomada. It's been very fast.

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Tech Soup

MAY 23, 2014

The Microsoft Imagine Cup is a student competition to create innovative IT projects and ultimately bring those ideas to market. Very sophisticated for a student team. The New York City-based nonprofit Spare Change is developing a smartphone app that will soon launch. Find out more on this new service here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

Over the last year, I have had to explain how social media works to diplomats, defense officials, and academics and students focused on fields as diverse as international affairs, management and sociology. I believe that the tools are transient, the buzzwords will change, but the value system embedded in these 4Cs is here to stay.

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Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

How To Save The Planet: 10 Changes With The Biggest Impact. With the clock ticking, we’ve evaluated the impact of the biggest changes we can make for the planet. But are our ‘little changes’ actually making the big impact we’ve been promised – or should we do more? by Zoe Allen.

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Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

How To Save The Planet: 10 Changes With The Biggest Impact. With the clock ticking, we’ve evaluated the impact of the biggest changes we can make for the planet. But are our ‘little changes’ actually making the big impact we’ve been promised – or should we do more? by Zoe Allen.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Whether you are trying to advance the Sustainable Development Goals , meet the complex challenge of climate change , or any combination of the critical problems of our time , it is clear that no single nonprofit can solve global challenges alone. Amazon is more than just where you get your last-minute holiday gifts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

which was a remix of Marnie Webb 's Ten Ways Nonprofits Can Change the World. Guide your students to conversations and resources. Collaboration on student projects or other ways. Such a culture would be, by default, permissive of efforts to improve upon, change, integrate, or otherwise remix. I'm nervous. Hiring people.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

Imagine someone who can offer to mashup your Advocacy Campaign results with Google Maps, or Fundraising Campaigns with Amazon and eBay. I think the bad things will be that big business will try to push the little guy out of the way and some new legislation will to through in record time calling for changes in the child labor law.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

Imagine someone who can offer to mashup your Advocacy Campaign results with Google Maps, or Fundraising Campaigns with Amazon and eBay. I think the bad things will be that big business will try to push the little guy out of the way and some new legislation will to through in record time calling for changes in the child labor law.

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Givinga

JANUARY 8, 2019

That’s changing, and will continue to shift in 2019. Amazon, for example, is leveraging new markets like Singapore² and products that are ‘Fulfilled by Amazon’, to keep growing. Many top companies, including Intel, Google, Microsoft and others¹, have established corporate responsibility and philanthropy programs.

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Givinga

JANUARY 8, 2019

That’s changing, and will continue to shift in 2019. Amazon, for example, is leveraging new markets like Singapore² and products that are ‘Fulfilled by Amazon’, to keep growing. Many top companies, including Intel, Google, Microsoft and others¹, have established corporate responsibility and philanthropy programs.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 3, 2015

The world seems to be changing at a more rapid pace than any other time in history. One such participant was Erik Goebel, a 29-year-old University of Minnesota graduate student studying chemistry, a self-described geek who "likes to experiment with new technologies and try new gizmos and gadgets." Amazon Payments.

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DNL OmniMedia

OCTOBER 22, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic, social distancing guidelines, and a disrupted economy have all completely changed business-as-usual for nonprofits. Interlochen Center for the Arts (ICA) is a nonprofit educational institution dedicated to empowering students of all ages through high-quality arts and cultural programs. Nonprofit Website Overview.

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Non Profit Quarterly

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Computer science is one of the most popular majors at Stanford—it’s taken by nearly 20 percent of the student body. But in recent years, this trio of professors noticed their students were often attracted to the field mainly because of its financial rewards. So, we talk about a system Amazon built, for example, for résumé screening.

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