Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 17, 2017

Wake’s Tech2Empower program organizes delegations of volunteer Technology Advisors, women who work for Silicon Valley companies like Google, Salesforce, Mozilla, YouTube, GE Digital and IRC, to provide training for women’s rights and girls empowerment NGOs in developing countries and here in the United States. … Read More

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

The targets need to be linked like so: --> Jump to events in North America , or go international with events in. TARGET END LINKS. ## Central and South America. ## North America. ## Africa. ## Europe. ## Asia and Pacific Rim. --> North America. San Francisco, California: Code for America Civic Hack Night.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 3, 2013

“As organizations,” Osborne said, “we must liberate spending to focus on the promotion, learning and innovation around braille,” and recognize that we ought to embrace today’s changing economics and technology so that braille can be part of an equation which delivers access to information for all, not just to those who can afford it.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

At PIMCO, we understand that it’s our responsibility to effect meaningful social change, both as members of an organization and as part of our larger communities. As a firm, our family of 2,600 professionals across 17 global offices engages in volunteer opportunities throughout the Americas, Europe, and Asia. Gender Equality (Goal 5).

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Bloomerang

APRIL 7, 2022

To that end, I’ve compiled a list of funders who spend their time and grantmaking resources on assisting women-led movements to advance meaningful change. Their unique model of local fundraising and local giving through their chapters engages thousands of women across North America to give generously in support of their mission.

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Kindful

MARCH 5, 2021

To that end, I’ve compiled a list of funders who spend their time and grantmaking resources on assisting women-led movements to advance meaningful change. Their unique model of local fundraising and local giving through their chapters engages thousands of women across North America to give generously in support of their mission.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Our Time (Facebook) is a nonprofit dedicated to youth empowerment through the voting process. ClassTalk was made through Code for America , a nonprofit that connects app developers with civic leaders to solve city problems. Khan Academy (Windows Phone, iPad) is a nonprofit on a mission to change education.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 12, 2011

To foster social good and create social change? For example, the Latin America Work Group’s website is www.lawg.org , but when the organization was setting up its profiles on Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, “lawg” was not available on all three sites. The overall message should be one of empowerment, not control and restriction.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 19, 2011

movement, a world of 7 billion has implications for sustainability, urbanization, access to health services, and youth empowerment. You can, according to Wired , “compare the population across Europe and North America with the growing bubble in China. 'We’re

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2011

I’ve had a lot of experience with online contests, both as a participant (winner) and working two reflection papers for the Case Foundation ‘s America’s Giving Challenge. NStreet Village : N Street Village is a community of empowerment and recovery for homeless and low-income women in Washington, D.C.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 15, 2010

engagejoe : Hmm…What about ‘using webby tools 2 organize ppl for impact on an array of issues, w/the goal of creating real world change?’ rootwork : @annanten To me the goal should be change, not growing one’s base. do they in themselves create behavioral change too. realize_ink : Q1.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 29, 2015

If we want to reflect the identities of our community, we’ve got to focus on changing that. Last year, our board and staff came together to develop a “theory of change” that connects the activities we do to the impact we seek. Let’s start with empowerment. Empowerment is the “individual” side of our theory of change.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 25, 2014

I first found about Facebook’s terrible news feed policy change when nonprofit leader Peter Campbell posted on Twitter about the Wired piece I Liked Everything I Saw on Facebook for Two Days. In the midst of a pivotal moment in patient engagement and empowerment, our microphone has been turned off. Here’s What It Did to Me.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

Empowerment for our participants comes from connecting to an inner wisdom that is often kept hidden from public view, but is a place of extraordinary innate strength and well being. Connecting personal wisdom to effect positive change is our goal. Tell us what you are doing to make positive change in your community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

It marked the start of a six month peer learning exchange where I, along with colleague Stephanie Rudat will work remotely with grantees as they implement an action learning project to put techniques into practice and facilitate organizational change from the inside out. organizational change, and technology. Program Design.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

Constituent Empowerment Honorable Mention: Sierra Club and American Cancer Society Winner: Children International Used TeamRaiser to recruit new sponsors and recuited 5,000 sponsors since 2005 and sponsored over 560 children. It is clear that this “village” is changing the world. Created a wall of 5,000 signers photos.

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Media Cause

JUNE 16, 2022

Color Of Change —Color Of Change is the nation’s largest online racial justice organization. The Legal Defense Fund (LDF) is America’s premier legal organization fighting for racial justice. . Whether you prefer to read, listen, or watch, there are an abundance of ways to educate yourself and change your way of thinking.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2011

While I faced a difficult decision culling winners from the forty focused initiatives described in the entries, I selected the following based on their innovative and courageous approaches to a variety of social issues, from new types of housing for the underserved, to animal welfare, to women’s empowerment. We’re the Safe America Foundation.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 2, 2007

Holly has now been out meeting with the International Labor Organization and thinking about different ways that you really help create empowerment for women who work in informal markets. We are not thinking about this alone. So that is like a rounding error.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 28, 2006

We brought a group of ten environmental justice lawyers from throughout North America to work in partnership with grassroots women leaders in Bolivia, with the focus on sustainable agriculture and food security issues. So our first exchange that we did with Global Exchange was called "Transformative Advocacy in Bolivia."

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Non Profit Quarterly

MARCH 2, 2022

Electronic transaction platforms like Amazon, Uber, Grubhub, and Airbnb have perhaps permanently changed the way that we live and work. The labor movement has usually consisted of workers negotiating with companies over wages and working conditions or pushing for social change. million on political lobbying, and another $1.8

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EveryAction

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

We believe change is possible in every community. The Gay & Lesbian Victory Fund's mission is to change the face and voice of America's politics and achieve equality for LGBT Americans by increasing the number of openly LGBT officials at all levels of government. NARAL Pro-Choice America. American Immigration Council.

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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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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 29, 2009

We were starting to build small circles within the local communities that are all doing really magnificent work in order to create change. But, if I get caught up in trying to change, then I'm coming at it from my fear, from my ego, and not from my faith. I'm not there to judge it. It can only lead to burn out. I just had it developed.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 29, 2006

Welcome to the Big Vision Podcast where we talk with individuals and organizations that are creating positive change. I think there is a challenge for all of us in our movements to change the world, to keep going and to stay inspired when we are confronted with so much misery and so many travesties and so.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 2, 2008

For them, that was a measure of change and a measure of impact. How do you know that you are making a difference or an impact; how do you measure that? The measurement of success was the annual report that we got from them three years after the signatures, which had originally been thumbprints, that now had signed signatures.

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