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Tech Awards: An Annual Showcase of Challenges and Hope

Tech Soup

The Tech Awards , an annual event that honors projects which use "technology to significantly improve human conditions," just unveiled their laureates for this year. Rickshaw Bank provides a lease-to-own model for their redesigned rickshaws, and “back-end support” like insurance and licensing.

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BYU ESR conference on Social Entrepreneurship

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

I just got back form the Economic Self-Reliance Conference at Brigham Young University in Utah. This practice was especially awarded at the ESR conference. The Bookshare team is excited because we can take these books and do all the accessibility work because they are under an open license! I think they are onto something.

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Going to Davos to Redesign the Planet

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Universities and government labs encouraging their technology transfer offices to make social licenses of new technology. Like companies, university tech transfer offices are encouraged solely to find commercially valuable applications of inventions. We need university leaders incented to value the social applications equally.

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How Companies Succeed By Engaging Radically With Society

Eric Jacobsen Blog

For some companies who have failed to build up a reservoir of societal goodwill over time, breaking their bond of trust with society might even mean losing their license to operate. We saw the same thing happen with Enron, which won every CSR award going the same year they caused the biggest bankruptcy scandal in American history.

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22 Years Ago…

Tech Soup

It is universally perceived as grim stuff. Remember, back then Microsoft Office Suite came in a box with licenses, and each package contained a. Award" from the Nonprofit Technology Enterprise Network (NTEN) and. In this story, we are in year two of getting to. First, no one in the nonprofit world, at least back then, is.

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Nonprofit Technology News: The Demise of Facebook Causes and Cloud Storage for Charities

Tech Soup

There is also your new classification compliments of the BRIDGE Project, and the first universal software for micro finance, another free cloud service. The charity pricing on it is is free for up to ten licenses with as much as a 75% discount per seat above that. Larger nonprofits can get additional licenses at half off.

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Training Board Members As Brand Champions on Social and Beyond

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

That seems like a silly thing to say, but I get to take creative license often. Student-led grant committee program with University of Central Florida. To sum it all up, and to make it a little fun, I awarded four board members with social media awards for different ways they’ve already been supporting the Foundation online.