Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 3, 2011

The Day aims to raise awareness of disability issues with a focus on the rights of persons with disabilities and the benefits derived from their integration in the social, economic, cultural and political life of their communities. Of course, accessibility is right up Benetech’s alley and the focus of our Literacy program.

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Kindful

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

PADI AWARE Foundation. PADI AWARE Foundation. PADI AWARE Foundation is a publicly funded nonprofit whose mission is to drive local action for global ocean conservation. They invest in efforts led by those most affected by environmental injustice that ensure equitable environmental benefit. The Green Climate Fund.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 16, 2014

More and more of my time is spent around both raising money and raising awareness of how much more could be done with technology to increase social impact. Are you excited about technology benefiting the world? For example, Martus can now be configured in less than 10 minutes by anyone with basic digital literacy skills.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2012

The book covers five digital literacies – each starting with an illustration by Anthony Weeks that graphically communicates the key points. Some points that particularly resonated and that I have been working on myself are: Mindfulness is about becoming aware of how you direct your attention – both online and offline.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 14, 2021

There’s no reason why the same will not hold true for social benefit sector businesses. Thriving today requires a state of hyper-awareness and an ability to be agile. People are people. When their experience of the world changes, they adjust their behaviors accordingly. We’re in unusual times right now. It’s not business as usual.

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

The purpose of the conference is to expose future social sector leaders to a vibrant learning experience that promotes best practices, innovative thinking and awareness of the full scope of the sector. Whether you have a staff of one or 100, you will find benefit in taking time away to attend. Nonprofit Management. State/Local.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 24, 2010

Don’t Expect People to Pay: I’ve written before about my belief that social media users are great for spreading a message and awareness, but largely ineffective for raising large sums of money. We have nearly 1,000 people that have done this, including major celebrities like Alyssa Milano and Shannon Elizabeth.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2006

" Be aware of vendor-driven solutions. Documentation of your project is important and get it disseminated so other people can benefit from your knowledge. Technology literacy is important and in order gain literacy you need get people to put fingers to keyboard. What are you going to do with the technology?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2008

Congenital Heart Defects Awareness Day. A number of nonprofit organizations are promoting Valentine's Day giving opportunities, here's a few: A Day for Hearts is an opportunity to raise awareness about congenital heart defects, a lethal constellation of birth defects of the heart that affect millions of newborn infants and children worldwide.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Over the next three years, Symantec is investing $900,000 in Room to Read , an international nonprofit dedicated to promoting literacy and gender equality in the developing world. Education received approximately 50 percent of Symantec’s dollars. Read more about these efforts on Symantec’s Securing Information page.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

I discovered it because of a charity challenge they're running on Twitter to raise awareness of their book, plus raise some money to help Room To Read. The Cause: Room To Read a not-for-profit organization that transforms the lives of millions of children by focusing on literacy. x (Total Retweets).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2009

While there may be tremendous opportunity, your organization won't be able to reap the benefits if it is stuck in doing the same strategy year after year. Since then the Foundation has ventured out to many of the social sites, spreading awareness about our cause and connecting with supporters. I used a cli.gs

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

I couldn’t help but think about how important content curation skills, information literacy, and encouraging a movement around this as Clay Johnson suggests in his book, the Information Diet. What I mean is that I am focuses more on some inner awareness of when I’m just mindlessly browsing information or staring at the screen.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2006

While in the early early 1990's I was helping people figure out which dipswitches on their modem to push or write and send email using PINE, this later morphed into helping people learn how to build web pages or develop web literacy skills. And, now mid-2000 this has changed again. into gaining web social (networking) skills.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 15, 2008

We make a huge effort to disseminate our news locally via radio partnerships, and other satellite partnerships, so that the people in the communities we serve are benefiting from our news first. It was written in very scribbled Nepali, her literacy skills were incredibly rudimentary, but what she ended up writing was a piece of journalism.

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Here are some to consider: Art: Art auctions serve a valuable purpose because they don’t just raise funds, they also spread awareness and appreciation of the works being auctioned. One huge benefit of technology is that these are no longer cash-only events. Using a theme can make this a little easier.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

By coming up with an unconventional—and difficult or trying—way for participants to show their support, your nonprofit can raise a lot of awareness and dollars for your cause. Classes Nonprofit organizations often offer classes that cover a wide array of topics, from literacy and language skills to financial literacy and job training.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 20, 2006

And we've kind of created, working with researchers, a model that really shows the different ways these things are happening in different parts of the program so all the things that you need to set up a school garden in order to set the stage for all of these benefits. If you could tell them why they are important, what would you say?

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 20, 2015

CityCamp organizers set the tone for the day with this definition: "Civic Hacking is the awareness of a condition that is suboptimal in a neighborhood, community, or place and the perception of one's own ability to effect change on that condition. Here's what I learned. What Civic Hacking Really Means. The apps are incidental.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 26, 2008

FiftyCrows Foundation eschews these media politics and prioritizes social awareness by using arrestingly real, timely photographic images as a catalyst for education, cultural understanding and social action." Our mission is to strengthen the voice of activist artists - 'Artivists' - while raising public awareness for social global causes."

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 2, 2008

They wanted to create a literacy program for themselves because now there was a school where their children could go to school, but they felt embarrassed that they couldn't support their children because they themselves were illiterate. We should call them social benefit organizations." When did you talk about it recently?

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