Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 10, 2011

Graduate student Maria Georgakarakou, who is blind, gave us a rave review for the Read2Go app which allows those with print disabilities to listen to books in the DAISY audio format. Maria also noted that students like herself are finding more scholarly books on Bookshare which expands her ability to research.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 14, 2013

This week we learn about the Resilient Africa Network (RAN), which is helping African students use open data for disaster relief. RAN is establishing Resilience Innovation Labs within participating universities throughout Africa, coupled with online laboratories and a new online science library to help with its work.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 4, 2021

In addition, CCA has built a network of qualified vaccinators across the state in partnership with local boards of health, local providers, home health agencies, medical and nursing students, and emergency medical services.

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MAY 6, 2022

The Awesome Foundation is a global community advancing the interest of “awesome in the universe,” mostly through providing $1,000 micro-grants. They focus funding on organizations that work on financial literacy for elementary and high school students (established programs only). Brown Rudnick Center for Public Interest.

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Media Cause

JANUARY 26, 2024

A Boston University student told Input that photo dumps are a “personal scrapbook,” saying, “posting what I want takes stress and pressure out of posting on social media.” Everyone started posting “photo dumps,” something I credit YouTuber and Relatable Girly Emma Chamberlain as popularizing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2017

Our book tour starts at the end of January, so if you are in San Francisco, Oakland, Boston, NYC, or Washington, DC, please join us. I also taught a workshop for social startups at Singularity University here in Mountain, View on how to create a Happy Healthy Start Up Culture.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 26, 2020

IDSA focuses on supporting clinicians and providing guidelines and resources for the people and researchers on the frontlines, like Dr. Fauci and others working to find a cure, as well as universities that are hosting trials. How do we prepare for the tsunami of students who want to go into this as a profession?

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EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

The Alliance Management Institute (AMI) is the only national conference expressly designed to prepare 400+ college students for a career in the social sector. AFP / Boston, MA / Price varies. Cultivating Student Philanthropy. Cultivating Student Philanthropy. Nonprofit Leadership Alliance / Houston, TX / $250. Diversity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2008

ll be inviting all kinds of people, including designers, artists, young people, families, students and Tate staff, to share their ideas. online exhibit developed by the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology at the University of New Mexico and Ideum. The Boston Symphony has been doing ticket giveaway promotions.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 25, 2007

I have championed the recent Oakland Food Policy Assessment introduced by some amazing grad students at Cal, which lays out a very clear, thorough, and utterly achievable road map for food security in Oakland. Its general premise is to arrive at a point where 30% of Oakland's consumed agricultural products are grown locally.

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sgEngage

MAY 6, 2021

196 0s – Anti Vietnam War protests and the push for peace in the United States is well-known for the actions taken by University students and protesters, but also involved outspoken members of the business community. In the same year, the Global Reporting Initiative was founded in Boston. greenhouse gases (GHG)?emissions?in

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Here are some of their stories: Aleda Schaf fer A student at Cornell University’s Johnson Graduate School of Management, Aleda Schaffer has worked as an American Sign Language Interpreter in Washington, DC, Alaska and Boston. A recent graduate of Rice University, Lum is working on her PhD in statistics at Duke University.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 14, 2019

Participants: Boston College, Dartmouth College, Indiana University, Marquette University, Oklahoma State University, and University of Colorado – Boulder. Much of this was coordinating with student athletes, coaches and alumni athletes who acted as advocates.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 17, 2012

provides a 12-week afterschool program and 4-month paid apprenticeship wellness program for low-income high school students. Marquis Landon Cabrera | Foster Skills | Boston, MA Foster Skills provides emotional development and practical, transferable life skills programs for children and youth in foster care. ( @MarquisCabrera ) 14.

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Everyaction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

The Net Impact Conference is the premier gathering of students and professionals who are committed to making a lasting social and environmental impact now and for a lifetime. HubSpot / Boston, MA / Less than $1,000. University of Florida College of Communications & Journalism / Gainesville, FL / By invitation. State/Local.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2008

I graduated from Boston University in May where I majored in Public Relations. Tell me the story of how the organization was started Gradon Tripp is the founder and is Boston-area blogger who very active in the Boston social media scene. I am now just discovering what it is like not to have to go to school.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2009

Manny Hernandez who shared his fundraising secrets for Tubiabetes.com Amy Yu and Christine Lin from Asian Liver Center at Stanford University. Please share the book with Kathy and her students) Sue Anne Reed from. EMQ FamiliesFirst Lisa Colton from Darim , nonprofit that helps Jewish organizations.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 12, 2008

You hear them speak, or you read their book, or you listen to your podcast, and then you generally write to that person, or you go up to them, rush them at the end of a speech and say, "I'm a student, I want to get involved." I met with people like Erin Potts, the founder of the Students for a Free Tibet concert series.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

I started doing this back in 2007 , when we won our first big federal contract for Bookshare, to take it from 3,000 students back then to more than 350,000 students now. Student privacy. Carol’s social enterprise in Nairobi employs over 100 students working to proofread books for our Bookshare digital library.

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