Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 28, 2014

I just returned from a spectacular week at this year’s TED conference in Vancouver, Canada. His innovation is the PEEK software tool : a low-cost smartphone ophthalmic system that delivers comprehensive eye examinations in the developing world, to those who need it most. Of course, we’d have to focus on local language content.

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Qgiv

APRIL 21, 2023

The AFP Exchange hosted vendors from all facets of fundraising, donor management systems, consultants, email systems, and more. Attendees had the opportunity to hear from Misty Copeland and Birgit Smith Burton, founder of AADO and the first African American woman to be voted chair of the AFP Global Board.

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Donors from 100 different countries gave to Neon One users this year—GivingTuesday really is a global movement of generosity! What you can learn : Research reveals that people assume gifts made to local nonprofits have more of an impact than gifts made to organizations further away. When Do Donors Give?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

The Marrakesh Treaty was designed to address the biggest remaining obstacle: the existing system of providing books to society did not meet the needs of people with disabilities. As Bookshare, we believe we can find money to extend the availability of our collection globally to the poor. Richer countries like the U.S.,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2009

The system we have designed addresses how to capture, analyze and assess what matters. First of of all, there is the the appearance of a new and way-out idea that violates the status quo – such as say Local Food – the 100 mile diet. The idea itself is tested by the immune system of the wider community.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

Once upon a time, just a little more than a century ago, every factory that wanted to run its systems on electricity had to build its own electrical generating system. Most of us now host all of our applications and our data and our email systems documents/spreadsheets, etc. Lucy Bernholz, Blueprint R+D.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

Once upon a time, just a little more than a century ago, every factory that wanted to run its systems on electricity had to build its own electrical generating system. Most of us now host all of our applications and our data and our email systems documents/spreadsheets, etc. Lucy Bernholz, Blueprint R+D.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 28, 2006

She is the co-founder and co-director of Women's Global Green Action Network , a nonprofit that cultivates global partnerships of grassroots women environmental leaders by providing access to communication tools, support services and networking capabilities. Below is a transcript of an interview with her from the Big Vision Podcast.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

This virtual desktop solution connects to a nonprofit or school’s existing computer system very quickly and allows older computers to run Windows 7 and Windows applications as well as new PCs. According TechSoup’s Global NGO Cloud Survey , cloud storage and back-up is one of the most useful cloud technologies out there.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 5, 2011

I eventually stumbled on the acronym DARA: If you can't remember DARA, just think of Dara Westling , vice president of development at TechSoup Global. Disaster Planning and Recovery Toolkit (See Chapter 2, "Documentation and Your Master Key," and Chapter 3, "Remote and Local Backup." She's great.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 5, 2011

I eventually stumbled on the acronym DARA: If you can't remember DARA, just think of Dara Westling , vice president of development at TechSoup Global. Disaster Planning and Recovery Toolkit (See Chapter 2, "Documentation and Your Master Key," and Chapter 3, "Remote and Local Backup." She's great.

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EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

Its 45 workshops, seminars and lectures explore internal and external strategies, systems, methods, best practices and successful examples. and discover how to reach your audiences more directly through social and digital media, while still landing placements through the national press or your local newspapers and broadcast stations.

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Kindful

MARCH 5, 2021

Global Fund for Women. Wallace Global Fund. Areas served: US & Canada. Activities can be local, regional, or, in some instances, statewide. By funding these nonprofits in their nascent stages, they help them to test their programs and initiatives, and scale them for maximum impact in their local communities.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 7, 2022

Global Fund for Women. Wallace Global Fund. Areas served: US & Canada. Activities can be local, regional, or, in some instances, statewide. By funding these nonprofits in their nascent stages, they help them to test their programs and initiatives, and scale them for maximum impact in their local communities.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

and we work with dozens of clients in Canada, States on an annual basis, and we look at all sorts of other. The other thing that I think is happening globally is that there’s greater economic inequality. So Fraser Green, great fundraiser in Canada who was working for an organization, left it. But essentially. ” .

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 2, 2013

national recycling system or law, so in some Midwestern, western and southern states, recyclers tend to charge something to properly dispose of IT discards. This is collaboration between Dell and Goodwill to accept anything with a battery or plug at no cost in most states and also Eastern Canada. There is, as yet, no U.S.

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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

Are you using systems that require lots of personalization that could be automated? From 2018 - 2020, she served as the Director of Communications for the Public Relations Society of America's local Hoosier chapter. And our conference, The Rooted Retreat is in two short weeks, and you can just head over to therootedretreat.com.

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Care2

APRIL 16, 2008

Biggest regret is obvious - I never made it to Web of Change (an annual event held in BC, Canada), and I am sure that was a big mistake. I think the industry has moved significantly in the right direction, but it’s still difficult to get databases and software systems to talk to each other. Also, any regrets -- major or minor?

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Care2

MARCH 4, 2008

Biggest regret is obvious - I never made it to Web of Change (an annual event held in BC, Canada), and I am sure that was a big mistake. I think the industry has moved significantly in the right direction, but it’s still difficult to get databases and software systems to talk to each other. Also, any regrets -- major or minor?

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 10, 2022

Back in 1995, in the early days of the internet, a San Francisco innovator named Craig Newmark started a small email distribution list for friends, highlighting local events across the Bay Area. Amazon, born in 1995 as an online bookstore, grew by the 2000s to become the largest global e-commerce platform company in existence.

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