Forum One

MARCH 8, 2021

This year’s theme is #ChooseToChallenge because a challenged world is an alert world. Individually, we’re all responsible for our own thoughts and actions, but we can choose to challenge and call out gender bias and inequity. Connecting women to change the face of political leadership.

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Blue Avocado

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Having been the only one in my business school class who chose a career in the nonprofit sector, I was able to use my MBA training to lead change and turnarounds. In the process, I was exposed to a number of organizations whose boards struggled with a variety of issues. After five years, we finally balanced the budget.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 19, 2016

Around the world, organizations face unique challenges when mobilizing their constituents and growing online communities, whether for a cause, an issue, an organization's mission, or a combination thereof. What's the balance between innovation and resistance to change when choosing platforms? plus_socialgood.

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Candid

JULY 2, 2021

Announced at the Generation Equality Forum convened by UN Women and co-hosted by the governments of Mexico and France, the Gates Foundation's commitment will focus on three areas: women's economic empowerment, health and family planning, and leadership. Now is the chance to reignite a movement and deliver real change.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 28, 2022

This unique annual gathering brings together political, business, civil society, and media leaders to discuss big ideas and challenges. Whether campaigning for the future of our planet, directing documentaries, or creating content that spotlights global issues, social empowerment and environmental education are at the core of Jack’s work.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 15, 2014

This week, my colleague Emily Hope Dobkin has a beautiful guest post on the Incluseum blog about the Subjects to Change teen program that Emily runs at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. Subjects to Change is an unusual museum program in that it explicitly focuses on empowering teens as community leaders.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Taproot connects nonprofits and other social change organizations with skilled volunteers sharing their expertise pro bono. But, as you know, things have continued to change as crisis has layered on top of crisis. Since the shift to virtual, how has volunteering changed? Lindsay Gruber (LG): So much, and in so many ways.

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Care2

OCTOBER 29, 2012

Frequently, the best innovative solutions to community challenges are those that creatively combine ideas from multiple disciplines. Cristi Hegranes, Global Press Institute – Global Press Institute (GPI) advances both responsible global journalism and community empowerment by offering journalism training to women around the world.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 18, 2017

I dug into the link between the wider theories of capacity development and building strong, resilient nonprofit organizations capable of achieving impact in their communities and on the issues they tackle every day. In all our research, we found 3 challenges to making sense of the evidence: Capacity Building Divorced from Results.

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Tech Soup

MAY 28, 2013

That's what the Digital Storytelling Challenge seeks to accomplish every year. Congratulations to all of these award winners, and collective gratitude to all the participants in this year’s digital storytelling challenge. Again, congratulations to all of the winners and participants of this year's challenge!

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NonProfit Hub

MARCH 2, 2021

Cause Camp’s goal is to leave you informed and inspired, ready to take on any challenge. Maryanne Dersch specializes in helping nonprofit leaders increase their influence and be the change agents they have always wanted to be without feeling rejected, ineffective, or pushy. It’s fundamentally changed the landscape.”

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Deborah Elizabeth Finn

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Grant makers and nonprofit professionals are now talking openly about some very painful (and inter-related) issues in philanthropy, such as. Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World. Social Change Won’t Happen Unless Philanthropy Gives More Power to Grassroots Leaders. Philanthropy for change, not charity.

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NTEN

AUGUST 16, 2011

By Jeff Ramos, Community and Content Manager, Games for Change. For the first time, this year's Games for Change Festival created an opportunity for producers of games in development to get live feedback from leading game designers, educators, and funders on the main stage. BOTTOM LINE & FUNDING. JURY FEEDBACK.

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Global Giving

APRIL 25, 2020

The chatter is everywhere, and it can be challenging for organizations, especially those that tend to have fewer technical resources on staff, to know how these new tools might help (or hinder) their work. This can be a challenging and time-consuming process and requires constant attention to maintain your model over time. LEARN MORE.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 22, 2019

Rusty Morgen Stahl, in an article examining research on nonprofit hiring strategies, wrote for The Foundation Review, “It is reasonable to ask what has been done to tackle the talent challenge. It is apparent that the nonprofit sector is going through a time of difficulties and change when it comes to recruiting and retaining employees.

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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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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

This last November, I had the honor of giving a plenary talk at the Eighth General Assembly of the World Blind Union ( WBU ), in which I addressed these opportunities and the challenges ahead. One of the biggest issues is digital rights management. The November 2012 General Assembly took place in Bangkok, Thailand.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 1, 2015

Other CSR teams promote programs to address a huge range of social issues. It's an international community where digital innovators, thought leaders, social entrepreneurs, changemakers, and global citizens come together to share world-changing ideas and catalyze action. plus_socialgood. UN relations. unfoundation. spanhidden

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Everyaction

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

Created in 1998, the United Nations Foundation links the United Nations' work with others around the world, helping the UN address a range of global issues, including climate change, global health, women’s empowerment, peace and security, poverty eradication, and more.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Youth unemployment was a critical issue for the city at that time – an issue that aligned with John Hancock’s business goals of providing meaningful job opportunities to young people in the community as well as helping them to be better prepared to enter the workforce. How did these groups come together?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2017

The challenges: Explosion of online media channels. Some things have not changed: Time and attention are finite. I gave the example of charity:water that tells the story about how clean drinking water can change people’s lives in development country. Empowerment. A multi-screen world. Stories are social.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 10, 2016

The royalties that I earn from my books have been donated to nonprofits to support women’s and girl’s empowerment work and given this past week, I am all the more convinced of the need to support such programs. I am honored to be an advisor to WAKE, whose mission is to amplify the work of women leading change globally.

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Tech Soup

MAY 7, 2014

There, she builds technology that connects local communities to resources that help them solve problems and impact issues. Caravan Studios, a division of TechSoup Global, entered its app SafeNight into the ReImagine: Opportunity Challenge. But even more important, it is enough for us learn, to collaborate, and to make change.

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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. We believe that hunger (Goal 2) and gender equality (Goal 5) are fundamental issues critical to human development and sustainable worldwide economic growth.

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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. Specific goals help focus.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 9, 2018

I believe in the power of books to change the world. Literacy and access to knowledge underpins just about every social good, from education, to economic development, to health, to women’s empowerment, democracy and respect for human rights. Consider the issues with printed books. It made me who I am.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 4, 2016

Caravan Studios , a division of TechSoup, hosted a breakfast in San Francisco's Chinatown neighborhood for nonprofits, app developers, and anyone interested in changing the world for the better. Focusing in on Local Issues. Tackling Global Issues. Open Data San Francisco. Martus: Encryption for Human Rights. Image 2: Concrn.

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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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NTEN

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

Discover how the power of social sharing can shine a light on a serious issue and poke fun at the inanity of discrimination. If we really want to unleash the full power of social networks and online fundraising to advance change, we need to do more. Data is becoming more and more transparent and that is changing the world.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 28, 2016

It is the story of the person’s condition and being challenged—yet at the same time not able to seek the opportunity that should be afforded to them, and the potential ahead of them. The behavior of people is hard to change and can take time – usually more time than you’d like. Feature real people.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2016

They wanted to help museums and galleries across the UK make significant, sustained changes in the ways they engage community partners and visitors as participants in their work. In its first five years, Our Museum yielded real change at twelve diverse UK organizations. Most major change doesn't happen when things are going well.

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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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Saleforce Nonprofit

MARCH 8, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic is disproportionately affecting women and girls around the world, which threatens the gains made in the past decades in advancing women’s economic empowerment, health, rights, and safety. The post Break the Bias: Changing the Game for Girls & Women appeared first on Salesforce.org.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 4, 2015

I feel lucky to be a small part of that change. That said, there are a couple big things I got wrong in the book - or at least, that I''ve changed my perspective on since writing it. When you seriously value the diverse experience and knowledge of community members, you challenge the traditional assignment of knowledge authority.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

Instead, we wanted a collection of leaders, highly networked in different parts of our County, with their fingers on the pulses of significant community issues and activities. We worked with C3ers at the kickoff workshop to map the issues and communities of greatest interest and connection.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 3, 2007

In a time when our world's challenges can feel overwhelming, and there are 1.4 In a time when our world's challenges can feel overwhelming, and there are 1.4 Given the quantity of organizations, and the enormity of the issues we're faced with today, five qualities are important when designing an action: 1. Make it simple.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 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. We are working very closely with V.S. Anupam Shukla and Ms.

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