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.

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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. This shift is already happening in major markets: Amazon.com now sells more digital books than print books.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 9, 2013

Together with our partners in the nonprofit, technology, government, academic and publishing sectors, we participate in new cultural and technological movements, deriving new knowledge that we apply for social gain. Digitization and globalization are giving rise to growing publishing markets that promise new business opportunities.

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Top Nonprofits

APRIL 20, 2022

For example, advocating for a law change may require the work of multiple governmental bodies, sign off by various elected officials, and also changing public perception — each of which could be an advocacy campaign in its own right. With proper planning, a digital advocacy campaign will help you: Spread your message faster to more people.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 22, 2024

For example, perhaps your idea for creating a nonprofit focused on raising funds for children fighting cancer started with one family’s need for support in a challenging time. What potential challenges or risks will the nonprofit face? Look into relevant laws regarding starting a nonprofit in your community.

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AccelEvents

JULY 28, 2021

The Coronavirus pandemic forced the 2020 version of Pulse Everywhere to change it up into a hybrid event, fit with both onsite and digital participants. This setup allowed the event to be hosted with a large audience while upholding physical distancing restrictions and government laws. .

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Although reports of the massacre appeared in the United States, Salvadoran army and government leaders denied them and, all too soon, El Mozote was forgotten. Being geeks, we thought of ways to address this challenge with technology. But, we still have to protect our users from attacks from many repressive governments around the world.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 8, 2010

Counterproposals have been made, governments have been engaging with rights holders, consumers and NGOs (or not!) Government delegation, as a next step possibility. It is narrower than the Treaty, and is not binding as a treaty would be (some call it “soft law” compared to the “hard law” of a treaty). Excludes video. •

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

The 36th Annual Nonprofit Organizations Institute will feature nationally recognized experts from private foundations, public charities, law, finance, and government discussing the latest tax, legislative and governance issues affecting nonprofit organizations. 15th Annual Nonprofit Governance Symposium. Jan 24 - 25.

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Forum One

APRIL 1, 2021

Our review of the application uncovered interesting facts about the founding history, challenges, missteps in designing for accessibility, and potential in the application’s future product mapping. Levels the digital divide. Data security & privacy law. Key benefits. More: Clubhouse’s full privacy policy. Time sensitivity.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Navigating a challenging economy, the rising cost of living, and staffing issues, many nonprofits are feeling the heat. Fundraisers have been through real challenges before.” A key tool in overcoming these challenges? If you feel a little unsteady about your nonprofit’s fundraising right now, you are not alone. But take heart.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 18, 2023

Navigating a challenging economy, the rising cost of living, and staffing issues, many nonprofits are feeling the heat. Fundraisers have been through real challenges before.” A key tool in overcoming these challenges? If you feel a little unsteady about your nonprofit’s fundraising right now, you are not alone. But take heart.

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Tech Soup

MAY 15, 2013

Some big news this week as President Obama further commits to opening up government data by signing an Executive Order. Open Government Data. Landmark Steps to Liberate Open Data President Obama has signed an Executive Order to make government data more accessible to the public and entrepreneurs. Nonprofit Data.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 9, 2018

However, as a technology, printed books come with serious challenges for some communities (like blind people) that technology can unlock. Today, more than 15 years after the creation of Bookshare, we’re now the largest digital library dedicated to serving people with disabilities. Love of the print book. It made me who I am.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2009

who gave the keynote speech at UC Berkeley’s conference on law, ethics and technology, “ Social Networks: Friends or Foes? ,” complaints of hijacked accounts increased by one-third from 2007 to 2008. While the overwhelming consensus was that such behavior isn’t right, there are few laws on the books to address these scenarios.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 17, 2015

On October 6, 2015, join TechSoup, CIVICUS, the International Center for Not-for-Profit Law, FHI 360, and +SocialGood for a deeper dive into the threats that civil society faces. FHI 360 strengthens the leadership capacity of national and community organizations and increases the transparency of government agencies. spanhidden

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2011

And the circumstances under which user data is provided to governments, or human rights information and accounts are taken down from services are not always transparent. Access , the organizers of RightsCon, who work for digital freedom worldwide, consciously pitched this not as a human rights NGO conference.

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Media Cause

APRIL 13, 2023

A Holistic Digital Marketing View on the State of TikTok As an agency with a wide range of services, we chose to look at this not just from a social media perspective but talk to our specialists across the agency to weigh in on the topic. It has been a platform that has challenged how we think about content strategy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 11, 2018

The Pew Research Center has released a research report called “ The Future of Digital Life and Well-Being.” ” Pew interviewed technology experts and scholars (including me) about the benefits and drawbacks of our digital lives. Positive Personal Impact of Digital. 11, 2017, and Jan. Glorious connectedness.

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EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

12th Annual Nonprofit Governance Symposium. 12th Annual Nonprofit Governance Symposium. We have gathered an outstanding group of field experts to teach how to build and sustain this kind of governance. Governance / @usdsoles. Governance. Digital Strategy Innovation Summit. Digital Strategy Innovation Summit.

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sgEngage

MAY 23, 2024

Initiatives like the American Rescue Plan, the Bipartisan Infrastructure Act, the CHIPS and Science Act, and other pass-through funding to states and local governments have spurred a surge in nonprofits seeking federal funding. In the last five years, nonprofits have witnessed a significant upswing in the availability of federal funding.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 18, 2023

Government funding and donor support. What are their needs and challenges? This SWOT analysis will help you identify the key challenges and opportunities facing your organization, and will serve as the foundation for your business plan. Identify potential challenges for your nonprofit and develop strategies for addressing them.

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NonProfit Hub

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Vu’s passion to make the world better, combined with a low score on the Law School Admission Test, drove him into the field of nonprofit work, where he learned that we should take the work seriously, but not ourselves. She helps find a positive a ngle to most any fundraising challenge. ignitedfundraising.com.

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Cloud 4 Good

MARCH 4, 2022

Digital Managed Services Consultants are experienced technology professionals who lead Salesforce Marketing Cloud and/or Pardot support projects with a variety of nonprofit and higher education organizations. The post Managed Services Consultant – Digital in the USA or Canada appeared first on Cloud for Good.

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CauseVox

OCTOBER 11, 2021

The annual 24-hour giving day, created to counter the retail-heavy push that begins with Black Friday, has thousands of nonprofits, businesses, city governments, and other institutions participating in a drive to highlight generosity and partnership for good. billion was donated to US based nonprofits, a 25% increase from 2019.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

One of their main challenges is that they do not have adequate access to educational materials that are necessary to learn and succeed in school. Accessible ebooks and Bookshare have helped sixth grader Kevin Leong overcome his reading challenges. The good news is that major changes in technology are reforming education.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JULY 30, 2021

Tech Against Trafficking was born out of a meeting at Wilton Park which brought together 60 stakeholders from key sectors — including policy makers, law enforcement, business, civil society, and academia — for an expert exchange on the creative uses of digital technology in tackling modern slavery.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 18, 2008

The challenge is to find the way to pull those ideas out. Our participants are like visitors--interested, ready to engage, ready to rise to the challenge. I can talk to an artist about her digital storytelling piece while watching two engineers experiment with a sensor-rich dance floor.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2016

Sally and Roger's book challenged me to do just that. By the time of Bookshare’s creation in 2001, new and better XML digital book formats had been developed. Third, we pioneered a novel interpretation of the copyright exception for serving people with disabilities that is built into the basic law of the United States.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2014

Data theft, cyberattacks, and government surveillance are a growing fact of digital life, and it looks like 2015 will only be more of the same. Digital Refugees. He recommends the Oakland-based charity Digital Detox and perhaps a stay at Campgrounded in the California redwoods. Become a digital refugee.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

So the reason we do the seminar and I wrote this book on questions is because my strong belief is, this is a methodology of approaching all kinds of fundraising, whether it’s major donors, direct mail, face to face, on the street, your digital work. . In direct mail and digital fundraising, you can often base it on money targets, $82.57

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Bloomerang

APRIL 16, 2021

I often think of engagement as crossing over all of these areas, from fundraising to your programs to, you know, community-based advocacy, government relations. Or maybe even policy makers who have influence over government, you know, budgets, you know, for the CDC or things like that. Who could you engage with?

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Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

JUNE 11, 2020

As part of their commitment to reach net-zero emissions by 2050, the UK government need to plant 30,000 hectares a yea r, so the hard work is only going to increase for the Woodland Trust. They work hard, and the product shows. Over the last year, Woodland Trust planted 50% of the total hectares planted that year. Sierra Club.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

Among other things, next year marks the 225 th anniversary of the Constitutional Convention where our democratic governing system was created. At the close of the convention, Benjamin Franklin was reportedly asked what kind of government had been created. His reply: “ A republic – if you can keep it. ”.

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M+R

AUGUST 25, 2021

When looking at the data, coverage of white supremacy tells a story that informs many of the challenges we’re confronting right now—from the Trump insurrection and his ongoing promotion of the Big Lie, to fear mongering from right-wing media outlets and politicians over critical race theory.

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Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

JUNE 11, 2020

As part of their commitment to reach net-zero emissions by 2050, the UK government need to plant 30,000 hectares a yea r, so the hard work is only going to increase for the Woodland Trust. They work hard, and the product shows. Over the last year, Woodland Trust planted 50% of the total hectares planted that year. Sierra Club.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 30, 2007

I knew that was going to be me very soon -- and a blog, in many ways, is like a digital version of that envelope. In 1995, I'm giving you my life story; I took a class called Challenging White Supremacy. Louis, Missouri, and I was working for an environmental law clinic as a consultant. Because you're just sending links.

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