sgEngage

OCTOBER 9, 2023

For evaluation as a field, the notion of equity challenges what practitioners accept as valid, rigorous, and objective. Co-development led to conceptualization of participation of people with disabilities in advocacy for legislative, policy and government program change as an impact—in and of itself—regardless of outcome.

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

In addition, the interdependence between nonprofits, corporations and governments will continue to intensify during the 21st century. They can be from business, government and civil society, which combine the competencies of each, to resolve a specified problem or challenge. In Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, James E.

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 16, 2020

As nonprofits attempt to tackle some of our communities' most difficult problems; funders, government agencies and the general public are actively calling for accountability, transparency and proof that a program is producing change. Illustration by Jocelyn Ruiz. This call spurred the increasing demand for program evaluation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 7, 2012

And community organizations can use data to illuminate the challenges they face. If you know of or have examples of data literacy curriculum for nonprofits or data empowerment for community organization, let me know in the comments.

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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. It includes pressuring national governments to enforce existing accessibility laws. One of the biggest issues is digital rights management.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Have you interacted with your local government, or spoken to your peers about their programs? Boston University provides in-kind space to host professional development forums, EVERFI supplies financial literacy coursework, and Boston’s Center for Teen Empowerment adds expertise in the youth development space.

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Tech Soup

JULY 8, 2011

Guardian’s ACTIVATE is an annual conference that aims to bring together leaders in media, government and technology to a ctivatedly. discuss approaches to addressing nagging challenges of the current. the opportunity it gave me to hear leaders in the sector discuss the challenges faced at the grassroots level; the.

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ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 18, 2018

I saw myself rising to each new challenge. This creates a self-sustaining cycle of empowerment, which is critical to ending the disconnection and disempowerment that prevent individuals from living the life they are worthy and capable of. Through being tested, my confidence grew.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2017

The challenges: Explosion of online media channels. Empowerment. Global trust in government, media, business and NGOs has fallen to its lowest levels ever. The moderator, Marcelo Jamberio, organized a set of questions that other Marcelo and I responded to with slides and audience interaction. A multi-screen world. Aspiration.

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Actually, 18% of nonprofits cite having a small staff (or staff transitions) as the greatest challenge they encounter. . Your staff is expected to be more efficient, your organization more productive, and your mission more manageable all while your piggy bank is light. One such way is through professional development programs. .

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

We’ve also taken steps to holistically integrate Purpose at PIMCO with the goals of PIMCO’s Inclusion, Diversity and Culture teams and environmental, social, and governance philosophy within our Corporate Responsibility department. Furthermore, in 2019 we helped launch a mobile food pantry that will seek to support hard-to-reach communities.

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Deborah Elizabeth Finn

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

It is really inspiring to see philanthropic and nonprofit professional engaging in public conversations about these challenges, and even more inspiring to see them taking action to create positive changes. The Challenge of Nonprofit Leadership: Navigating a Perilous Moment. Community engagement governance.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 23, 2016

A host of cultural, economic, social and infrastructural barriers keep women locked out from the empowerment potential of Internet access. We launched a global crowdsourcing campaign to collect homegrown solutions and ideas to spread digital empowerment. The women I work with every day are ready.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 9, 2018

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. However, as a technology, printed books come with serious challenges for some communities (like blind people) that technology can unlock.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2011

I’ve had a lot of experience with online contests, both as a participant (winner) and working two reflection papers for the Case Foundation ‘s America’s Giving Challenge. NStreet Village : N Street Village is a community of empowerment and recovery for homeless and low-income women in Washington, D.C.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

CON: can feel disconnected from the primary governance of the museum or can feel like a second-class board overall. Our topics are broad, including Creative Spaces, Youth Empowerment, and Economic Opportunity. Also, can form factions of different community boards representing different groups (i.e.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 2, 2007

Read More » Collaboration for Funders: Understanding the Challenges Joe Anderson in Influence 1 Jul 2010 This is part two of a series on online collaboration for grantmakers. We had a great discussion about how government agencies are using social media, and how the research community can support their efforts.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

The other thing is that a lot of inner cities are part of empowerment zones or enterprise zones where companies that are at a certain scale and profitable can benefit from tax credits, both from the payroll side, if you hire from the inner city, but also if you locate in the enterprise zones. That is our inherent challenge.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MARCH 8, 2022

Women and girls in particular have felt the impacts of a never-ending global health pandemic, conflict and displacement, and authoritarian government takeovers, to name a few. Women and girls will, once again, lose access to the benefits of sport. Credit: GOLEES.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 8, 2008

Real Time Representation - How Social Media is Changing the Face of Government submitted by Erica O'Grady 2008 marked the year of the first Twitter from inside the Oval Office. Come for some quick presentations from some of the hottest tech non-profits and a discussion about the perks, achievements and challenges you can look forward to.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 12, 2022

Governments should embrace internationally recognised fundamental rights at work including ending forced labour, discrimination at work, respecting workers’ right to freely choose representation and ensuring safe and healthy working conditions. Making Decent Work a Reality for Adults and Youth. Achieving Universal Access to Social Protection.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 25, 2007

In two months, 10,000 visitors sent postcards (and fortuitiously, the government acted in favor of protection). The museum display included information about the issue, a countdown clock to the government's decision, and a running tally of postcards submitted to date. It depends.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

For nonprofit data, creating this language is becoming a self-organizing necessity in the same way that the Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESGs) criteria are for the corporate world. Enter the Nonprofit Common Data Model (CDM) , originally stewarded by Microsoft as a founding creator and ongoing community sponsor.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 25, 2008

BB: What excites you the most about the work that the Center is doing, and its future, and then, what are some of the biggest challenges that you are facing? AD: I think what excites me the most are also probably some of our challenges, exciting challenges. That is the part that I feel very, very excited and challenged by.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 17, 2015

In Europe, the government has traditionally been the primary supporter of culture, a model very different to ours in the US. However, the European model is becoming unsustainable as government sources are reducing their funding, and organizations are turning to corporate, foundation, and individual sources for support.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 7, 2015

In Europe, the government has traditionally been the primary supporter of culture, a model very different to ours in the US. However, the European model is becoming unsustainable as government sources are reducing their funding, and organizations are turning to corporate, foundation, and individual sources for support.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

Addressing Complex Challenges. In other words, it's an amazing opportunity to support the critical work of organizations — not just here in the US — but around the globe in places where civil societies are struggling to address complex, challenging issues.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 2, 2007

One of the biggest challenges has been, when you think about fair trade coffee or fair trade tea, those are items that are commodity pricing; so when you buy or sell a pound of fair trade coffee, you are really buying it or selling it based on a market price, and then the fair trade price is X percent above that and a social premium.

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Bloomerang

MAY 14, 2021

I’ll say at the beginning of the pandemic, there were so many stories of friends and family who were being like go, that there was a culture of uncertainty and through this whole last year, there’s been a period of navigating through uncertainty, which I think is challenging overall.

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EveryAction

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

The last few days have been equal parts terrifying, challenging, and complicated. Lambda Legal does not charge clients for legal representation or advocacy, and receives no government funding - it depends on contributions from supporters around the country. At EveryAction, we live and work by the motto "Build the World You Want."

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 28, 2007

And, at a time when the international women's movement is facing challenges, it would be great to have a reminder that good news is going on, that good work is being done, that progress is happening. Britt Bravo: In so many of the groups you profiled, the women were using the arts for education, empowerment, or healing.

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