Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

They started WAKE after working together for 15 years designing and leading global programs at the intersection of technology, civil society and women’s empowerment. It is always challenge to use participatory techniques when your participants are not native English speakers and you don’t speak the language.

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Qgiv

MARCH 1, 2023

The commission selected the week of March 8th for their celebration to correspond with International Women’s Day. Women First International Fund The Women First International Fund strives to provide long-term support through grants to small and emerging organizations working to address gender equity issues in their own communities.

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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. She has spent almost thirty years working in the nonprofit world helping organizations communicate more effectively internally and externally. ” CIERRA SELBY : Kickstart Your Organization’s Internal Communication Strategy.

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Everyaction

JUNE 20, 2018

Refugees International According to. Refugees International ’s website, there are currently over 65 million people across the world who are displaced by war, conflict and persecution, and tens of millions more who have been displaced by climate events and natural disasters.

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Twenty Hats

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

So I think, in many ways, for as often as everybody complains about technology and all the challenges, I think this past year could have gone very differently if we didn’t have these platforms.” — Volunteer manager embracing technology in Ohio. “None of us were ready for this. What a year it’s been. But for some, it opened doors.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MARCH 30, 2022

While many changes have been positive, others have been more challenging for both leaders and employees. In the trends report, 85% of those surveyed said staff retention will continue to be or increasingly become a challenge. Nonprofits around the world are still figuring out what the workplaces of the future will look like.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 18, 2017

In all our research, we found 3 challenges to making sense of the evidence: Capacity Building Divorced from Results. The Forgotten Roots of Capacity Development in the Movement for Ownership and Empowerment. Few were accompanied by a strong statement about commitment to process that prioritizes ownership and empowerment.

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

They can be from business, government and civil society, which combine the competencies of each, to resolve a specified problem or challenge. One noted example is that of ChildFund International benefiting from its relationship with the for-profit organization TOMs shoes. “

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Note from Beth: During the Mashable Social Good Summit earlier this week, I ran into Akhtar Badshah from Microsoft with colleagues who were on a panel to discuss the challenges facing youth today or the “opportunity divide.” Peter Shiras joined us from another great youth organization, the International Youth Foundation (IYF).

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Evaluation Capacity = ability to do and use evaluations The key to achieving more effective evaluation and overcoming these challenges is evaluation capacity building (ECB). By following these steps, your organization can replace poor capacity with self-sufficiency, self-determination, and empowerment.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 1, 2015

TechSoup is an international network of more than 60 NGOs that leverages technology to build nonprofit capacity and help solve social problems locally and globally. How can non-tech CSR teams better use technology and innovate in their own missions? What CSR projects have had the biggest impact? More About Our Participants. plus_socialgood.

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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. WBU is the global organization representing the estimated 285 million people worldwide with vision impairments.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2017

The last time I shared a plenary stage with Marcelo Iniarra was in 2014 at the International Fundraising Congress where he rode a bicycle on stage! The challenges: Explosion of online media channels. Empowerment. The official title of the session was “Donor Engagement in An Age of Complexity.” A multi-screen world.

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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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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 15, 2014

While art, history, creativity, and culture are the vehicles for that empowerment, the teens involved spend a lot of their time with activists, civic leaders, and social psychologists. It''s about empowerment and community leadership through art and history. Scale is still a challenge for co-creative work.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

TD Bank has an internal learning hub that aims to help employees learn more about community issues and the non-profits who work on them. One challenge I foresee for companies is that tracking, measuring, and evaluating will get more complex but not insurmountable. In your opinion, what does the future look like for volunteering?

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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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Tech Soup

JULY 8, 2011

This was first posted on the GuideStar International blog. 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. by Dinesh Venkateswaran, Manager - Global Data Acquisitions, TechSoup Global.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

I love this stuff because, to me, data done right is empowerment. BI requires a level of internal transparency that many managers may find uncomfortable in a paradigm where she who controls the spreadsheet controls the perception. I asked some folks on Twitter today if they had a BI strategy and what their biggest challenges were.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 29, 2015

We think about this redefinition of affinity not just in terms of our programming but our internal structures as well. HOW (slides 24-42) There are three “tracks” to our theory of change: individual empowerment, social bonding, and social bridging. Let’s start with empowerment. We're a place you can work off your traffic ticket.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

The targets need to be linked like so: --> Jump to events in North America , or go international with events in. Atrisco, New Mexico: Working Group and Help Desk: Bring Your Projects and Tech Challenges. Mahikeng, South Africa: Rural Tech Empowerment. The link need to be like so: Africa. Asia and Pacific Rim. Europe and UK.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

Our topics are broad, including Creative Spaces, Youth Empowerment, and Economic Opportunity. We''re working on the internal and external language, always trying to be as clear and concrete as possible. 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

FEBRUARY 8, 2007

"Many people imagine international health as this fashionable, sexy, and fun job. What is the biggest challenge of your work? The biggest challenge is definitely the fact that an “NGO” in Mali is seen as a “waritigi” (money owner). Many people imagine international health as this fashionable, sexy, and fun job.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 19, 2009

Erickson founded FORGE (Facilitating Opportunities for Refugee Growth and Empowerment) in 2003 when she was a 20 year-old junior studying public policy at Stanford University. We bring communities together to identify their top problems, needs, and priorities, and solve them internally.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

Grantees will engage in peer discussions about integrating social media effectively into their communications strategies and will learn from each other – from challenges and missteps as much as from accomplishments and wins – so success means organizations sharing both. Grantees Implement A Modest and Realistic Action Learning Pilot.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 6, 2016

One of the nonprofits that inspires me locally here in Santa Cruz is a youth empowerment and food justice organization called "Food, What!?" After offering up these four keys, Doron energizes the classroom with a challenge. The recruitment phase is just the start of FoodWhat’s relevance challenge. Stand out in some way.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 8, 2008

With a culture of open source designs, Instructables, wikis, and blogs, we can start an international movement. 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. We need to hack the model for accessibility tools!

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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.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 12, 2022

Increasing Financing and International Cooperation. It is a complex and sadly, deeply rooted development challenge. Right now there are six steps that can be taken to end child labor and to ensure a brighter, more fulfilling future for all countries. Making Decent Work a Reality for Adults and Youth.

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Qgiv

JUNE 12, 2023

When done poorly, they can become sources of confusion for both internal and external audiences. This list is ideally sorted into areas and is primarily an Internal list that your audience does not see. This is primarily internal, but it may also appear in your statements. Internal and external. Internal and external.

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

I feel humbled by and grateful to this experience given to me by the ASU Lodestar Center’s American Express Leadership Academy , whose team believed in and selected me; my amazing board of directors, who never hesitate to support my professional development; and the nonprofit leaders in my fellowship, who challenged and inspired me.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 2, 2007

Skip to Navigation Careers News Client login About Us Services Our Work Blogs Events Contact Us Home › Blogs › Influence Social Networking and #AIDS2010 Suzanne Rainey in Influence 15 Jul 2010 There’s a flurry of action this week as we await the start of the XVIII International AIDS Conference (#AIDS2010) in Vienna, Austria, next week.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 28, 2006

From her Berkeley-based office, Melinda Kramer facilitates an international network of women leaders. Melinda Kramer: Women's Global Green Action Network is an international organization that is linking and empowering women working in environmental sustainability around the world.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

The new e-book Amplify Program Impact: 7 Trailblazer Strategies for Success with Salesforce shares the challenges and solutions facing many organisations looking to deliver best-in-class programs and services and what this means from a technology perspective. Aligning Across Affiliates. Working Smarter Together.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

There are a lot of companies that give to international causes, which is great. What are the challenges specific to having an enterprise in an inner city? The biggest challenge that we face, and it's not specific to ICA's companies, is really the perception of what an inner city is. That is our inherent challenge.

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

I feel humbled by and grateful to this experience given to me by the ASU Lodestar Center’s American Express Leadership Academy , whose team believed in and selected me; my amazing board of directors, who never hesitate to support my professional development; and the nonprofit leaders in my fellowship, who challenged and inspired me.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 7, 2015

I then participated in an interesting master class entitled, “Mon coeur est français, ma collecte… internationale!” (“My heart is French, my fundraising… international!”) led by Anne-Christine Robine from international fundraising and communications agency Faircom International. international Maureen O''Brien'

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