Tech Soup

JANUARY 6, 2014

There, she builds technology that connects local communities to resources that help them solve problems and impact issues. A few weeks ago, we learned that SafeNight is a finalist in the Reimagine Opportunity Challenge from Partnership for Freedom. This challenge seeks to bring innovative solutions to the anti-trafficking field.

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Blue Avocado

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

In fact, one of my two biggest challenges as nonprofit CEO involved convincing boards that their service demanded accountability. This proved to be a wonderful way to share nationally AbilityFirst’s empowerment philosophy. We also created a risk management committee to address legal and other issues before they became problems.

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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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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 4, 2021

We talked extensively about her priorities in her new role, Goodwill’s biggest challenges, closing the opportunity gap, and the importance of technology in solving big problems. To that point, what’s the biggest challenge that Goodwill faces today? So there’s a big divide between what people think we do and what we actually do.

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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. What kinds of problems can machine learning solve? If not designed mindfully, AI can reinforce these problems in many ways.

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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. The root problem here is poor evaluation capacity. Illustration by Jocelyn Ruiz.

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

The growing magnitude and complexity of socioeconomic problems that face societies throughout the world has generated the urgency for cross-sector collaboration to emerge. They can be from business, government and civil society, which combine the competencies of each, to resolve a specified problem or challenge.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Unfortunately, adding to the complexity right now are the economic challenges hitting every sector. With pro bono support, you can diagnose a problem and scope the solution in a way that actually gets to the root of the challenge. It is a gift of empowerment to nonprofits, volunteers, and the communities around us.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 3, 2020

Social problems still endure, despite PM’s prominence as a way to ensure accountability and inform strategic decisions since the 1960’s. To truly move the needle towards ameliorating social challenges throughout the world, we must revisit the efficacy of what has been measured and how. Directly involve stakeholders in developing PM.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 7, 2012

It is all about the data, but data is playing a huge role in civic engagement strategies and if people or nonprofits lack the skills to use it for civic engagement goals, that poses a problem. And community organizations can use data to illuminate the challenges they face.

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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.” Microsoft will match individual donations through Give for Youth, through October 1st and up to $100,000.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

It aims to provide a gateway towards empowerment, educational, and employment opportunities to lead a fulfilling, prosperous, and purposeful life. She worried that without security in the testing centers, the tests would be disrupted, causing a very serious problem. Smooth Transition, Inc., Breaking Harmful Cycles. spanhidden.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 3, 2013

With Bookshare , Benetech’s online library for people with print disabilities, our ebook-based approach to the accessibility challenge has already delivered on the promise of ending the famine of accessible books in the United States. This allows a much broader group of experts to keep working on the problem.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 23, 2022

Empowerment is the greatest form of impact. According to the Annual Volunteer Survey, 96% of those who do pro bono projects say they gain skills — including leadership, team building and problem solving — which are all crucial to career growth. Because it’s not something you can give, but rather a way to unlock the potential in others.

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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’s this kind of problem that the global treaty is designed to solve. The November 2012 General Assembly took place in Bangkok, Thailand.

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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. What CSR projects have had the biggest impact? More About Our Participants. TechSoup serves nonprofits in 236 countries and territories around the world. plus_socialgood.

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Deborah Elizabeth Finn

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

The tendency of philanthropic professionals, big donors, and other relatively privileged people to assume that they know what is best for the people who are directly affected by the problems that need to be addressed. Articles, reports, podcasts, and videos: The Problems With Philanthropy, and What We Can Do to Fix Them.

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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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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. The Challenge was designed to surface ideas from non-traditional groups.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

young people are developing their own creative solutions to problems. utilize technology to develop solutions to social challenges. participants through identifying a problem and developing a. greater access for youth and foster empowerment through skills. skills are taught through a practical hands-on course that guides.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

With an aim to take on some of the world’s greatest problems and our commitment to leaving no one behind, we’ve concentrated our work specifically on two of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals. We work with six organizations committed to the education, employment and empowerment of women and girls across the globe.

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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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Museum 2.0

APRIL 29, 2015

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. Empowerment is the “individual” side of our theory of change. I don't think the challenge of museums is being community-oriented. The next exhibition. And so on.

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Tech Soup

JULY 8, 2011

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. most fundamental problems that people in less favourable environments. times (including the grand ones of poverty, dictatorship and natural.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 2, 2008

Clay Newton says "One of the challenges with this space is that the words are not equally understood across the full audience. Nonprofit Social Media Empowerment Guide. NpTech Social Media Empowerment Guide. Empowered MEdia MEdia Empowered Empowered by Media SMEG (social media empowerment guide). MEdia EmpoWErement.

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NTEN

AUGUST 16, 2011

To create an informative and immersive experience, goldextra took a documentary style approach in gathering data, conducting interviews, and learning about the challenges refugees and border police face. The inclusion of tough, thoughtful challenges would better promote the ideas the game is looking to express. JURY FEEDBACK.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 23, 2007

He pointed out that SEs are all about breaking away from charity and alms giving and focusing on pragmatic problem solving. Mirai Chatterjee of the Self Employed Women's Association in India explains social entrepreneurs as private initiatives that used business models around financial sustainability, self-help and empowerment.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

I love this stuff because, to me, data done right is empowerment. Here's the second problem: As Gartner put it in a webinar I attended, "managers want to dance with their data." I asked some folks on Twitter today if they had a BI strategy and what their biggest challenges were. I want to eat statistics for dinner.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 8, 2007

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). You did a survey that revealed that the village's most serious health problem is malaria. The real problem is social exclusion. mali health NGO empowerment

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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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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

If you don't have a local group (I can help fix that problem! ), there are also free online guides and a global Twitter chat October 5 using the hashtag #storymakers2017. Atrisco, New Mexico: Working Group and Help Desk: Bring Your Projects and Tech Challenges. Mahikeng, South Africa: Rural Tech Empowerment.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

What are the benefits and challenges of using low-code platforms? As you master low-code skills and the basics of AI, you will be fast-tracking applications to enhance your organization’s efficiency and fundraising efforts while giving yourself a competitive advantage in a challenging job market.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

They will be more likely to apply what they learned or what we call the “challenge of transfer” because they’re inspired. It starts with 2 or three rotations of share pairs, asking folks to connect around their success stories related to the topic and challenges related to the topic.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

But there was a problem: it wasn''t a consistent body. Our topics are broad, including Creative Spaces, Youth Empowerment, and Economic Opportunity. People opted into the meetings where they had interest or expertise and ignored those where they didn''t. We always had a group of 15-50 people together for intense brainstorming.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Images of Empowerment. To address this need, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, in partnership with the David and Lucile Packard Foundation and Getty Images, created Images of Empowerment. Images of Empowerment was created in 2015 and was extended in 2018. Grand Challenges Awards Repository.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 3, 2007

After the call I started wondering, "How do you activate more people to contribute to the solution of a problem that is so horrific it paralyzes people into inaction?" 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

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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. What's the challenge of using that process ?

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