Saleforce Nonprofit

APRIL 5, 2021

This blog post goes over our secret recipe for fostering employee engagement, and provides fellow corporate social responsibility (CSR) leaders with ways to adapt to a challenging year. . This post aims to provide corporate social responsibility leaders with ideas to adapt to a challenging year. This isn’t your usual read-a-thon!

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

The Case Foundation crunched some numbers on impact investing, read the full story and see what they found. On September 8, Unesco observed its 40th International Literacy Day, from which Care2 highlights some shocking statistics on literacy around the globe and reminds us that the ability to read and write is a human right.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 16, 2014

Then I’ll share the latest stories on the impact of our tech volunteerism and human rights tech efforts as well our new tech leadership. The Challenge ran for six weeks through December 5th. For example, Martus can now be configured in less than 10 minutes by anyone with basic digital literacy skills. Martus Desktop 4.5

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

It featured a ten minute video by journalist Manoush Zomorodi sharing some ideas and tips on new digital literacy skills of managing information overload and overwhelmed. The challenge was to focus solely on listening to the video and not multi-task and reflect on the experience. This helps improve memory and synthesis.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

It wasn’t until 1993, when a reconstruction of these events by American journalist Mark Danner first appeared in The New Yorker , that the full story of the El Mozote massacre was brought to light and sent shock waves through the international community. Being geeks, we thought of ways to address this challenge with technology.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 7, 2020

By Allison Weber , founder of Allison Weber Consulting , a fundraising and communications business dedicated to helping mission-driven organizations tell better stories. Stories are windows into new worlds. Now more than ever, nonprofits need to share stories of how they’re making the world better.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 3, 2012

I shared an overview of networks for social change and some of the challenges that nonprofits face in embracing the data. I told this crowd of data geeks that they should volunteer with nonprofits by signing up for the Analysis Exchange or serve on a nonprofit board – that nonprofits would welcome their expertise.

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Non Profit Quarterly

DECEMBER 14, 2021

We need hands on deck, so having to close our volunteer program was a challenge for us—emotionally, losing such a large part of our community—but we also had to find a way to keep them connected so that they would come back when our doors reopened. The challenges of remote volunteering are front-of-mind for many volunteer managers.

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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. He is constantly searching for new opportunities clients can leverage to achieve differentiation, develop competitive advantages, and better communicate their brand story. Being a nonprofit professional isn’t easy.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 30, 2014

We are offering a Dell Latitude 10 tablet refurbished by our friends at CDI to the best “ Digital Connector ” story lead. Whether you are teaching a community about sustainable agriculture in Colorado or organizing a hack-a-thon in Romania, we want to help you tell your story. Enter your story by 5:00 p.m.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 16, 2022

Here’s a story of my own about that. Without them, young people on our waitlist continue to face the challenges that low levels of literacy create in their lives. Offer a Challenge. Not to mention the $240 is predictable income! For the donor, $20 per month is easier to manage in their budget.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 30, 2014

Whether you are teaching a community about sustainable agriculture in Colorado or organizing a hack-a-thon in Romania, we want to help you tell your story. One of our favorite ways to share success stories is through our Local Impact Map (LIM). It is a place for funders, and NGOs alike to find inspiring stories about tech use.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 11, 2021

From creating digital learning opportunities and initiatives to protect girls’ mental well-being to securing national funding for education — the Champions we support are driving solutions to girls’ education challenges in their communities. . The broadcasts air weekly and deliver multilingual lessons on literacy, numeracy, and STEM.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 29, 2013

Although the challenges differ by region, the outcome is the same everywhere: young people are simply not gaining the 21 st century skills and experience required for today's workforce. Gadget instruction is an incredibly important component of digital literacy as more people are accessing the Internet from their mobile devices.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 2, 2007

Our biggest challenge now is finding the right people to join our team. Our local paper, the San Jose Mercury News, did two great pieces on Benetech, a business section feature story and an exceptional column by Mike Cassidy entitled An Executive Does Well By Helping Others. We featured many of these on Benetech's website.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

Then, I could be lazy and forgetful--available stories were brought to me on demand. If not, I challenge you to start listening today. Beth Kanter - Listening Literacy Skills: What keywords or phrases have brought you some insights? Did you take my challenge? I could search and quickly add that search to my reader.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 12, 2015

Many years ago, NetSquared hosted challenges and conferences to highlight and bring together fledging social entrepreneurs. " Digital Democracy (Dd) was a prize winner in that challenge. Key Challenges in Working in Remote Areas. They begin by trying to understand the local challenges first.

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Tech Soup

JULY 17, 2013

The Open Aid Partnership , held Open Nepal Week’s Data Literacy Bootcamp, which gathered over 80 Nepali journalists, developers, coders, and civil society representatives to find, extract, and analyze and visualize public data. Some examples of NGOs using data visualization to tell important stories are also given.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 8, 2019

As a professional communicator, you face a smorgasbord of challenges online. American Literacy is Iffy. Despite the challenges you face as a content creator, there are some quick ways to improve your words and set your nonprofit apart from the herd. A ‘lede’ is the first sentence of a new story. What You’re Up Against.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 23, 2016

There are digital literacy trainings for women springing up in Bangladesh, Internet cafés for women opening doors in Argentina, and women leaders in Kenya prototyping mobile apps that send out alerts if a woman’s safety is threatened. They warn us that we cannot ignore the horrifying stories that reveal the dark side of technology.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2008

This ended up being a collaboration because Harry had to go to bed and I didn't want him to miss story time -- so I finished the narration. Here's a few stories about some children mentioned in the video: Sina, age 15, is an orphan and head of her family, two younger sisters aged 12 and 9.

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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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NTEN

MARCH 20, 2015

After wrapping up our annual Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC), NTEN’s CEO, Amy Sample Ward, and I quickly recharged for SXSW Interactive , where we partnered another year with Beaconfire to host the Beacon Lounge for social changemakers, and with the NonProfit Times to cover stories on the nonprofit technology sector.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

I discovered it because of a charity challenge they're running on Twitter to raise awareness of their book, plus raise some money to help Room To Read. I heard about the challenge because Laura Fitton posted this tweet. Now, a few critical thoughts about their charity challenge. You can read a more detailed definition here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

I couldn’t help but think about how important content curation skills, information literacy, and encouraging a movement around this as Clay Johnson suggests in his book, the Information Diet. ” He started off with a great story about what a tribe in South Africa does when someone in their community does something bad.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 30, 2011

It's one of the great untold stories of nonprofit enterprise. It's the story of one person, founder Yvette Marrin, working with a disabled little girl and achieving major breakthroughs using a computer. The Largest Minority in the World. People with disabilities are one of the largest minorities in the U.S. in Sparks, Nevada.

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EveryAction

MARCH 16, 2017

Whether quietly spearheading some of the world's most groundbreaking scientific and medical research or not-so-quietly leading revolutions on the battlefield, our history is ripe with stories of ferocious, adventurous, enlightened, and persistent women. Do you love ladies in literature? Sheroes in the Sciences. Gertrude B. Future Sheroes.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 3, 2015

Increasingly, we’re seeing causes influence more than just the nonprofit industry; they’re re-shaping business culture and challenging the ‘this is the way we’ve always done things’ mentality that too often prevents us from activating real change. You tell your story. And we’re better for it. They’ve made doing good so simple.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2009

As we wrote in the Mashable post: While the social web has been a fantastic place for nonprofits to harness the long tail of giving with movements like Twestival and the Case Foundation’s Giving Challenge , high dollar donor cultivation has not been prevalent. What are the challenges? The goal of our Community Philanthropy 2.0

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FEBRUARY 14, 2011

That said, I sympathize with the challenges involved in designing something like this--challenges we faced again and again when I was working on the Operation Spy immersive experience at the International Spy Museum. But walking into this experience, the kids were told that the responsibility was "entirely theirs."

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 2, 2006

This week's Solutionary woman is Viet-Ly Nguyen, a former co-worker from Streetside Stories , who I interviewed for my Big Vision Podcast last winter. Streetside Stories is a San Francisco based arts education nonprofit that actually just started a blog , so give them a little link love!

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 15, 2008

She went from being somebody's servant to somebody who when she walks down the street of her community, people stop her and shake her hand and thank her for the stories that she is telling, or ask, 'When are you going to interview me? I have a story that you have to hear.'" You tell your story." CH: Right, exactly.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2006

Another point of intersection here for me is Henry Jenkins recently published 72-page white paper " Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century." He also identifies the new literacies and skills -- and while he is talking about this in the context of children and education.

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Of course, they’re also challenging to manage as you’re handling the donations of items on one end and funds on the other. 5Ks are a great option as they’re relatively short but still challenging enough for more seasoned runners. The more you challenge participants, the more driven they’ll be to succeed!

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Nonprofits Source

MAY 8, 2024

As new marketing trends emerge and old ones fall away, it can be challenging to know what to prioritize when creating compelling auction marketing materials. Telling engaging stories about your nonprofit requires more than just broadcasting an overview of your mission and history to the world. Understand your audience.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

There are lots of ways to do peer-to-peer fundraisers, and holding events like a bike ride, a cook-off, or a “challenge” (insert first obligatory mention of the Ice Bucket Challenge) are some of the best ones. The possibilities for peer-to-peer fundraising events are nigh on endless, but here are nine of the most popular kinds: 1.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 22, 2013

We saw the potential in this story and dispatched a reporter and photojournalist to interview the town's residents, write up a feature for our online newspaper, and create a photo essay. A month after the story was published, an email arrived from a writer at the New York Times who had discovered our feature and wanted to write it up.

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