Kindful

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Many foundations focus much of their philanthropy work on youth empowerment—and for good reason. The foundations on this list are just a few of the many that understand the importance that youth empowerment plays in helping young people from all backgrounds grow and excel during this critical stage of their life.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 23, 2022

Empowerment is the greatest form of impact. Unfortunately, many nonprofits and schools find themselves struggling to access the resources and expertise they need to navigate these changes, nor address the digital divide that exists in the communities they serve. The projects in and of themselves are high value.

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Companies Volunteer Impact Service 59

Qgiv

MAY 1, 2023

Donate to a nonprofit To effect meaningful change and make a positive impact on the AAPI community during AAPI Heritage Month, you can donate to community-enrichment organizations and other nonprofits throughout the month.

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Awareness Causes United States History 52

Museum 2.0

JANUARY 15, 2014

This week, my colleague Emily Hope Dobkin has a beautiful guest post on the Incluseum blog about the Subjects to Change teen program that Emily runs at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. Subjects to Change is an unusual museum program in that it explicitly focuses on empowering teens as community leaders.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

The Google AI Impact Challenge attracted 2,602 applications from six continents and 119 countries, with projects addressing a wide range of issue areas, from education to the environment. . Most projects require partnerships to access both technical ability and sector expertise. For organizations, the guidelines include: .

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Google Challenge Report Impact 74

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 10, 2007

Starting this week, you can vote for the best NetSquared Innovation Fund Award nominated projects until Saturday, April 14th at Noon PDT. You can cast your ballot for the projects that you think most effectively use the social web for social change. The complete list of projects can be found here. Games for Change.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 28, 2022

An important part of what we do at Salesforce.org is to convene those who can push the needle on improving the state of the world, and Davos was an ideal opportunity for us to engage inspiring speakers on pressing issues such as mental health, climate change, inequality, and global health. Jack Harries understands the power of storytelling.

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Benefit San Francisco Iran Storytelling 59

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 22, 2018

The program hosts a delegation of women who work in the tech industry to share their knowledge and skills with women-focused nonprofits, startups and girls empowerment programs in developing countries and in the US. It is great to have a day of fun before starting an intense week working on service projects. Tech2Empower Kanika Raney.

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Peru Exercise Empowerment Local 79

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

How do you build a movement for institutional change? We see OF/BY/FOR ALL as an adaptable playbook for community change. We plan to fuel a distributed Change Network of organizations growing OF/BY/FOR ALL together. Change Network organizations will make specific pledges to become of, by, and for new communities.

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Los Angeles Network Oakland Change 31

Twenty Hats

JUNE 7, 2021

Keep it simple and host an informal brainstorming session where you start adding up the simple numbers of your time spent on projects (your income, divided by the number of hours it takes you). Amber is a diversely skilled professional with a unique approach for innovating and leading projects in various environments.

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Metrics Attitude Empowerment Environment 59

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 7, 2006

I recently learned about an nonprofit organization in India dedicated to using video to help alleviate poverty and accelerate social change in the developing world. In looking at some of the project examples , I found several that focus on women's empowerment and rights in India. The organization is called Video Volunteers.

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India Empowerment Video NGO 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 6, 2008

Does your work and interests include how information and communication technology (ICTs) can be used to promote social change? s Technology Empowerment Centre (W.TEC) is looking for mentors to participate in its Networking for Success project. The project, which will last for 3 months, will run from May to July 2008.

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NTEN

AUGUST 16, 2011

By Jeff Ramos, Community and Content Manager, Games for Change. For the first time, this year's Games for Change Festival created an opportunity for producers of games in development to get live feedback from leading game designers, educators, and funders on the main stage. Like many transmedia projects, SOS_Slaves is ambitious.

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Game Change Classroom Machinima 81

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2010

Take for example deploying 200 sensors throughout the Brazilian rainforest to measure and visualize the effects of climate change. One theme he touched on that resonated throughout the day is how Microsoft is working with networks and partners to leverage it’s financial, technical, and social change commitment.

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Network Change Technology Social 103

Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 8, 2007

--Caitlin Cohen of the Sigida Keneyali Project. Below is an e-interview with another woman making a difference in Mali, Caitlin Cohen, one of two US coordinators of the Sigida Keneyali Project. If you know of a woman doing amazing, world changing work that you think I should interview, please email me at britt AT brittbravo DOT com.

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Mali Project Change NGO 40

Twenty Hats

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Over the past year, our research team at Arizona State University has conducted the Technology Evolution in Volunteer Management, or “TEVA” project. Whether they’re reading to kids, or working on a strategic project, the fact that we can do this remotely is good for everyone.”. That was the silver lining.

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Volunteer Story Technology Management 69

Tech Soup

MAY 11, 2015

This project began as a Code for America project in Detroit. It was the first project of its kind in 28 years. Like the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project , buyout data is displayed on a map of the city so that city officials and housing organizations can identify and respond to buyout trends. Data Collecting and Mapping.

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San Francisco Detroit Change API 36

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

The project is called “ Tech2Empower ,” organized by Wake , an organization on a quest to leverage technology for women’s empowerment globally. I’m giving my support as well as sharing my teaching and technology skills with Women’s Rights organizations in Ukraine. In Ukraine, nearly 2 million people are internally displaced.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 7, 2012

.” The blog post is about the launch of the Boston Foundation’s new resource for community organizations and media, the Boston Indicators Project website. According to the blog post: “Data and reports alone do not produce change,” said Charlotte Kahn, Senior Director of the Boston Indicators Project.

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Data Literacy Boston Charlotte 101

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 3, 2013

“As organizations,” Osborne said, “we must liberate spending to focus on the promotion, learning and innovation around braille,” and recognize that we ought to embrace today’s changing economics and technology so that braille can be part of an equation which delivers access to information for all, not just to those who can afford it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 17, 2017

Wake’s Tech2Empower program organizes delegations of volunteer Technology Advisors, women who work for Silicon Valley companies like Google, Salesforce, Mozilla, YouTube, GE Digital and IRC, to provide training for women’s rights and girls empowerment NGOs in developing countries and here in the United States. … Read More

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Open Guatemala Tips Training 70

ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 3, 2020

Use performance measurements sensitive enough to detect gradual changes so that small scale initiatives can be informative. Ben’s Bells Project and the University of Arizona teamed up to create surveys that measure outcomes from the nonprofit’s Kind Campus curriculum. Foundations such as the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation and the W.K.

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Measure Create Arizona Participatory 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2016

At the ages of 12-13, these girls, who came from nothing, are going to school and teaching themselves to use technology to improve themselves and change their communities. I’ve been committed to working on technology capacity building for organizations serving Women and Girls empowerment. You can make a donation here.

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International Cambodia Technology Ukraine 50

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. Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World. Philanthropy for change, not charity. Bay Area Equity Atlas.

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Philanthropy Open Participatory Evaluation 98

Tech Soup

DECEMBER 1, 2015

What CSR projects have had the biggest impact? It's an international community where digital innovators, thought leaders, social entrepreneurs, changemakers, and global citizens come together to share world-changing ideas and catalyze action. What have been the biggest pain points, obstacles, and weaknesses? UN relations.

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Tech Empowerment Global National 36

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2011

Knight Foundation and Monitor Institute published a new report called “ Connected Citizens &# that looks at the impact of networks on communities, and asks, what do these emerging networks mean for community change? The report describes three possible scenarios in detail and analyzes the impact for social change an philanthropy.

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Network Report Empowerment Structure 104

Global Giving

APRIL 25, 2020

If you don’t have a good question in mind, your organization is probably better off focusing first on clarifying its theory of change. Featured Photo: Send 100 Girls to STEM Camp in Nigeria by Women's Technology Empowerment Centre (W.TEC). Does answering “no” to any of those questions mean my organization can’t use machine learning?

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Learning Model Nigeria Spam 69

Museum 2.0

APRIL 17, 2013

When we talk about museums or cultural institutions as vehicles of social and civic change, what does that really mean? Last week I had a conversation that changed my perspective on this question. And we each have specific interests in increasing access, connection, and empowerment of marginalized people.

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Arts Work Museum Homeless 51

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 9, 2018

I believe in the power of books to change the world. 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. Gerry did have one other piece of critical advice: change the name.

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Accessibility eBook People Copyright 135

Bloomerang

APRIL 7, 2022

To that end, I’ve compiled a list of funders who spend their time and grantmaking resources on assisting women-led movements to advance meaningful change. The following organizations currently offer grant and funding opportunities for women and/or accept letters of inquiry or proposals. Amber Grant Foundation. Foundation for Women.

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Empowerment Grant Fund Resource 79

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Culture of Change: There is a natural curiosity to try new things and take calculated risks to adapt to changing conditions in the nonprofit sector. Culture of Agile: There is empowerment of people to interact and collaborate that allows them to adapt and respond to a changing environment.

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Culture Data South Dakota Los Angeles 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 10, 2016

The royalties that I earn from my books have been donated to nonprofits to support women’s and girl’s empowerment work and given this past week, I am all the more convinced of the need to support such programs. I am honored to be an advisor to WAKE, whose mission is to amplify the work of women leading change globally.

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Cambodia Empowerment Nonprofit Training 50

Kindful

MARCH 5, 2021

To that end, I’ve compiled a list of funders who spend their time and grantmaking resources on assisting women-led movements to advance meaningful change. The following organizations currently offer grant and funding opportunities for women and/or accept letters of inquiry or proposals. Amber Grant Foundation. Foundation for Women.

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Empowerment Grant Fund Resource 104

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 27, 2008

She makes some great points, and gives good tips to make changes. James Young, on the Connection Cafe, suggests that we think about constituent empowerment when we think about organizational websites. The Hack Artist suggests that it’s important to marry direct mail efforts and a web presence.

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Consultant Open Source Nonprofit Websites 124

Tech Soup

OCTOBER 17, 2012

As part of the Transforming Communities project, we had the opportunity to explore apps targeted toward youth as well as apps developed by youth. Transforming Communities is a Microsoft-funded initiative that builds on what TechSoup and Microsoft already learned through the first App It Up project.

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Teen Netsquared Student Library 65

Tech Soup

MAY 7, 2014

But even more important, it is enough for us learn, to collaborate, and to make change. Human trafficking survivors are better able to access the kinds of resources necessary to get safe and stable housing, social services, and economic empowerment. We felt good about our initial proposal confident in the ambition. We couldn't.

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New Jersey Proposal Law Empowerment 44

Tech Soup

MAY 28, 2013

We’re proud to present Youth Projects TV from Melbourne Australia with the 2 nd place overall award for their submission titled: No one grows up wanting to be a drug addict. Youth Projects TV will receive prizes from: GoToMyPC. Cisco Flip cameras. Seagate Hard Drive. View their Flickr set. Second Place. Flickr Pro. Third Place.

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Storytelling Award Digital Challenge 64