Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

It felt to me like coming out of the closet when I began talking about spiritual practice with my activist friends"--Marisa Handler The more I write about organizations and individuals who are creating social change, the more I realize that to create true change, we need to change our inner world and our outer world.

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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? Last month I interviewed Cristi Hegranes, its Founder and President. CH: Right, exactly.

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Association TV

JULY 29, 2022

In the mid-19th Century, the East India Company needed a physical space to store their piles and piles of ledgers, forms and other important artifacts that managed their transactions all over the world. Then just before the turn of the century, the railroad became a thing, and everything changed. Local businesses became national.

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Association TV

JULY 29, 2022

Correction error: In the podcast, I suggest the East India Company first moved into their office in Britain in the 19th Century, when it was in fact the 18th Century. Then just before the turn of the century , the railroad became a thing, and everything changed. Then a global pandemic hit and everything changed again.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 2, 2007

For example, I'm planning on going to India and Bangladesh next month for the first time, and to Uganda and Sudan next year. By announcing this in many press interviews, I've managed to create lots of external pressure on myself to get this done!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2008

Right before Thanksgiving , the TweetsGiving effort and Avi Kaplan helped Epic Change raise over $10,000 in 48 hours to build a classroom in Tanzania. As Lucy Bernholz notes, this might be one more example of fundraising on Twitter is less marginal and moving to the middle. September, 2008 Dr. Mani, a heart surgeon in India - and Web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2009

Others examples include loans to schools in India and capital for small manufacturers in Ghana. It was a bit tough catching up on the acronyms but the Global Impact Investing Network (GINN) has taken up a chunk of the work. In the spirit of demystification here is a definition and a couple of resources about the social capital market.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

." - Jensine Larsen Jensine Larsen is the Founder and CEO of World Pulse , a global media and communication network devoted to bringing women a global voice. They broadcast and unite women's voices from around the world into a powerful force for change. We unite those voices to accelerate change. It had hit India.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

My 8 day visit to India was a whirlwind. The Nasscom Foundation in India, the epicenter of nonprofit technology and social innovation, invited me to present as part of the Global CSR track in a session about reaching the Bottom of the Pyramid with technology and social media. I'm still recovering. No wonder I am still tired!

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 13, 2010

"She stood up in our meeting and said that was exactly why women are afraid of taking loans in India, but with Nest, because it's interest-free and they can repay in their necklaces, they didn't have that kind of fear. I've posted an edited transcript of my conversation with Rebecca during her interview for the Big Vision Podcast.

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Global Giving

JULY 12, 2017

However, who is responsible for choosing the people to interview, for setting up those interviews, for securing locations to shoot? For example, will the filmmaker provide a list of interview questions and a shot list prior to production? Featured Photo: Empower 350 Grassroots Correspondents in India by Video Volunteers.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 24, 2014

The nonprofit technology news this month reports on the reinvention of the wheel in India and Africa, how nonprofits are leading the wearable computing field, the privacy threat you may not have heard about yet, and plenty more. Reinventing the Wheel in India and Africa. We have another date for the end of the global digital divide!

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Longtime Have Fun, Do Good Readers and Big Vision Podcast listeners may remember my interview with Dining for Women's Founder, Marsha Wallace, in September 2007. You can read the edited transcript below, or listen to the interview on the Big Vision Podcast homepage , or on iTunes. Tags: women philanthropy interview podcast.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

I can see someone said that they work in India. WhatsApp is huge in India. Some people, most people use it now only for personal communication but it is changing with a lot of NGOs, a lot of nonprofits across the world using it for a more professional purpose, and I’m going to show you how in some examples that you can use it.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 4, 2010

They shared stories from their experience there, and talked about how they are trying to do development and social change work differently. Melinda Kramer: Women's Earth Alliance is a global organization and we work around the world uniting women who are on the front lines of environmental causes. This training was tremendous.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 12, 2007

If we do not deal with the water problems on a global scale, I believe we will see conflict on a global scale.-- She believes in making films that spark positive social change and recently completed a short film about water rights issues, A Drop of Life. Britt Bravo: What are you working on now?

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 28, 2007

I had an opportunity to interview Paola for the Big Vision Podcast, and wanted to share the transcript with you. She is donating 100 percent of the royalties from the book to the Global Fund for Women. I went to 15 countries on five continents, and interviewed and photographed 129 women. In 2001, I began photographing.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 7, 2013

It was so gratifying to see firsthand how Martus , a free and open-source software tool developed by Benetech, is empowering people to be the change they wish to see. ND-Burma member groups regularly send observers, at great personal risk, across Burma’s borders with India, Bangladesh, Thailand and China. Thank you in advance!

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 8, 2006

I was thrilled when Ilyse Hogue , contacted me to say that her friend Anna Lappé was in town to promote her new book, Grub: Ideas for an Urban Organic Kitchen , and might be available for an interview. You can hear the interview on the Big Vision Podcast , or read the transcript below. So just trying to get us to really see that.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 30, 2007

In April I organized a panel for the Stanford Women's Leadership Conference called "Solutionary Women: How Can I Create Change?" I asked four of the women who I had previously interviewed for the Big Vision Podcast to share what brought them to their work, and their advice for the graduate and undergraduate women who attended the conference.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

We travel because we think it’s the most effective way to spread social change. We travel because it‘s the best use of our time in finding the partnerships, insights, and the money our teams need to create more social change. It’s the week of the United Nations General Assembly and the Clinton Global Initiative.

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APRIL 2, 2008

-Kavita Ramdas, President and CEO, Global Fund for Women. Kavita Ramdas is the President and CEO of the nonprofit, the Global Fund for Women. I had the opportunity to interview her on March 6th for the Big Vision Podcast, and have included an edited transcript of the interview below.

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