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Good Magazine Wants You To Do Good!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Good Magazine as its tagline says is for "people who give a damn" and describes itself as a publishing platform to "change the world." " So, it comes as no surprise that every holiday season the magazine chooses nonprofit partners and runs a fundraising/subscription campaign. Here's how it works.

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Microsoft’s Networked Approach To Accelerating Social Change Through Technology

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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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AI for Nonprofits and Social Good: Link Roundup

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Social Change. NPR interviewed ethics expert Mason Marks, a medical doctor and research fellow at Yale and NYU law schools, and recently wrote about Facebook’s system, to discuss the ethical and privacy concerns. Wired Magazine. There is a section on recommended responsible practices for AI. AI and Ethics.

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Social Change Website Directory

Have Fun - Do Good

Rochelle specializes in online advocacy using technology for positive change in public consciousness, law, and social policy. One of the cool things on her site is a link to Social Change Websites , a directory of nonprofit, grassroots and advocacy campaign web sites. You can submit your social change web site here.

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Guest Post: Infusing “Social” into Social Justice Organizations

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Time Magazine provocatively named “The Protester” as its 2011 “Person of the Year” for its riveting influence on last year’s social and political events. As courageous citizens connected with each other to express dissent and organize public actions, social media tools spurred activism and social change in unprecedented ways.

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The Steep Challenges of Philanthropy to the Muslim World

Tech Soup

The challenge to providing help to this quarter of the world’s people is the growing body of anti-terrorism laws in the world, like the USA Patriot Act and Executive Order 13224 in the United States. These laws prohibit financial transactions with individuals and organizations associated with terrorism.

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Let the Donor Decide: Don’t Assume Giving is Off the Table During a Crisis

Connection Cafe

White in a TIME Magazine article in 2018. She reflected that the way we give is evolving impacted by tax law and technology along with changing consciousness and shifting social mores. Forty-one percent of donors have changed their giving due to increased knowledge about the nonprofit’s effectiveness.

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