Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2014

Technology currently serves privileged groups through tools that provide access to education, literacy, health, and justice. One major step to improving security of sensitive information was the recent development and release of Mobile Martus. But what about everybody else? The time has never been better to think 10X bigger!

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sgEngage

AUGUST 24, 2023

Activity trackers, such as the Apple Watch and Fitbit, have revolutionized the way we approach physical fitness and they’re also dramatically changing the way we approach fundraising events. Participants track the number of pages they’ve read or books they’ve completed on a leaderboard to support literacy and education.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Highlights of this Update: Global Literacy Human Rights Benetech Labs Communications Global Literacy Bookshare celebrated a double milestone this summer, reaching over 200,000 available titles in our collection and serving over 250,000 members with disabilities! Technology for social change is needed more and more.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 16, 2015

In this edition of nonprofit tech news, TechSoup shows new ways your nonprofit could harness mobile and killer apps in 2016! Now, it is looking like the emerging killer apps may be messaging apps that text directly to stakeholders' mobile phones. The NPR story on mobile recruiting is a good place to find out about this new trend.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Profound Change Starts With Local Partners. Over the course of a three-year grant , Champions implement ambitious, goal-oriented projects and participate in advocacy campaigns aimed at changing local and national policies that hinder equal access to education. The game-changing part of Nayla’s platform?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 16, 2014

We’re thrilled that today’s rapid changes in technology are opening up tremendous new ways to address the problems they face. Mifos can immediately deploy these new mobile features of its financial inclusion platform, which delivers world-class microcredit services that help open up new opportunities for the poor and their families.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 14, 2021

Think about what changed for you, your nonprofit, and your constituencies. . A new survey from McKinsey finds responses to the Covid-19 pandemic sped business adoption of digital technologies by several years—and many of these changes will likely be here for the long haul. Next look at what you didn’t change from the BC period.

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Achieve

MAY 21, 2017

The mobile movement. When you think of “mobile” today, your first thought is probably of a smartphone or a favorite app. But while mobility has become a given in our lives, we’ve forgotten its original definition: capable of moving or being moved readily.

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Non Profit Quarterly

DECEMBER 14, 2021

We wanted to know how technology use has changed in volunteer management, especially through the pandemic. With technology solutions, organizations were able to reach volunteers and clients who lived too far away or had other mobility issues. and Canada about their technology use. Who are these people we talked with?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

A free agent is a person (many times a GenY, but not always ) who is a passionate about a social cause, but is working outside of a nonprofit organization to organize , mobilize , raise money , and engage with others. Mark is a free agent championing the cause of homelessness.

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Qgiv

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

And now, you’re using a hybrid fundraising model to address both in-person and online engagement— and you likely have new software to address that change as well. What level of technology literacy exists across your team? In addition, your nonprofit is focused on year-end giving from now through December.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 31, 2015

NetSquared gathers together nonprofits and activists, tech leaders and funders, and everyone who's interested in using technology for social change. Activists and community leaders will see and be given the opportunity to present on successful uses of technology for social change. Tuesday, September 8, 2015. Mukono, Uganda.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Tech Training for Nonprofits and Libraries will help you: Understand ways to manage technology change in your organization through tech training. You can access it day or night, on your computer at work or on your mobile device. Digital Literacy Resources. Every class listed has handouts and a lesson plan associated with it.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Our breakthrough in the conception of Martus came in 2000, when I was looking to expand Benetech to new frontiers of social good beyond our origins—helping disabled people access books in what is now our Global Literacy program. I invite you to check back on our website for ongoing updates about our work.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

It evolves to meet our changing needs, to fit our changing lifestyles, and to integrate into the way we do our work. Problems were that many survivors had no internet access, let alone electrical power, let alone computers or even computer literacy. Social media, like all technology, is developed by people. Direct Content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2006

Youth Connection, Part I: Field Building with University Students Moderated by Katie Salen (Parsons, the New School of Design) Description: Aside from creating "future leaders," let's talk about what University students are already contributing to social change gaming by creating a new kind of gaming environment. Gaming is literacy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 23, 2012

This is a terrific presentation from Lee Raine from the Pew Internet and American Life Project that looks at the issue being “hyperconnected” or “over connected” to the web, mobile technologies and social media. Have you noticed a change in the way your memory works as Amber Case describes?

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 4, 2019

Mobile is the New Normal. There are 7 billion people on Earth and 5 billion of them have a mobile phone. It should come as no surprise that giving on mobile devices has seen tremendous growth in the past few years. Since 2009, online donations made on mobile devices have grown from 9% of all transactions to 24% in 2018.

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Forum One

MARCH 23, 2021

data literacy, device preferences)? It may be difficult for low-mobility users to access the deeper levels of a megamenu. A hamburger menu, while used mainly on mobile, does find its way to desktop as well. Defining your needs and identifying past areas of success or opportunity provide a clearer direction to move forward.

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NTEN

MARCH 20, 2015

Throughout the conference, Amy and I wrote articles on a select group of sessions highlighting innovations at the intersection of nonprofit technology and social change. Activism That Drives Supporters How is it possible to establish meaningful relationships to create and mobilize for change in this noisy digital age?

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 22, 2017

Digital Strategy is my passion, but less from the perspective of technology implementation and more from the perspective of embedding digital knowledge and literacy throughout an organization. The answer: You embrace change as a constant. Creating a culture of digital literacy. The answer is simple.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2011

networks, training and capacity building approaches, and culture change. As far as geekery topics, I’m particularly excited to explore some of the new tools for coping with the ever expanding information on social networks and mobile. Is learning part of your New Year’s resolutions for 2011?

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Tech Soup

JULY 17, 2015

Some Lifeline phone service providers also offer free mobile phones and minutes to low-income families. They will create and promote digital literacy programs. In addition to NTEN's fellowship project, NTEN's March 2015 edition of its quarterly journal, Change, is devoted largely to digital inclusion. Citizens Online.

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NTEN

JULY 18, 2013

In addition, Fifth Third Foundation decided to focus on financial literacy teaching kids in classrooms about money management. They found a cause that aligns with their own company mission and are continuing to look at defining their vision and how they can mobilize employee resources. To this end, the Mondel?z

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Tech Soup

JULY 20, 2011

For them, it’s about having reliable and fast Internet access; accessing health care services via mobile in rural areas; voicing views online without fear of persecution, not having useful services blocked by Internet service providers (ISPs), not being exposed to cyberbullying, or fearing to become a victim of online fraud.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

and her Passion to Change the World. Non-profits like Room to Read are benefiting from the program by promoting International Literacy Day in partnership with Twitter. not organized or centralized by specific non-profit organizations) model be sustainable and/or enough to affect real change in the world? Meet Claire.

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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 talked about how wisdom is being able to manage budha and your mobile device. The benefit of wisdom is freedom of your spirit.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 12, 2015

" Digital Democracy's approach to achieving this mission is based on the following three stages: Digital literacy: Getting individuals to understand the tools and how to use them. These may include things like mobile phones, cameras, or even drones. " Dd has enlisted and trained local leaders program from the beginning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2006

MacArthur wants to know: How is digital media changing the way that children learn and develop and what are the implications? He noted that media literacy has to be integrated as a skill set in all places. Media literacy and creation skills can't be add-ons in schools, but have to be integrated across the curriculum in all subjects.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 12, 2008

How do increase internet literacy with communities? Organizations are changing. The cultural gap isn't changing. Mobile phones - text for social networking - particularly youth. If there is what should it be? What technologies do you need to encourage user-generated content on video? Don't ask permission, apologize.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 9, 2014

Nonprofits have needs that can be addressed using mobile technology, particularly with apps or texting services. Essentially, Ohana is a mobile-friendly platform for finding social services. It was an interesting look at the development process of a social services mobile app. Does your organization have a mobile app?

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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. Their funding priorities focus on the following areas of interest: financial literacy, workforce development, micro finance, entrepreneurship, leadership skills, and formal education.

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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. Their funding priorities focus on the following areas of interest: financial literacy, workforce development, micro finance, entrepreneurship, leadership skills, and formal education.

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NTEN

DECEMBER 9, 2021

For example, if your nonprofit specializes in teaching financial literacy, you can set up an advice line for community members to call in with their financial questions. This way, you know what to continue doing and what to change for next time. Ensure your technology is up-to-date.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2011

Mobilizing 1 million people! In 2010, SAF’s “Drill Down for Safety” project mobilized nearly 800,000 people with national texting drills! We are Rape Crisis and Victim Services, Employment (80% placement rate for women and men), Adult Literacy, general counseling for women and families, legal clinic…and on and on.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

Focus on critical moments of change. Here, we got to tap into experienced storytellers who were sharing mobile tools and platforms. Why mobile? Important issues emerged in the conversation: data access, data literacy, design of platform, dissemination strategy, and impact measurement. Know your paradigm or perspective.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

Do they like those one-time projects, those capital projects where you can build that outdoor classroom or,” you know, “purchase that mobile mammogram unit for your hospital and be able to create impact for years to come?” What are the life changes that result from those services? ” So provide context.

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