Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

This blog originally appeared on the Huffington Post In December 1981 soldiers of the Salvadoran Army’s Atlacatl Battalion entered the village of El Mozote, where they murdered hundreds of men, women and children. I was aghast that it could take a dozen years for the world to believe the massacre had happened.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

We’re operating at the forefront of copyright limitations and exceptions, both in the United States and globally. After all, they’re proud of their creations and would love to see them benefit disadvantaged people and communities, where regular market forces would fail to go. We serve human rights activists in more than 100 countries.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 22, 2024

Does the community have a strong need for this nonprofit? Make sure that by starting a new nonprofit, you’ll be able to fulfill an unmet need in the community. For example, perhaps your idea for creating a nonprofit focused on raising funds for children fighting cancer started with one family’s need for support in a challenging time.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 4, 2012

I did a post a few weeks ago on youth programs in TechSoup Global's new Local Impact Map and decided I hadn’t covered this resource nearly enough. demonstrates what nonprofits, NGOs, and libraries around the world are doing with their TechSoup Global software donations to further their missions. Our Local Impact Map.

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Tech Soup

MAY 7, 2014

There, she builds technology that connects local communities to resources that help them solve problems and impact issues. Marnie gets wonky about things like data, APIs and community organizing, especially when they all come together. We heard from law enforcement about the urgent need for shelter after a legal activity in a region.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 4, 2014

Google Global Impact Award competitions have been held in India and the UK, and most recently in the San Francisco Bay Area. A panel of community advisors reviewed the submissions, and chose 25 finalists – all of whom won significant grants. Google then invited the public to vote for the top winners.

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Tech Soup

MAY 31, 2013

We proudly welcome NGO partners Vietnet-ICT and the Lin Centre in Vietnam, as well as ASEAN Foundation , Kopernik Marketplace , and YCAB Foundation in Indonesia to the TechSoup Global family. L — Listen and understand the challenges faced by individuals and organizations working to strengthen our community.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 5, 2008

Last Christmas at breakfast, rather than under the tree, she presented her two daughters, son in-law and three grandchildren with a set of different colored nesting boxes, the kind that, when empty, fit inside each other. The son in-law received "Stanford football tickets!" Each had a sand dollar glued on the top for decoration.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 11, 2007

Acumen Fund is a non-profit global venture fund that uses entrepreneurial approaches to solve the problems of global poverty. Ashoka 's mission is to shape a citizen sector that is entrepreneurial, productive and globally integrated. If you do the math, that's $1 million donated to these organizations.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 12, 2022

When children can not achieve their full potential, it tears at a countries’ social fabric and directly diminishes its economic growth. And even as these dire consequences are known, child labour has increased globally to 160 million. Child labour is a violation of every child’s right to a childhood. About the Author. Kevin Cassidy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2008

Nhuong Son , Wired Fundraiser for Cambodian Children! He discovered the Sharing Foundation's project on Global Giving and decided to enter the America's Giving Challenge. KEN is after all was made for the Khmer people and it was made in such away to reach the Khmer community near or afar. It's the law of average.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2007

The idea for the kits came from the video blogging community when I blogged about wanting to see more video blogging in Cambodia and through the generosity of Coffee with Doug video blog, I sent over 3 camera kits with Jay Dedman and Ryanne Hodson to the Sharing Foundation's computer school. Read his blog post about winning ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 21, 2005

The trainings were held in different Community Information Centers in the provinces. Meanwhile, Mean Lux has become a digerati of sorts -- his story and the story of other bloggers was published in the Cambodia Daily, one of the largest English language newspapers in Cambodia, in an article in Wired News , and Global s Online.

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sgEngage

MAY 6, 2021

Rather than a single moment in time, ESG was born out of actions in the business community over several decades that culminated into our modern understanding of ESG today. In the same year, the Global Reporting Initiative was founded in Boston. 2000 – The United National Global Compact is launched.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

It really reiterates the community’s perspective about your project and reinforces the need for it. Or there’s a second bucket that I’m really sort of anecdotally seeing a strong movement or a strong trend in the community. They’re meeting a need in the community. One of the examples I can think of here.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JULY 30, 2021

As a social impact center of Salesforce, our focus at Salesforce.org is to build powerful technology for, and with, our community of nonprofits, mission-driven companies, and education institutions. From this, a coalition of tech companies came together to work with global experts and survivors to help eradicate trafficking using technology.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 17, 2022

Human trafficking organizations advocate for stronger anti-trafficking laws, provide services and support for victims of trafficking crimes, and develop long-term strategies to end human trafficking. Mission: Economic power is the key to breaking the cycle of exploitation among vulnerable communities. Destiny Rescue.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Because without art our children’s minds will not grow to comprehend life beyond the obvious. Because in a global society all our human rights need to be fought for and protected. Because 9 American children and 75 American adults die everyday from gun violence. Communities in Schools. Southern Poverty Law Center.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 20, 2011

Because without art our children’s minds will not grow to comprehend life beyond the obvious. Because in a global society all our human rights need to be fought for and protected. Because 9 American children and 75 American adults die everyday from gun violence. Communities in Schools. Southern Poverty Law Center.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Photo by Pratham Books: Snapshots from Bookaroo 2010 : Children's Literature Festival. Pratham Books is a non-profit children’s book publisher based in India and our mission, while simple, is also rather audacious – “A Book in Every Child’s Hand”. Creative Commons to the rescue.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 21, 2006

The primary need, obviously, in our community, West Oakland, is a lack of access to healthy and affordable foods. Heart disease is the number one killer in the community, and diabetes is number two, and if you combine all of the diet-related chronic diseases that are in the community, it makes up over half of the mortality rate.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

The themes science, environmental, nutrition, economic development, children, youth, parenting, and leadership are very much appropriate as this conference agenda from the NACDEP and ACE/NETC shows. Technorati rapidly index tens of thousands of updates every hour, and monitors live communities and the conversations they foster.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 2, 2013

SOS Children’s Villages International :: @ SOS_Children. SOS Children’s Villages works to stop more than half a million children ending up alone, abandoned or in institutions. 10×10 is global action campaign with a film as its centerpiece.Their message is simply this: Educate girls and you can change the world.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 6, 2007

Kevin Danaher is the co-founder of the nonprofit Global Exchange which co-sponsors the Green Festivals with Co-op America. Kevin talks about the Global Citizen Center, a large mixed use building in downtown San Francisco that will serve as a hub for ecologically and socially responsible enterprise, education and economic development.

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Nonprofits Source

JUNE 4, 2019

This is especially true with the recent scandals surrounding the nonprofit community. For example, algorithms adhere to community guidelines and can block people from viewing your posts if they feel like there has been a violation. According to recent survey data, over 70% of people say they research an organization online.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

While virtual tools make it possible for a far-flung team to work with or for an organization that has global impact, I am reminded about the importance of “face time&# for effectiveness – there is simply no other way to build relationships. Jessica Colaco places books in the iHub Community Library.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 30, 2007

I ended up discovering a program, at New College of California, a couple of years later, when I was producing arts benefits for social change, especially for women and children living with HIV, this was about 1989 and 1990. That there was this notion that the dance community is inherently political, and I thought well, not really.

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Have Fun - Do Good

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 think it's worth it (: Kavita Ramdas: The Global Fund for Women is the largest independent, publicly supported grant-making foundation to advance women's human rights internationally.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 3, 2005

There is something powerful about hearing Barack Obama's voice or the children's voices from the UNICEF podcasts or Nelson Mandela's voice from the recent ONE campaign podcast , inside your head. In doing a little research for this post, I came across the East Side Bloggers 2008 , a blog by 10th graders at East Side Community High School.

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