article thumbnail

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. But as Daniel Ben-Horin said, “Our theory of change states that software products are necessary, but not sufficient for empowerment of social change organizations.

Network 103
article thumbnail

The Global Fund for Women: An Interview with Kavita Ramdas

Have Fun - Do Good

How do you know that you are making a difference or an impact; how do you measure that? The Global Fund tries to measure those results, not so much by our own standards, but by the standards that the groups that we support set for themselves. For them, that was a measure of change and a measure of impact.

Global 44