Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 9, 2008

Like many of the agencies we visited, China is also experiencing a significant increase in kids with multiple disabilities. We enjoyed getting a chance to chat with a couple of the students who were impressively fluent. Students and staff all get the chance to experience massages at the hands of the trainees.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 7, 2008

After a wonderful final banquet with our Hadley China hosts, we got up early to head to Beijing. The first disability group we visited was the China Disabled Persons' Federation , which is the main national group. Many of Hadley China students are massage therapists trying to upgrade their skills by speaking English.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 6, 2008

When we arrived the students were gathered to greet us. We arrived in China just at the end of the Paralympics. Turns out, three students of the school were on the silver-medal winning blind soccer team (the Paralympic site described it as Football 5-a-Side ). Our first stop was the Fuzhou School for the Blind.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 22, 2013

Feng Shui is an ancient art and science developed many years ago in China. The event kicks off a semester long internship for students working with nonprofits. So, expect to see regular reflections on good instructional design and delivery for any topic, but especially technology related.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

By providing students with funds for school supplies, coats, eye care, class trips, test fees, and athletic gear, InvestED has encouraged over 16,500 youngsters to stay in school in the state of Washington. Every year, birth defect rates and the percentage of children with special needs entering institutional care in China has increased.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 19, 2015

While there are larger numbers of Gen Z in India, China, and Nigeria compared to UK or US, they are truly a global organization. And there is Jack Andraka , a high school student who got obsessed with finding a cure for cancer and created a test that can detect pancreatic cancer. They are not content to just sit and click.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Just distill the message you want to test down to a Facebook ad, and then run that ad against various groups: married women over 40, students living in Washington and Oregon, Canadian kayakers and so forth. You can’t use this tactic in China, for example, where Facebook (and Twitter, among other social media channels) is blocked.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 17, 2007

According to their site: "The International Olympic Committee (IOC) awarded Beijing the 2008 Olympic Games in 2001, disregarding international criticism of China's human rights record. Both the IOC and the Chinese have argued that the Games will "improve human rights in China" and therefore Tibet.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 4, 2012

This charity also has offices in India , Nepal , and Tanzania operates its own projects and supports partners in Tanzania, India, and Nepal and works on behalf of children in places like the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Pakistan, Peru, Cambodia, China, and Bangladesh. It has just 20 UK-based staff.

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 16, 2015

While there are larger numbers of Gen Z in India, China and Nigeria compared to UK or US, they are truly a global organization. And there is Jack Andraka , a high school student who got obsessed with finding a cure for cancer and created a test that can detect pancreatic cancer. They are not content to just sit and click.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 19, 2011

For example: SAP continues to invest in their University Alliances program , which provides technology and expertise to educate students throughout the world and cultivate new IT leaders. You can, according to Wired , “compare the population across Europe and North America with the growing bubble in China. 'We’re

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sgEngage

JULY 6, 2011

On the other hand, a college in that same town which attracts international students could successfully make a case to its foreign alumni. Only about a quarter of the world’s wealthiest people live in North America and China is projected to be home to the world’s largest population of millionaires by 2013.

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Forum One

JUNE 18, 2009

how do you evaluate the health significance of "one glass of rice wine per day" in China vs. Japan?). The conversation touched on various dimensions of the data-collection issue: The challenge of cultural assumptions embedded in standard health surveys (what is "jogging", exactly?

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 4, 2012

continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit scholar, student, or professional to. Close behind are China ($12.2 posted by Pat Lewis , Senior Professional. in Residence. ASU Lodestar Center. Welcome to Research Friday ! As part of a. highlight current research reports or studies and discuss how they can. receiving $22.2

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Care2

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

Sometimes, this even included an army of college students going door-to-door, ICU nurses convincing hospital staff to join, businessmen calling meetings to let their employees know about the contest, and other offline work. Their Causes page garnered over $94,000 from 6,268 members in 50 days. How did they do it? Oh the hours!!

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Care2

FEBRUARY 13, 2008

Sometimes, this even included an army of college students going door-to-door, ICU nurses convincing hospital staff to join, businessmen calling meetings to let their employees know about the contest, and other offline work. Their Causes page garnered over $94,000 from 6,268 members in 50 days. How did they do it? Oh the hours!!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

Social Media and Nonprofits Anshe Chung Studios in China has been quietly building a Second Life space, managed by TechSoup, for non-profits. This month, the Horizon Wikispace , where teams of students and teachers from around the globe are discusisng and creating what impact of these six emerging technologies in the classrooms.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

We serve over 150,000 students with disabilities alone with free online services funded by the Department of Education (however, nothing contained in this post has anything to do with our funders). starting to act more like China than the home of the free. Bookshare is an online library for people who can’t read standard print books.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 8, 2011

We serve over 150,000 students with disabilities alone with free online services funded by the Department of Education (however, nothing contained in this post has anything to do with our funders). starting to act more like China than the home of the free. Bookshare is an online library for people who can’t read standard print books.

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Care2

DECEMBER 3, 2011

If Facebook were a country, it would rank at third most populated country after China and India. The fastest growing segment of social networking users is college age students. YouTube has 20%. Will Google+ shake things up? Yes, FB would beat the US.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2006

She lived in China for 8 months with her 2 young children. She chronicles the program's start up on her personal blog ) She shares why she started her NGO, "The economic situation is far worse in Kenya than China so volunteer teachers were the only option. Ali is the Founder of AVIF (ABLe Volunteers International Fund).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2015

The students are an audience they want to reach.He That it wasn’t blocked in China because the Chinese Government appreciates how well it works as a professional networking tool. As an example, he showed an example of a Harvard page on giphy , a platform to share animated gifs – why would Harvard be there?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 12, 2009

In one day, more than 20 students from 6 universities and five AIDS organizations hit the streets with only cellphone video cameras to produce 8 short video messages to encourage youth to be tested for HIV. As a result, over 44,000 student applied in 1.5 Centers for Disease Control and the University of Georgia’s New Media Institute.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 1, 2006

Among the videos up right now is footage of police dispersing student protestors in China, UCLA police using a taser gun on a student in a library, and video shot by journalist Brad Will during the protests in Oaxaca, right before he was killed. You can check out the pilot project on the Global Voices blog here.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 24, 2013

The leaders in adoption are China, India, Indonesia, Iran, Russia, Nigeria, the Philippines, Brazil, and Mexico. billion smartphone subscribers in the world; the majority of them are in China. It is a China-based company that now has merchandise sales volume that is more than Amazon and eBay combined. The Internet in 2013.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 23, 2006

It was founded in 2001 by a group of college students from all over the world who wanted to ensure that “Never Again” became a reality rather than a rhetorical sound bite. Since then, the network has grown to include hundreds of members residing in the UK, Rwanda, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Burundi, China, and Canada.

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