Tech Soup

MAY 3, 2017

Upwardly Global, also known as "UpGlo," is working to combat this disparity. Although that plant was considered a model employer for refugees at the time, Jane met employees who included a former engineer from Iraq and a surgeon from Bosnia. Meghan Lewit is Upwardly Global's senior associate for marketing communications.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Organizations should commit to not using AI for the purpose of driving workers to higher levels of productivity at the cost of well-being. It is convening groups to work on a comprehensive global standard-setting process to provide AI with a strong ethical basis that protects human rights and dignity. AI in the Humanitarian Sector .

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Saleforce Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Once a year, the global nonprofit community comes together to collaborate, share best practices, and connect at Dreamforce. The new system allows them to visualize their logic model in action across programs in 24 offices in 14 countries. Last, but certainly not least, we couldn’t miss thanking our global community and partners.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 18, 2016

Social enterprise models may well offer an answer. Should nonprofits become more aggressive in adopting new business models that can add needed revenue? What are the downsides and dangers in pursuing new models? These social enterprise efforts can add a business model by creating sustainable revenue.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 25, 2022

Many forces have exacerbated the need for nonprofits to shift their focus to employee well-being, including the global pandemic, economic uncertainty, the wealth gap and racial injustice. According to Sarros, Cooper and Santaro, encouraging leadership in others promotes staff well-being and leads to increased productivity.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 22, 2023

Not surprising, managers at every level are struggling to adapt to this new dynamic, balancing both employee satisfaction and corporate productivity. Not only do those mental models not apply, but they also become a liability in a changed world. Those models, now, are a liability rather than a guide.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 6, 2017

When nonprofits invest in creating physical spaces that inspire employees to show up for work, staff is more engaged, productive, happy, and healthy. Such spaces offer great benefits for collaboration, transparency, knowledge sharing, learning, creativity, and team building. But there are challenges, too.

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Classy

APRIL 20, 2021

A: I began my career working at the nonprofit that runs Fair Trade, a global movement that makes sustainable development goals a reality. I led their core Certification operation and launched the Global Producer Services group. From there, I joined the team at Salesforce when there was only one product.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

At its heart, the Equity Guide makes requests of two audiences: nonprofits that are engaging with technology at the staff, leadership, and application development levels; and the commercial technology industry that serves nonprofits with products, services, and solutions. This is genuinely a good thing.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Apply Pressure to Limit Global Warming to 1.5 For example, humanitarian organisations like Oxfam are delivering disaster relief to people whose homes have been destroyed by severe weather, innovating drought-resistant agricultural crops, and training farmers in new techniques to improve the resilience of local and global supply chains.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 24, 2014

The Basic Registry of Identified Global Entities (BRIDGE) is a new collaborative project that aims to revolutionize information sharing, in order to better understand the flows of philanthropic dollars and enhance transparency and effectiveness in the global social sector. First Globally Unique IDs Are Issued.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

APRIL 15, 2021

In the global shift to digital over the past year, there’s now more data to protect and manage. We are excited to collaborate with Salesforce.org to help nonprofits and education institutions leverage their assets in a data lake with Tableau and analytics.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2014

I have disruptive approaches to social innovation in mind, with an increasingly connected society where the cost of prototyping and deploying new products is extremely low, and where innovation is no longer the sole purview of well-funded for-profit corporations. The time has never been better to think 10X bigger!

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

I was delighted when Ron Schultz invited me to collaborate with him on his latest book Creating Good Work – The World’s Leading Social Entrepreneurs Show How to Build a Healthy Economy. We are always exploring new projects with the hope of launching a new product each year. Our lower cost model allowed us to invert the power structure.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Getting started: The nonprofit tools you need to set up shop and grow your organization TechSoup is a global nonprofit organization that offers discounts and technology solutions as well as IT consulting and courses to nonprofits. You will also need Office 365 for key products like Word and Excel.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2006

So, I wonder what collaborative thinking through our fingers might look like when it comes to capturing and sharing notes from conferences, dialogs, meetings or informal gatherings. This model can also be scaled to an entire blog community platform. What is the right amount of "post production" or editing of the material?

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AccelEvents

APRIL 23, 2021

When building your event marketing strategy, keep in mind that there are several advantages to hosting an online component at your physical event, including: Greater reach by tapping into potentially global markets. Hybrid events require a lot of production planning up-front. Strategy #6- Encourage Collaboration With Venue Partners.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 15, 2012

I’m excited to contribute to this topic in honor of the multitudes who work together to make a difference in the world through Bookshare, a global asset we have built with joint efforts of education, technology, publishing, student, parent, and volunteer communities. Our lower cost model allowed us to invert the power structure.

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AccelEvents

APRIL 23, 2021

When building your event marketing strategy, keep in mind that there are several advantages to hosting an online component at your physical event, including: Greater reach by tapping into potentially global markets. Hybrid events require a lot of production planning up-front. Strategy #6- Encourage Collaboration With Venue Partners.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 3, 2013

Guest Beneblog by Betsy Beaumon, VP and General Manager, Benetech’s Global Literacy Program. That’s why braille is an important focus for us in Benetech’s Global Literacy Program — we know that we must keep braille relevant and make it more available. And how will changing technology impact tactile design, production and use?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

Note from Beth: My colleague, Daniel Ben-Horin, from TechSoup Global has been in the nonprofit technology for decades. But when he gets excited about activity that could benefit the nonprofit technology sector, I listen. What do you think of the Campus Party model? He has seen it all. And like Bar Camps , people hack.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 21, 2014

Opportunities to test ideas or products. A 2013 study commissioned by Global Impact found that "corporations seek nonprofit partners that align with their own philanthropic and business goals in the following categories: mission (77 percent), geographic footprint (51 percent), and focus area (40 percent).

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AccelEvents

DECEMBER 10, 2020

One of the best ways to showcase new tech designs and products is through an industry event. Microsoft’s annual developer conference is usually held in-person and used as a way of bringing developers in the community together and getting them excited for new product updates. . Microsoft Build. HPE Discover Virtual Experience.

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Classy

APRIL 27, 2021

To prevent burnout from taking over your nonprofit’s culture, passion, and productivity, you have to understand it. That’s especially true coming off of a year defined by a global pandemic, social justice movements, and a tense presidential election. Don’t Miss the Chance to Hear From Them live. Get Registered Now for Free.

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Classy

APRIL 29, 2021

Brings a strategic focus on addressing the policies and systems that perpetuate global poverty . Global CTO, Tech for Social Impact. Global Movement.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 19, 2009

NetSquared’s Global Community Builder , Amy Sample Ward, will be at the NTC this year to connect and collaborate with friends, colleagues and new faces in the sector. Come by the TechSoup Global booth in the expo area for Office Hours with me! I’ll be presenting the slides below: Local is the new Global.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 15, 2010

I worked for the Chalkboard Project fresh out of university, a nonprofit organization founded and fueled by Foundations for a Better Oregon, a coalition of foundations in Oregon focused on collaborating to make a meaningful impact to issues in Oregon – in the case of the Chalkboard Project, that focus was on public education reform.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 19, 2015

WORTH Trust uses a two-pronged model that addresses challenges faced by people with different abilities at various levels. Production units run by the trust manufacture high-quality industrial components, affordable mobility aids, and assistive devices. Success Through Collaboration: NASSCOM Foundation Partners with TechSoup.

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AccelEvents

DECEMBER 10, 2020

One of the best ways to showcase new tech designs and products is through an industry event. Microsoft’s annual developer conference is usually held in-person and used as a way of bringing developers in the community together and getting them excited for new product updates. . Microsoft Build. HPE Discover Virtual Experience.

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.orgSource

JANUARY 22, 2024

Empathy is what helps identify members’ needs and provide products and services that contribute to their well-being and professional success. By designing systems, products, and services from the perspective of their human users, we can compensate for, and even exceed, what might be accomplished in a person-to-person transaction.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

We recently wrapped up our first fully virtual and truly global conference,? Fundraising during a global pandemic . Regardless of whether it’s new technology, a new staffing model, or even a small adjustment to a process, adoption and success can hinge on keeping a focus on the human element of the change. bbcon 2020.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

Nonprofits are going to become more reliant on enablers like AI and quantum modeling, which will drive everything from financial models to marketing campaigns to donor engagement. The collaboration and innovative thinking around building a better world I saw at Davos this year encouraged me.

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

Though we do our best to respond to requests, unlike the Shell Answer Man, we are not fueled by the research and marketing budget of a global oil company. We are committed to these research products because of their high demand and utility toward an understanding of nonprofits and philanthropy in Arizona.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

For background: The first industrial revolution occurred when water and steam were harnessed to mechanize production. The second came through using electric power to drive mass production. The third revolution happened as electronics and information technology automated production.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 14, 2009

In the larger view of systemic change, storytelling takes on an even bigger role, where a well-told story creates a shared experience and helps illuminate all factors (root cause and symptomatic) that effect social change efforts at both global and local levels, creating a comprehensive, connected, “best practice” view of achieving progress.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

There are several areas to target for increased collaboration: Human Resources, Marketing, Communications, Executive Team. Team members who feel part of a community at work are more productive. Productive employees are the top talent, increasing market share and revenue. Human Resources. Reducing turnover reduces costs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2009

The 2009 NMC Symposium for the Future , the fourteenth in the NMC’s Series of Virtual Symposia (October 27-29th), will explore actual and potential applications of technology that could impact issues of global importance over the next five years and beyond. Jerry talked one benefit of this connectedness and openness is innovation.

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