Saleforce Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Kick off Dreamforce with the Salesforce.org community: thousands of global nonprofits, educators, and philanthropists dedicated to driving change around the world. A company’s success is intertwined with its community impact, especially in today’s distributed workforce. Our movement begins now.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 17, 2021

Increase Collaboration and Engagement for Students, Faculty, and Staff. Arizona State University (ASU), for instance, needed an easier way for its students, faculty, and staff to communicate, share lesson plans, and gather feedback. In addition, workflows help set up students for success with Slack and other learning tools.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2023

“Great leaders are great students, and the world is their classroom,” says Damon Lembi , author of the new book The Learn-It-all Leader. Learn-It-All leaders are constantly creating and re-creating themselves, their companies, and their leadership. They are information extractors.

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The MatrixFiles

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

At a time when higher education is facing public funding cuts, changing demographics and a challenging student debt environment, institutions are facing an uphill battle to sustain enrollments and stay relevant. This translates into the negative national narrative that college isn’t worth it.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 16, 2013

For many years, people frequently suggested that Benetech , the nonprofit tech company I founded and lead, get more involved in Washington, DC policy and legislative action. We didn’t have to convince them that students with disabilities had important needs. Isn’t that where good ideas go to die?” I’d say, dodging the recommendations.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 7, 2020

Since the crisis began, the Association of Corporation Citizenship Professionals (ACCP) has supported hundreds of companies in their effort to effectively deploy their human and financial resources to help those that are most vulnerable in communities. The massive shifts in the food supply chain are further devastating communities.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 18, 2023

If you’re a teacher, parent, or volunteer, you know that coming up with the funding your school needs can be difficult, especially in the midst of global challenges that are out of your control. For example, product fundraising companies now provide customized online stores and in-person forms for hybrid fundraising events.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 18, 2013

Casella, who has worked in special education for 50 years, discussed the different kinds of technology the Bridge School uses with its students. The goal of the program is to develop a sense of independence within the students by giving them as many tools as they need. The Bridge School's work and research has global reach.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Kick off Dreamforce with the Salesforce.org community: thousands of global nonprofits, educators, and philanthropists dedicated to driving change around the world. A company’s success is intertwined with its community impact, especially in today’s distributed workforce. Our movement begins now.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

And while the issue of stable housing isn’t unique to the Bay Area, as a region that’s home to global companies like Levi’s, Facebook, Uber, Apple, and yes, Salesforce, it offers a stark example of just how pervasive the problem is. California State University, East Bay Supports Students Through the Pandemic.

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Candid

JANUARY 6, 2023

Kellogg Foundation This resource helps answer a key question on many leaders’ minds: How can leaders and companies create a culture that embodies a feeling of inclusion and a sense of belonging for all employees? Expanding Equity: Inclusion & Belonging Guidebook , by the W.K.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

APRIL 12, 2021

However, with global sea levels still rising rapidly , biodiversity declining at an alarming rate , and the world’s most vulnerable populations bearing the brunt of the climate crisis, it is clear that the efforts of dedicated environmental nonprofits alone are not enough. From nonprofits like 350.org With a digital-first approach, 350.org’s

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Tech Soup

JUNE 2, 2015

TechHire spans the corporate, nonprofit, government, and educational sectors and has the ambitious goal to "give Americans the opportunity they deserve, and the skills they need to be competitive in a global economy." Equal Employment Opportunity Commission : 80 percent of employees were Caucasian at the tech companies it examined.

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Bloomerang

MAY 6, 2021

I’m not sure even the global scientists, engineers, and futurists have a full sense of where we’re heading with AI. Facebook, which is the dominant social networking platform globally with 2.4 Google, which is the most-used search engine globally, was founded in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while both were Ph.D.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 10, 2013

From Facebook to Netflix, companies are tracking and analyzing our searches, our purchases, and just about every other online activity that will give them more insight into who we are and what we want. That’s what inspired me to start Benetech , a nonprofit tech company, over 20 years ago. Big Data is all the rage in Silicon Valley.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 27, 2021

The growing number of refugees worldwide are part of a global crisis. We also work to uplift and empower the refugee population around the world through workforce development and mentorship programs like Buddyforce and partnerships with Upwardly Global, Mercy Corps, UNHCR, and others. million at the end of 2020. So how can we help?

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 14, 2013

Data Digest is a weekly round-up of the latest news on data-related projects in the nonprofit sector, compiled and authored by Keisha Taylor of GuideStar International and TechSoup Global. This week we learn about the Resilient Africa Network (RAN), which is helping African students use open data for disaster relief.

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Cloud 4 Good

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Dana Genson – Executive Vice President, Services Cloud for Good emerged from 2020 with considerable momentum after exhibiting incredible resiliency in the face of global challenges. Cloud for Good emerged from 2020 with considerable momentum after exhibiting incredible resiliency in the face of global challenges.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 8, 2015

Benetech is hiring new Vice Presidents for our Global Literacy and Human Rights programs. We are Silicon Valley’s deliberately nonprofit software company. Our Benetech Labs is busy looking for the next tech social enterprises that could make similar global impact. You’ve come to the right place: Benetech.

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Forum One

JULY 1, 2021

Last summer, after making the decision to continue our internship program virtually despite the global pandemic, we decided it was important for us to again offer the program virtually. We are halfway through the year and nearly halfway through our 2021 Summer Internship Program at Forum One. Making an impact in 2021.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 10, 2013

The weekend event was organized by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy , Code for America , Random Hacks of Kindness , and many other organizations and companies. The diverse crowd, made up of students, activists, government employees, and librarians, worked on datasets presented by the U.S. Leonard Library.

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Bloomerang

MAY 6, 2022

Boeing Company Charitable Trust. The Awesome Foundation is a global community advancing the interest of “awesome in the universe,” mostly through providing $1,000 micro-grants. They focus funding on organizations that work on financial literacy for elementary and high school students (established programs only). Guitar Center.

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NonProfit Hub

MAY 21, 2019

In today’s world, every company is expected to do some good with their profits. Corporations often engage in cause marketing, a type of corporate responsibility in which companies promote themselves but also the betterment of society. The more a company’s values align with a social cause, the more it leads to economic benefits.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 9, 2018

Turns out that Chris’ mom was the acting CEO of a new software company, “Napster.” As we all know, the record companies ensured this was not the case, forcing Napster to shut down. Together with the World Blind Union and other campaigners, we set out to get a global treaty that would not only replicate the U.S. And, the U.S.

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Cloud 4 Good

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Whatever the disruption, staff, faculty, and students will be called to support and uplift the institution’s mission. Shifts in how education institutions conduct business continually change how we define student success. The goal is to cast a wider net and reach the students who thought college wasn’t for them.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 28, 2022

An important part of what we do at Salesforce.org is to convene those who can push the needle on improving the state of the world, and Davos was an ideal opportunity for us to engage inspiring speakers on pressing issues such as mental health, climate change, inequality, and global health. Jack Harries understands the power of storytelling.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 20, 2013

From my college dorm room, where I thought that pattern recognition could do more than target missiles, to my first successful high tech company where we built technology that could read just about any font without training, to Benetech’s founding with the Arkenstone reading machine for the blind. That was over 24 years ago!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 2, 2015

In 2005 Facebook was only open to college students and professors, Twitter didn’t exist, and the iPhone was still in concept mode. They began actively using Myspace in 2004 and YouTube in 2005 – years before the Fortune 500 companies. Global Giving 2005. Nonprofits pioneered social media. GlobalGiving 2015. hrw.org.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

We see tremendous innovations in social enterprise, but these are merely part of larger, global changes in the ways in which society organizes itself to create public goods. We address the market failure that occurs when the needs of the social sector don’t match the goals that for-profit companies consider worth pursuing.

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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! While the majority of our members are U.S.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 21, 2016

On Monday, July 18, I attended the first ever Partnership Exchange at the UN headquarters to address just that—how we can revitalize and strengthen global partnerships in accordance with SDG #17: “ Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development. The Power of Partnerships.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 17, 2014

As a different kind of Silicon Valley tech company—a nonprofit with a pure focus on social good—our goal is to see that the best of technology gets applied to social needs left unaddressed by for-profit businesses. We called this idea Bookshare , which is now Benetech’s largest Global Literacy initiative. copyright law. In the U.S.,

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 19, 2013

For example, a recent project of hers is Startup Box: South Bronx, or [SB] 2 —a nonprofit startup incubator and tech education center that aims to connect the creativity of the South Bronx with the power of the tech industry by bringing together students, startups and community members. [SB]

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Cloud 4 Good

MAY 5, 2022

Besides allowing prospects to choose what content they receive emails about, EPCs have several other benefits: EPCs help to deflect unsubscribes by giving your prospects the choice to opt out of a specific topic rather than forcing them into the global unsubscribe, where they’ll see none of your content. So, what’s a marketer to do?

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Connection Cafe

MAY 29, 2020

Tim Hill works for Blackbaud, the world’s leading cloud software company supporting social good, including through technology and services for advancement and alumni development across the higher education campus. Scott Roberts is the president of the UConn Foundation, which serves the University of Connecticut.

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Twenty Hats

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

It’s no secret that this was a bumpy transition for many of us, exacerbated by the stress and grief of a global pandemic. They wanted to help students and teachers who were teaching from home that needed curriculum ideas and ways to engage their students in this new virtual environment.”. It wasn’t!

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 26, 2020

In light of that trend and all the recent travel upheaval due to COVID – 19, with increasing restrictions being placed on companies and their global workforce, we wanted to address creative alternatives to traditional volunteer events. . Global Volunteer Programs. There’s an app for that! United Nations : The UN runs a?virtual

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