Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 1, 2011

Our work has significant impact on users, partners, and the fields of social enterprise, human rights, disability and the environment. We solve social problems that otherwise would not be solved. While respecting individual privacy and our other values, we foster a collaborative work environment through open communication.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 27, 2005

s mission is to address the problem of deforestation in Cambodia, with a focus on educating the public on conservation of natural resources. s environment. My sister was working for an NGO as a volunteer agriculturist in Cambodia and encouraged me to take a job there. Mlup Baitong???s Cross-posted on Global s.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Explores the ecosystem of data for social problem solving and the role philanthropy can play. Argues for engaging in adaptive strategy given the data rich and rapidly changing environment for solving complex social problems. Larry McGill, “ Data for Good.” Alliance Magazine, September 2012. Harvard Business Review, March 2013.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 28, 2013

Energy Conservation Is a Requirement in Africa. Computers are a centerpiece of the school, but they needed super-energy-efficient technology to conserve the scarce electricity. A Multipoint Server system provides an overall cost and energy savings of 66 percent compared to a traditional one-to-one computing environment.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 14, 2011

The world has big problems. Our Environmental team is helping to bring results-based management to the conservation and biodiversity field. [Note: this is part one of seven posts on the Benetech Truths.] We need fresh, original solutions that are better than the status quo. It doesn’t have to be that way.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 1, 2011

The problem is getting worse, as the number of devices built, sold, and thrown away rapidly increases. Having a strong interest in both electronics recycling and IT energy conservation, I like this debate and am glad David Moschella has thrown down the gauntlet.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

Over the past twenty years, the Brainerd Foundation has invested nearly $50 million in organizations working to protect the environment in the Northwest. Nicole Lampe, Resource Media, blogged two summaries based on the ideas and discussion: The Future of Conservation: A Return to Our Roots. New Technology for New Power Movements.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2010

The Accelerator Summit included interactive sessions show casing their programs in these areas: workforce development , employee giving , environment , online safety , and the role of technology in the non-profit community. Or the Web site Microsoft Hohm that lets people calculate their energy footprint and get tips on conservation.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 28, 2013

In every vertical, ranging from the environment to public health, there are hundreds if not thousands of organizations with similar names and missions competing for advocacy, donor, and foundation support. In the last 10 years, the nonprofit sector has grown more than 60 percent in the United States to an estimated 1.5 million organizations.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 13, 2014

That strategy has included targeting women, young professionals and major donors, engaging workplace donors as volunteers, focusing on solving community problems, and “productizing” priority community initiatives to generate new investment opportunities for individuals, corporations and foundations, Brach said.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Every topic we’ve focused on throughout the inaugural season of Force Multiplier has had a single common thread: the imperative for cross-sector collaboration to solve a big problem. The Nature Conservancy Focuses on Local Solutions to Drive Change. Dodging the proverbial bullet is not an option. © Cameron Davidson; May 2019.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

A crowd made up of diverse people with as many perspectives as there are people can, when faced with a question, problem or idea, generate a coalescing of sense and thence a consensus. Whether you agree or disagree with the concept, there’s a fundamental attraction, and empirical evidence, to its utility.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 25, 2007

Let’s start with some examples (many of which were also presented at AAM): The Monterey Bay Aquarium maintains an Ocean Action group that visitors can join to get involved in advocacy for marine life and conservation. The Congo Gorilla Forest , is a special exhibition produced by the Wildlife Conservation Society at the Bronx Zoo.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 21, 2008

Not listening is the root of most problems, personal and professional. National Resource Defense Council asked supporters to upload their photo and post about why they care about the environment. * An Ocean Conservancy member created a Facebook Cause for the organization without telling them.

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Everyaction

DECEMBER 12, 2017

The Corps Network National Conference is an annual gathering of national, state, and local leaders in the fields of youth development, community service, and the environment. Fundraising & Grants / #GEOLearn / @GEOfunders. Fundraising & Grants. YTH / San Francisco, CA / $460. General / #InterActionForum / @interactionorg.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Q: I work in a museum that has a [conservative religious] governing board. Try listing the non-monetary rewards you get from your museum job—doing what you love, autonomy, the environment—and assign a dollar value to those intangibles. Then talked about what we all need to do to make our work environment positive.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 13, 2008

Of all the different things that could be making trash, that was really profound to me because I realized that it's not that big of a problem. So, if that's the small amount of time in which the problem was created. We should be able to undo the problem. I don't think this has anything to do with liberal or conservative.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 30, 2007

An early talk-back in that conservation-minded exhibition asked, 'What can you do to help the environment?' The pledge talk-back was in the context of an exhibition explicitly about conservation controversies (and many visitors responded emotionally to the exhibit rather than making pledges). Video is a whole other animal.

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Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Energy conservation is seen as one of the most important things we can do to fight climate change, and it is – if you use fossil-fuel energy. Conserve your water. Whilst this is important, it’s not actually the biggest change we can make for the environment. For more tips take a look at the Going Zero Waste blog.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

We’ve also learned that the climate crisis is an intersectional issue that exacerbates problems of poverty, negatively affects human rights, and hinders our collective progress towards all 17 of the Sustainable Development Goals. It is a mental health problem that may be prevalent among staff, clients, and other stakeholders.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 11, 2013

The problem: our idea wouldn’t address the real challenge. These opportunities can range from small tasks to extended projects but they all result in enhancements or improvements to open source software being actively used to address social issues such as education, environment, health, and poverty alleviation.

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Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Energy conservation is seen as one of the most important things we can do to fight climate change, and it is – if you use fossil-fuel energy. Conserve your water. Whilst this is important, it’s not actually the biggest change we can make for the environment. For more tips take a look at the Going Zero Waste blog.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 24, 2007

I think there is now lots of evidence to suggest that American consumers are increasingly aware of the world's problems. They're aware that poverty around the world is not diminishing, they're aware that environment degradation is a looming problem. PR: The old approaches to the world's problems aren't working very well.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 5, 2009

But I was also struck by the incredibly conservative object fetishism that underlined her approach. book club around it later this spring to tease out this problem further. Only a small population of people walk into a museum and "feel" the power of the objects without assistance.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

And so fundamentally, it’s you care about this cause because of what you’ve already done in the community, you’ve met some of the people that we felt will inspire others to give, and you’ll solve our community problems or kind of summarizing this. . Harvey: You got a gun problem in America, I think. .

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EveryAction

MARCH 16, 2017

Are you passionate about conservation and environmental causes? Nonprofits like the Nature Conservancy , Union of Concerned Scientists , American Association of University Women , and NRDC do, too. No chase boat, no support, no film crew, no problem. askformore. Rachel Carson. Fund their work! Sheroes in the Arts. Kiara Nirghin.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Craig is a summer associate exploring new applications for Miradi, Benetech’s user-friendly conservation project planning and monitoring software. She’s currently working on “spatial quantile regression” and has learned at Benetech how to use statistics to address real-life problems.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 6, 2021

Now, if I pause for a minute, moment, I’m sure there will be people from animal causes and nature conservancy asking me, “Jen, I am sure that you’re missing something out here. That is the problem that they want to solve. So those are the problems that they want to solve. What is disability? What is teasing?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 21, 2008

We've been developing Miradi for three years together with the Conservation Measures Partnership (which includes groups like The Nature Conservancy and the World Wildlife Fund), and began beta testing the software in 2007. We are poised to grow not only Bookshare.org, but all of our projects. The feedback has been amazing.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

Servicios de la Raza works to assist low-income members of the Denver community and help them overcome a range of problems that result in a lack of resources and perpetuate the cycle of poverty. This allows us to direct more of our donor dollars to protecting the environment." We can't wait to see what round 3 has in store!

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Bloomerang

JULY 31, 2021

We’re sort of in this kind of hybrid environment related to COVID. Even maybe you want to be very conservative and say that for a high ranking, maybe it’s only a 50% chance, and a low ranking is only 10%. Rachel: It’s a good problem to have. You could be more conservative or you have a little bit more risk.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2005

As is my nature, I see a problem and try to solve it. Two years ago my wife and I decided we needed to get out of the rat race of the Bay Area, so we moved to Hawaii where I am now working at The Nature Conservancy starting up an international trade policy and invasive species program. and a bunch of volunteers. What you are doing now?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 13, 2011

Now that we believe we’ve really begun to solve the problem of making the text in books accessible for the 1% of the population with a severe print-related disability, we’re busy thinking about the next frontier. Literacy, human rights and the environment are critically important to the future of humanity. With your help, we will!

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Achieve

AUGUST 6, 2019

As most fundraisers know, the key to getting people to care about a cause is through storytelling that conveys not only the issues, but demonstrates the real-world impact an organization is making to solve problems. Certified humane” requires cage-free and better welfare environments in addition to banning the misuse of antibiotics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

This helps explain the fiscal conservativeness that guides state spending priorities, despite the. Given the challenging environment facing children’s advocates who see the negative consequences of underfunding health and education every day, it is hard to. possible solutions to the problem of intergenerational poverty.

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Non Profit Quarterly

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Facebook, Twitter, and Google have faced attacks from American conservatives due to claims of censorship and bias, even leading to an accusatory tweet from President Donald Trump implying the possibility of regulation. The government now tracks people, apps on phones reveal who you are, where you are.”. They are intrusive,” he added.

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Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

JUNE 11, 2020

Woodland Trust is the UK’s largest woodland conservation charity, working to protect woods, plant trees and restore ancient woodlands. The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds is the UK’s largest wildlife conservation charity , working to protect habitats and restore species, and they’ve been doing it since 1889!

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