sgEngage

OCTOBER 9, 2023

On its face, evaluation seems like a neutral activity, designed to help us understand what’s happened, and to change course where needed. For issues with this, check out Vu Le’s 2015 post “ Weaponized data: How the obsession with data has been hurting marginalized communities.” It promotes mutuality instead of extraction.

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Qgiv

MARCH 1, 2023

100-9 which designated the month of March 1987 as “Women’s History Month.” Since 1995, presidents have issued annual proclamations declaring March as Women’s History Month and celebrating the contributions women have made to the United States. This year, the theme has been designated as “Celebrating Women Who Tell Our Stories.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 18, 2017

I dug into the link between the wider theories of capacity development and building strong, resilient nonprofit organizations capable of achieving impact in their communities and on the issues they tackle every day. The Forgotten Roots of Capacity Development in the Movement for Ownership and Empowerment. Tools, Tools, and more Tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

The Google AI Impact Challenge attracted 2,602 applications from six continents and 119 countries, with projects addressing a wide range of issue areas, from education to the environment. . Organizations want to prioritize responsibility but don’t know how. Each area describes the project idea, type of AI technology and data sources.

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Global Giving

APRIL 25, 2020

Do you have a plan for managing issues around ethics, bias, and interpretability? If not designed mindfully, AI can reinforce these problems in many ways. What if you’ve got data and good questions, but don’t have the data science expertise on staff to design and implement a machine learning model, much less maintain it over time?

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Kindful

APRIL 8, 2021

Huge organizations have huge teams and designated employees just for nonprofit public relations and outreach, media connections, and communications. The best stories to pitch the media (or include in any communication materials) have the following: Struggle/Solution : What community/personal issues does your organization address?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 16, 2011

It also takes analyzing competitors and perhaps in the nonprofit sector, understanding the ecosystem or network of organizations working on similar issues. In short, listening is market research. Geoff reminds us that a good positioning statement is simple and dictates messaging used during media interactions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2016

At the workshop they met a group of fantastic young women – girls, really – who are teaching themselves to design mobile apps to address community problems like sexual violence. I’ve been committed to working on technology capacity building for organizations serving Women and Girls empowerment.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 19, 2016

Around the world, organizations face unique challenges when mobilizing their constituents and growing online communities, whether for a cause, an issue, an organization's mission, or a combination thereof. How do you open up a design process that works? How should organizations harness their online communities? unfoundation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

The team’s first planning session should be one of learning about each’s other trade craft versus diving into the design of the session. Next, of course, is diving into the design task of identifying goals and framing for the session and specific roles. The Session Design and Implementation. Orienting the Group.

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Care2

OCTOBER 29, 2012

Cristi Hegranes, Global Press Institute – Global Press Institute (GPI) advances both responsible global journalism and community empowerment by offering journalism training to women around the world.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

This blog post includes some reflections on the instructional design, delivery, and insights that I hope will inform the field building discussion taking place over at the Packard OE Program site. Program Design. With facilitator’s guidance, grantees will design and implement a small action learning project.

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Pakistan NGO Network Exercise 111

Care2

OCTOBER 8, 2012

3 steps for engaging in "empowerment marketing," including identifying your organizational values, telling the truth and being interesting. About the Presenters: Jonah Sachs -- CEO, Free Range Studios Jonah is an internationally recognized storyteller, author, designer and entrepreneur. How to create your own Story Strategy Map.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 25, 2013

The Media and Training Centre for Health specializes in the design and development of community learning models that promote health and empowerment in marginalized communities. The organization focuses on issues that affect South Africans nationwide, such as land reform, housing, refugee law, and environmental rights.

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South Africa Africa Profile Case Study 60

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Under the theme “Achieving Our Vision through Empowerment and Partnerships,” this was the first-ever combined General Assembly of both WBU and the International Council for Education of People with Visual Impairment ( ICEVI ), another world-class organization in the field. One of the biggest issues is digital rights management.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 6, 2014

There, she builds technology that connects local communities to resources that help them solve problems and impact issues. Human trafficking survivors are better able to access the kinds of resources necessary to get safe and stable housing, social services, and economic empowerment. The velocity of learning will be high.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 17, 2012

These apps encourage young people to get involved in civic and political issues. Our Time (Facebook) is a nonprofit dedicated to youth empowerment through the voting process. NetSquared brings nonprofits together with programmers, designers and other business professionals.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 3, 2013

and critical for the inclusion and empowerment of people in developing countries. And how will changing technology impact tactile design, production and use? At Benetech, we agree that braille is an essential literacy tool and that every child who needs it has the right to be taught braille. This is important here in the U.S.,

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 7, 2009

Empowerment is unconditional. Think about mindset, language and skills before you think about tools, features and screen designs. Design to support conversations, relationships, stories - not to organise documents. In user-centred design, everyone is right. Design for real people. People make technology work.

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Tech Soup

MAY 8, 2012

They address high poverty, a huge epidemic of diabetes, the high school dropout rate that is double the American average , and several other issues. in Oklahoma is one of the frontline organizations that addresses these and other issues in a very interesting way – starting with the children. Helping Native Kids, Using Tech.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 12, 2011

It’s very important that you invest the time and resources needed to designing a visually distinct, square avatar that matches the overall branding of your nonprofit. To add images to your blog, create custom tabs on Facebook, and/or design an e-newsletter template, you need to know basic HTML code. Learn Basic HTML.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 9, 2018

Literacy and access to knowledge underpins just about every social good, from education, to economic development, to health, to women’s empowerment, democracy and respect for human rights. Consider the issues with printed books. I’m a big fan of the printed book and always have been. First, they are place-based.

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Tech Soup

MAY 7, 2014

There, she builds technology that connects local communities to resources that help them solve problems and impact issues. Human trafficking survivors are better able to access the kinds of resources necessary to get safe and stable housing, social services, and economic empowerment. Non-traditional Groups, Innovative Ideas.

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New Jersey Proposal Law Empowerment 44

Bloomerang

APRIL 7, 2022

NVF for GPA funds projects across a broad range of issues, including but not limited to: Family planning, Financial services for the poor, Gender equality, Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health (MNCH). The post Funding & Grant Resources For Women’s Empowerment Organizations appeared first on Bloomerang. Areas served: Worldwide.

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Kindful

MARCH 5, 2021

NVF for GPA funds projects across a broad range of issues, including but not limited to: Family planning, Financial services for the poor, Gender equality, Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health (MNCH). The post 2021 Funding & Grant Resources For Women’s Empowerment Organizations appeared first on Kindful. Areas served: Worldwide.

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Empowerment Grant Fund Resource 104

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 19, 2008

From their website: Some of the features that distinguish Hampshire from more traditional liberal arts colleges include student-designed academic concentrations; an active, collaborative, inquiry-based pedagogy; an interdisciplinary curriculum; and a narrative evaluation system. Sounds a lot like Edupunk, doesn’t it? I learned a lot.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 28, 2011

As part of my work this year as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, I’m designing and delivering peer training sessions for grantees all around the theme of social media, learning, and measurement. You can explain complex issues like cap and trade in 140 characters. This year I’m more of [.]

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

This blog post includes some reflections on the instructional design, delivery, and insights that I hope will inform the field building discussion taking place over at the Packard OE Program site. Program Design. With facilitator’s guidance, grantees will design and implement a small action learning project. So stay tuned.

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India NGO Network Exercise 102

Museum 2.0

MARCH 4, 2015

I wrote The Participatory Museum for two reasons: to explore the "how" of participatory design in museums, cultural centers, libraries, and science centers to create a version of this blog that was more "shareable" with organizational leaders and trustees By many measures, the book has been a success. Empowerment? Social bridging?

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NTEN

AUGUST 16, 2011

For the first time, this year's Games for Change Festival created an opportunity for producers of games in development to get live feedback from leading game designers, educators, and funders on the main stage. Ambitious, multi-layered projects like this have the issue of being hard to fund. BOTTOM LINE & FUNDING.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 4, 2016

Focusing in on Local Issues. The city's OpenData goals are to improve city services for residents and businesses, produce jobs, enhance economic opportunities, and increase resident engagement and empowerment. Tackling Global Issues. Open Data San Francisco. Both apps are free and downloadable for iOS and Android.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 28, 2016

In 2007, UNICEF’s creative agency designed an awareness campaign where restaurant customers were encouraged to donate $1 (or more) when ordering tap water (which is typically free). Messaging and design that is both relatable and realistic to your cause will create the emotional connections necessary to take your movement to the next level.

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Teen Social Empowerment Audience 20

Museum 2.0

APRIL 29, 2015

HOW (slides 24-42) There are three “tracks” to our theory of change: individual empowerment, social bonding, and social bridging. Let’s start with empowerment. This might mean taking on a project in our historical archives, starting a studio art practice, or getting involved in local issues and organizations. And so on.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2016

And in several cases, the projects constituted "empowerment lite" for participants rather than true collaboration, co-creation, or transformation. The evaluation additionally called out some faulty assumptions in program design about leadership and staff continuity throughout the multi-year process.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 15, 2010

engagejoe : Hmm…What about ‘using webby tools 2 organize ppl for impact on an array of issues, w/the goal of creating real world change?’ realize_ink : Q3: empowerment & ownership. ehon : Online campaigning – the power offer to stakeholders needs to be designed and executed properly & strategically.

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Campaign Org Social Media Measure 108

NTEN

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

Discover how the power of social sharing can shine a light on a serious issue and poke fun at the inanity of discrimination. Transcending "Social:" Visibility and Empowerment In An Uber-Mega-Meta Self-Conscious Age Speaker: Jianda Johnson, Business and Resource Development Specialist, Guadalupe Montessori School.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

Instead, we wanted a collection of leaders, highly networked in different parts of our County, with their fingers on the pulses of significant community issues and activities. We worked with C3ers at the kickoff workshop to map the issues and communities of greatest interest and connection.

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