Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 7, 2012

This kind of funding is essential for innovation, for responding to time-critical opportunities, prototyping new ideas and getting them to the point where they are a saleable product to customers and/or issue-focused donors. The senior social entrepreneurs in the audience were listening in rapt attention. Where do you find the donors?

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 22, 2015

Helping some of the world’s most impoverished children in Liberia is a complex problem, but ChildFund International receives help from an important partner back in the U.S.: For every pair of trendy shoes that TOMS sells, a pair is donated to a child in need through one of their on-the-ground partner organizations. TOMS Shoes.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 21, 2009

Even though I've had to cut back on a lot of my donations this year, I've continued to sponsor a woman survivor of war each month through Women for Women International. Why am I so focused on this organization?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 17, 2012

On Facebook, people connect with friends, family, their communities and the issues and causes they care about most. I will never forget meeting Leymah Gbowee , the winner of the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize who led the women’s movement resulting in peace in Liberia. Facebook is all about sharing and connecting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 22, 2018

Unicef created its own bot, U-Report ,to engage young people on a variety of issues, ranging from climate change. For example, in Liberia, the bot asked 13,000 young people if teachers at their schools were exchanging grades for sex. But bots can offer companionship and empathy and support to donors and ask for donations.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 2, 2008

To me, that sort of sums up something very special about the way in which we try to make these resources accessible to women-led initiatives that are often some of the most creative that we are seeing on issues ranging from the environment, to health, to education, to building peace and sustainable communities around the world.

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