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. This adaptability isn’t just for people with disabilities: personalized content helps everyone.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

In most cases, the request comes from someone who identifies a social need and believes that technology can help address that need. We don’t build a network of entrepreneurs, but rather function as a sounding board with social sector leaders on how technology could better help their organizations or communities.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 4, 2012

I hope you can take a moment to tell us how donations you've gotten through TechSoup have helped you serve your community. It helps endangered Asian children get off the streets in Cambodia, Philippines, Vietnam, India, Indonesia, Pakistan, East Timor, Jordan, Bangladesh, and Myanmar. " Nonprofit Education in Haiti.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 5, 2010

Although the Clearinghouse and Awards programs could be helpful to the cause of greater access for people with disabilities, I don’t think they truly take on the biggest opportunity for change. Are they intended to inspire students? These encourage students and professors to think about accessibility.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

Autodesk Sustainability Workshop — sustainable engineering and architecture support for educators and students. Autodesk Virtual Agent — a collection of frequently asked questions and helpful download links. TechSoup also offers an FAQ with information about downloading, installation, licensing, and more.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 1, 2006

Mike Connery from OpportunityAgenda shared a fascinating project his nonprofit did in flickr in partnership with students in a media production class. The students had to create an image that was representative of the organization's core values and then create another image that another student could remix.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Every month NetSquared volunteers hold free or low cost educational events for people and organizations who want to use technology for social good. With 50 groups in 20 countries, there's probably a NetSquared group near you (but if there isn't, we'd love to help you start a new meetup ). :-). Image Name: Author / License.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 25, 2007

It also incorporates cc licensed materials from others, including videos and flickr photos. There is so much I'm learning from educators about this, including some of the comments I culled from the Chat from yesterday's Extension webinar: In our 4H Youth Development work, copyright has been a big issue, but this step 8 opens up some things.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 9, 2015

Unlike many other subscription services, Box offers TechSoup members 10 perpetual licenses to the service. This donation also includes GoDaddy's Get Found service, which helps your organization get better visibility on Internet search results. Reading Eggs is an online reading education program, intended for children ages 3 to 13.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 15, 2007

Photo in Flickr - CC "by/nc" license - Mr.GluSniffer. It made me think of the Berkman lecture I heard called " Legal Education in the Networked World " where there was a hot debate about whether laptops in the classroom were a good or bad thing. Read the post from Brian Lamb.

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MARCH 12, 2021

Admissions Connect is a comprehensive new tool from Salesforce.org poised to transform the way recruiting and admissions departments engage with their prospective students in the higher education space. User-Friendly Review Interface.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Guide your students to conversations and resources. Collaboration on student projects or other ways. Or suppose you were leading a program to educate young people about violent behavior in dating relationships. Sometimes it helps to have a colleague or blogging buddy. Research to incorporate in instructional materials.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

I’ve been using databases since I was a grad student in the 80s, and I’ve been designing and developing database-driven applications for the web since 1995. Unlike the others, that are released under varied open source licenses, the code for SQLite is public domain. Be Helpful. I promise (!)

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

I’ve been using databases since I was a grad student in the 80s, and I’ve been designing and developing database-driven applications for the web since 1995. Unlike the others, that are released under varied open source licenses, the code for SQLite is public domain. Be Helpful. I promise (!)

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 20, 2006

Urban Sprouts teaches youth to grow, harvest, prepare, and eat vegetables from the school garden in order to help them to become more engaged in school, eat better, exercise more, and connect with the environment and each other. And then it also helps them succeed in school in other ways.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 5, 2017

Its Energy Smart for Kids program teaches students throughout the state how to lead a more energy-efficient lifestyle. At the end of each session, EWA volunteers hand out energy-efficiency starter kits so students can apply what they learned at home. Aside from schools, EWA also helps nonprofits become more sustainable.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 12, 2007

I think that of advocates need to have open source technology stewards behind them to be successful -- there is a need for stewards to guide the choices, training, translators -- to help nonprofits adopt open source software. or similar) licensing. " This calls to mind a debate in the educator community.

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sgEngage

AUGUST 15, 2023

Collect as much information as you think you will need to make educated funding decisions. Building custom fields could also enable, for example, grouping scholarship recipients by SAT or ACT scores, GPA, and other information that would be specific to students. Keeping your data up to date is also key to effective communication.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 13, 2012

It also helps with recruiting employees, volunteers, and donors! Our users depend on us to get things right, whether it’s protecting human rights information from attackers, ensuring a student has an accessible textbook in time for school, or guiding an environmentalist in the best ways to deploy their limited resources.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 17, 2012

Darius Graham | Social Innovation Project | Washington, DC The Social Innovation Project tackles pressing social issues by providing seed funding and resources to help transform ideas into sustainable programs. provides a 12-week afterschool program and 4-month paid apprenticeship wellness program for low-income high school students.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 17, 2015

Some of the passions written were arts, education, animals, domestic violence, dance, family, health and wellness, abused children, boy scouts, environment and many others. I shared that I have the opportunity to figure out ways to help people understand the work that we do and why it’s important. Education about philanthropy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

This issue is so massive that it is going to take an ongoing effort from many different angles -- educatiing young people with help from teachers and parents as well as everyone who is using the Internet now - to model good behavior and continue to the dialogue around this. SHARE - Plan to show this video to your students.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 29, 2006

The slogan is "Green Collar Jobs, not Jails" and what we're trying to promote a big vision which includes being able to employ formerly incarcerated people from the Oakland area, "at risk" -- quote unquote -- people from this area into jobs which don't hurt the environment, that actually help sustain us as a community. Do not isolate.

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