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. 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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

The initiative brings together an array of existing, new and enhanced global programs and partnerships that connect young people with better education, employment and entrepreneurship opportunities. Peter has extensive international experience in Latin America and Africa and discussed the problems and solutions he sees from the ground.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 1, 2015

Technology CSR teams have pioneered programs globally to provide access to technology. TechSoup is an international network of more than 60 NGOs that leverages technology to build nonprofit capacity and help solve social problems locally and globally. Over the same period, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) teams have grown.

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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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Global Giving

APRIL 25, 2020

But by using modern computer processors to perform these calculations at high volumes, data scientists can create models capable of solving complex problems. What kinds of problems can machine learning solve? If not designed mindfully, AI can reinforce these problems in many ways. Learn about DataRobot’s AI for Good program.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 19, 2016

Serving 236 countries and territories, TechSoup is an international network of 63 NGOs that leverages technology to build nonprofit capacity and help solve social problems locally and globally. SocialGood has more than 40,000 fans, followers, and members, representing over 140 countries. unfoundation. spanhidden

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 23, 2022

Empowerment is the greatest form of impact. According to the Annual Volunteer Survey, 96% of those who do pro bono projects say they gain skills — including leadership, team building and problem solving — which are all crucial to career growth. Whatever happens in our communities — locally and globally — affects us all.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

As a firm, our family of 2,600 professionals across 17 global offices engages in volunteer opportunities throughout the Americas, Europe, and Asia. With an aim to take on some of the world’s greatest problems and our commitment to leaving no one behind, we’ve concentrated our work specifically on two of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 3, 2013

Guest Beneblog by Betsy Beaumon, VP and General Manager, Benetech’s Global Literacy Program. That’s why braille is an important focus for us in Benetech’s Global Literacy Program — we know that we must keep braille relevant and make it more available. This allows a much broader group of experts to keep working on the problem.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2010

Ed Granger-Happ, Nethope; Claire Bonilla, Disaster Response Microsoft; Daniel Ben-Horin, TechSoup Global, Vida Durant, CARE USA. Microsoft researchers are collaborating with the academic community on environmental problems, such as aggregation and visualization of complex scientific data from many sources. We need leverage points."

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

young people are developing their own creative solutions to problems. Organizations are helping to facilitate these conversations and learnings globally. participants through identifying a problem and developing a. of the MacArthur Foundation's Digital Media and Learning global. technological solution.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Our Time (Facebook) is a nonprofit dedicated to youth empowerment through the voting process. ClassTalk was made through Code for America , a nonprofit that connects app developers with civic leaders to solve city problems. The app was a finalist in Microsoft's 2011 Imagine Cup, a student technology competition. Apps Made by Youth.

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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 next step in the process?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 23, 2007

The event here in Zurich is the Schwab Social Entrepreneur Summit, where roughly a hundred social entrepreneurs get together with global leaders to advance the movement. On Monday we were joined by a dazzling array of global leaders who are interested in social entrepreneurship.

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Tech Soup

JULY 8, 2011

by Dinesh Venkateswaran, Manager - Global Data Acquisitions, TechSoup Global. most fundamental problems that people in less favourable environments. should enable power in members and facilitate a global impact of highly local activity.” This was first posted on the GuideStar International blog. projects.

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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. Caravan Studios, a division of TechSoup Global, entered its app SafeNight into the ReImagine: Opportunity Challenge. This post was written by Marnie Webb, who leads TechSoup's newest division, Caravan Studios.

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NTEN

AUGUST 25, 2009

It's the definite article that causes problems, implying there's an easy way to think about the issues surrounding the inequitable access to technology -- and perhaps an easy solution. Setting aside the problems with his numbers -- he notes that "While only 3.6% Brett Meyer, NTEN. The digital divide doesn't exist.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 28, 2006

She is the co-founder and co-director of Women's Global Green Action Network , a nonprofit that cultivates global partnerships of grassroots women environmental leaders by providing access to communication tools, support services and networking capabilities. Below is a transcript of an interview with her from the Big Vision Podcast.

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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. Empowerment is the “individual” side of our theory of change. If you want to have impact, if you want to change the world, you have to work on an important problem.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

If you don't have a local group (I can help fix that problem! ), there are also free online guides and a global Twitter chat October 5 using the hashtag #storymakers2017. Mahikeng, South Africa: Rural Tech Empowerment. Bristol, United Kingdom: Tech4Good Global Development. Saturday, September 9, 2017.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 25, 2014

Nonprofit Quarterly quoted president Global Healthy Living Foundation, Seth Ginsberg, on the affect on charities: “The transformative power of Facebook — like the popularity of the site itself — is neither preordained nor guaranteed going forward. The problem this new law addresses is that last year an estimated 3.1

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 3, 2007

After the call I started wondering, "How do you activate more people to contribute to the solution of a problem that is so horrific it paralyzes people into inaction?" Keeping campaigns simple, social, personal, creative and tangible might transform feeling overwhelmed into empowerment. million nonprofits in the U.S. Make it simple.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Images of Empowerment. To address this need, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, in partnership with the David and Lucile Packard Foundation and Getty Images, created Images of Empowerment. Images of Empowerment was created in 2015 and was extended in 2018. Grand Challenges Awards Repository.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 19, 2009

After meeting her at the Global Engagement Summer last spring, I knew I wanted to grab her for an interview before she became too famous. Erickson founded FORGE (Facilitating Opportunities for Refugee Growth and Empowerment) in 2003 when she was a 20 year-old junior studying public policy at Stanford University. I get that.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 2, 2007

Part two talks about understanding the challenges.Foundations take on the biggest and gnarliest social problems (if the problems could be easily solved, the private sector or governments would have already figured them out.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2012

“Anyone who works for the State Department knows that they work for women and for the advancement and empowerment of women,” said Alec Ross , Secretary Clinton’s Special Advisor for Innovation, with pride at the opening of TechCamp Tel Aviv. Technology does not solve problems. Technology alone does not solve problems.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 25, 2008

The Women of Color Resource Center has been around for a little over 17 years and we are a pretty impressive place, I think, because we are one of the very few places in the nation, and globally, that holds the interest of women of color, and girls of color as a central piece of our work. What can people do to change that?

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Non Profit Quarterly

MARCH 2, 2022

Similarly, there has been a global rise of worker-managed platform cooperatives in response to the rise of platform companies. The global financial crisis in 2008 also led labor unions to re-imagine new partnerships with various worker cooperatives, both in and out of the platform economy. million on political lobbying, and another $1.8

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JULY 12, 2022

Before the global pandemic, intergenerational poverty and entrenched patterns of inequality dampened the future livelihoods of millions of children and their families across the globe. Established in 2015, CRUS is an independent global grantmaking sister organization to UK-based Comic Relief, which was founded in 1985.

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EveryAction

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Black Women For Wellness is committed to the health and well-being of Black women and girls through health education, empowerment and advocacy. org is building a global grassroots climate movement that can hold our leaders accountable to the realities of science and the principles of justice. Black Women For Wellness.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 28, 2007

She is donating 100 percent of the royalties from the book to the Global Fund for Women. These are grassroots organizations, and they were helping each other with the most intractable problems that face women everywhere: domestic violence, sex trafficking, disease, discrimination. Paola Gianturco: My name is Paola Gianturco.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 29, 2009

The idea is now that we're getting stronger and more flexible, more conscious, more patient, and more aware, we need to take those very qualities that we're learning in the yoga room, and begin to truly apply them in our families, in our local community, and into our global family as well. I knew that the work that I was doing was effective.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 2, 2008

Kavita Ramdas, President and CEO, Global Fund for Women. Kavita Ramdas is the President and CEO of the nonprofit, the Global Fund for Women. I think it's worth it (: Kavita Ramdas: The Global Fund for Women is the largest independent, publicly supported grant-making foundation to advance women's human rights internationally.

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