Givinga

JANUARY 26, 2021

COVID-19 showcased the huge opportunity for companies, on a global scale, to play a more pronounced, proactive and impactful role, through impact innovation. We helped LIVELY formulate a list of 10 charities that promote social justice through a variety of areas including legal, advocacy and women’s empowerment.

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Twenty Hats

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

It’s no secret that this was a bumpy transition for many of us, exacerbated by the stress and grief of a global pandemic. As we continue our analysis of the focus groups in the coming months, we aim to weave these stories into a deeper understanding of the evolving role of technology in volunteer management.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MARCH 30, 2022

A recent Harvard Business Review article on this topic says that “empowerment, engagement, and planning are critical. Smart tech can also play a role by streamlining workflow, using chatbots to provide information to the public, and improving worker health and safety by encouraging screen breaks and supporting work-life balance.

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Everyaction

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

Created in 1998, the United Nations Foundation links the United Nations' work with others around the world, helping the UN address a range of global issues, including climate change, global health, women’s empowerment, peace and security, poverty eradication, and more.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

With this in mind, we recently took measures to evolve our community engagement platform, giving people access to a broad set of tools to help them engage and build purpose beyond their day-to-day roles. We partner with the Global Food Banking Network (GFN). We also work with local food banks across each of our global offices.

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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’s technology capacity work in the nonprofit technology sector includes partnerships with Tech Soup Global , NetHope in disaster relief as well as others.

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Classy

APRIL 27, 2021

That’s especially true coming off of a year defined by a global pandemic, social justice movements, and a tense presidential election. A: With many nonprofit leaders holding multiple hats and roles in their organizations, we constantly hear that they are exhausted. Compassion fatigue is real.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

For health and safety, or simply because programs and services are not operating, many volunteer roles across all three types of non-profits have been suspended. From discussions with our global networks, these dynamics are experienced throughout the developed world. Many volunteers have also stepped back due to health concerns.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Our Time (Facebook) is a nonprofit dedicated to youth empowerment through the voting process. The Global Kids Online Leadership Organization partnered with the New York Public Library to create a mobile game called NYC Haunts for the iPhone. The app was a finalist in Microsoft's 2011 Imagine Cup, a student technology competition.

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Forum One

MAY 17, 2010

Speakers included Pradeep Ramamurthy , the National Security Council's Senior Director for Global Engagement and Farouk Shami , a Palestinian-American businessman, who founded a large Houston-based company that produces hair-care and spa products.

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Tech Soup

JULY 8, 2011

by Dinesh Venkateswaran, Manager - Global Data Acquisitions, TechSoup Global. should enable power in members and facilitate a global impact of highly local activity.” role of technology in these initiatives varied largely, but there was. one thing common to them – the huge role of people in powering the.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 19, 2015

Not only does WORTH work towards creating a barrier-free world for the physically challenged, it does this work with the help of people who have different abilities, creating a circle of empowerment. NASSCOM Foundation's BigTech donations program, run in partnership with TechSoup Global , aims to support the work of NGOs such as WORTH.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 20, 2006

--Anne Firth Murray While on vacation I read several books, but the one that stood out the most was Paradigm Found: Leading and Managing for Positive Change by Anne Firth Murray, the founder of the Global Fund for Women.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

We'll offer an online program for change, support a global community of practice, and keep expanding the program based on community input. With OF/BY/FOR ALL, we're playing a role in this ecosystem as an accelerant for organizational change. The model we landed on was movement building.

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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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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. Morogoro, Tanzania: Role of ICT for Farm Management. Bristol, United Kingdom: Tech4Good Global Development.

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NTEN

AUGUST 25, 2009

While it's possible to argue that the role money plays in the persistence of digital inequality is diminishing , it is difficult. Bharat Mehra claims, in New Media & Society , that "The internet has tremendous potential to achieve greater social equity and empowerment and improve everyday life for those on the margins of society."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2007

MacArthur Foundation hosted its first discussion in Second Life to explore the role that philanthropy might play in virtual worlds. We're trying a year of conversation about how to enter the culture in Second Life and the role of philanthropy. Here's a few: Question: What role do you see MacArthur in building credible information?

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Images of Empowerment. A common need for these efforts is how to tell the story of the roles women around the world play today in decision-making, income earning, and accessing and using reproductive health care information and services. . Images of Empowerment was created in 2015 and was extended in 2018.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 20, 2023

When your nonprofit is new, young, or small, finding volunteers and plugging them in to a role they enjoy can be tricky. Some recognizable days of service are National Volunteer Week, Global Youth Service Day, Martin Luther King Jr. But it can be done. And if these are tasks you can take off YOUR plate, awesome!

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 17, 2015

As a representative of an organization with a global mission, it is important that I am a citizen of the world who is well-traveled, well-informed, and can converse with absolutely anyone. To cap it all off, after the conference, I spoke with the organizer and let her know that I would be interested in presenting at future conferences.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 7, 2015

As a representative of an organization with a global mission, it is important that I am a citizen of the world who is well-traveled, well-informed, and can converse with absolutely anyone. To cap it all off, after the conference, I spoke with the organizer and let her know that I would be interested in presenting at future conferences.

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Prior to this role, Elena had worked in the global financial services industry for more than 20 years. Elena Zee is President and CEO of the Arizona Council on Economic Education. She is a graduate of the American Express Leadership Academy at the ASU Lodestar Center ’s Class VII and Valley Leadership’s Class 40.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 25, 2008

Desai came to the Women of Color Resource Center from a Deputy Director role at United for a Fair Economy. military policies globally, not just what's happening with women domestically. We are based in Oakland, but we do work nationally, and in many cases globally, but our funding is always under constraints.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

Ok, now add to the mix a liberal dose of several years of strong economic growth and modernization, a GDP ranked 17 th in the world, a youth population (12 to 24 year olds) representing a third of the total population, and a growing reputation as one of the most promising IT sectors globally, and do you know where that will land you?

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Prior to this role, Elena had worked in the global financial services industry for more than 20 years. Elena Zee is President and CEO of the Arizona Council on Economic Education. She is a graduate of the American Express Leadership Academy at the ASU Lodestar Center ’s Class VII and Valley Leadership’s Class 40.

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Bloomerang

MAY 14, 2021

But given the current global uncertainty, are you finding added stresses to your job, worrying about what might be tomorrow or in the coming months? Is it going to give me what I’m looking for in my next role or not? If you want to answer the one or two people who had comments about it, please do. Mimosa: Absolutely.

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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. As some of the most powerful civic institutions that exist in this country, labor unions have long played a critical role in improving the wages and living conditions of workers.

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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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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 28, 2007

She is donating 100 percent of the royalties from the book to the Global Fund for Women. Britt Bravo: In so many of the groups you profiled, the women were using the arts for education, empowerment, or healing. BB: Can you talk a little bit about the relationship between the Global Fund for Women and this book?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 29, 2010

From the global to the local, here are #10Ways geolocation is a positive force for good. It has revolutionized communications on a global scale, and the transformation continues with every status update, blog post, and video stream. The global citizenry has become a global network. Social media has changed the world.

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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. How do you shift roles? Who is the note taker?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

It’s the week of the United Nations General Assembly and the Clinton Global Initiative. Sulaiman Madada, Uganda's Minister of State for Gender, Labour and Social Development The conference was ably keynoted by Professor Ruth Okediji, who played a key role in negotiating the Marrakesh Treaty on behalf of the African delegations.

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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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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 29, 2006

How do we stop violence and how do we eradicate poverty in our communities, and uplift people, and how do we also do that in a way that respects the environment, that looks at innovation, and that addresses issues like global warming and peak-oil and environmental racism? How do we build new visions and programs that serve everybody?

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