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. I love to hark back to Thomas Jefferson’s take on ideas. “He However, experiencing Napster sparked the idea for me of creating Bookster.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 25, 2012

The past decade has been rife with ideas on how to scale up successful nonprofit organizations. Calls for scaling have been amplified by the recent economic recession, which brought increased demand for social services coupled with shrinking government dollars. Municipal bonds (munis) are debt obligations issued by government entities.

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ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 18, 2018

I didn’t know how I could turn ideas into action, but I wanted to learn. This creates a self-sustaining cycle of empowerment, which is critical to ending the disconnection and disempowerment that prevent individuals from living the life they are worthy and capable of.

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Forum One

MAY 17, 2010

We are also engaging with the Government of Iraq through the development of new web portals that will assist with project management and connecting with citizens of the country. government, members of the diplomatic corps, successful business and civil society leaders, philanthropists, media professionals, academics, artists etc.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2017

Empowerment. Technology is creating new mechanisms that are enabling us to trust unknown people, companies and ideas. Global trust in government, media, business and NGOs has fallen to its lowest levels ever. Transparency. Aspiration. Positive Impact. Ground your innovation in one (or more!)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 26, 2011

I enjoy it because I get double dose: great ideas about the integration of technology with leadership, training, and capacity building AND the content. Carson talked about the impact of government cuts in California – and that it is going beyond effecting those in lower income neighborhoods and reaching a broader swath of individuals.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 23, 2016

A host of cultural, economic, social and infrastructural barriers keep women locked out from the empowerment potential of Internet access. We launched a global crowdsourcing campaign to collect homegrown solutions and ideas to spread digital empowerment.

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 22, 2015

Use these ideas to spark some of your own ideas to partner with for-profit companies. Mozilla, the company behind the Firefox browser, is a for-profit entity that’s always promoted the idea of an open Internet. It turns out, many of these companies are eager to help. Make-A-Wish-Foundation.

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Deborah Elizabeth Finn

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Practical Ideas for Improving Equity and Inclusion at Nonprofits. Community engagement governance. Environmental Justice: Moving Equity from Margins to Mainstream. From Promise to Practice — Embedding Equity and Inclusion. Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity Policy Template. Equity in the Center: Video Case Studies.

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Tech Soup

MAY 11, 2015

It seems like every day there's a new overhyped idea that claims to fix a problem you never thought you had, like a delivery service for laundry quarters. The team members came up with a tool to make the cumbersome process of collecting, transcribing, and cleaning data easier for urban nonprofits and government agencies.

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NTEN

AUGUST 25, 2009

Under the guise of non-profitability hundreds of millions of these laptops will be flogged off to our governments. 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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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

CON: can feel disconnected from the primary governance of the museum or can feel like a second-class board overall. C3-ers generated great and useful ideas, but they were functionally an assembly of creative individuals, efficiently giving us input. Latino Advisory vs. But there was a problem: it wasn''t a consistent body.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 25, 2007

In two months, 10,000 visitors sent postcards (and fortuitiously, the government acted in favor of protection). The museum display included information about the issue, a countdown clock to the government's decision, and a running tally of postcards submitted to date.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

If you came to us with an exciting idea and we felt a connection to you, and felt that you were the right entrepreneur to take it to that level, that's how we start. Too often policy makers and governments make it more difficult for someone to do business in their city than easier. A lot of people have great ideas.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 8, 2008

I will do an overview connecting the idea of metrics to poetry. Real Time Representation - How Social Media is Changing the Face of Government submitted by Erica O'Grady 2008 marked the year of the first Twitter from inside the Oval Office. How do I measure thee, let me count the ways, etc). THIS is Iron Chef ???

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 25, 2008

"I think that people have long associated feminism with older white women and the idea of bringing that back to women of color, and bringing it back to young women of color and asking them what it means is an exciting time for me." The idea of building capacity, particularly in an economic climate that is harsh, is a huge challenge for us.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 17, 2015

In Europe, the government has traditionally been the primary supporter of culture, a model very different to ours in the US. However, the European model is becoming unsustainable as government sources are reducing their funding, and organizations are turning to corporate, foundation, and individual sources for support.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 7, 2015

In Europe, the government has traditionally been the primary supporter of culture, a model very different to ours in the US. However, the European model is becoming unsustainable as government sources are reducing their funding, and organizations are turning to corporate, foundation, and individual sources for support.

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Bloomerang

MAY 14, 2021

A few months ago, I pitched this panel idea to Steven and he immediately got behind it. We were in the phase of the pandemic where people on unemployment were also receiving that bonus from the federal government to make it a little more livable.” So, you know, that’s an excellent idea. . Hi everyone. Lisa: Yeah.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 2, 2007

Holly has now been out meeting with the International Labor Organization and thinking about different ways that you really help create empowerment for women who work in informal markets. BB: What advice do you have for aspiring social entrepreneurs, or anyone else who has an idea for how to make the world a better place?

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 28, 2007

Britt Bravo: In so many of the groups you profiled, the women were using the arts for education, empowerment, or healing. They are gaining support from people in government, and politicians, and academicians, and business people, men, boys, women, girls. I mean, what a wonderful idea. It is a very rich portion of the site.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Kipp has been a leading software developer in the region, creating software around election monitoring and government transparency just to name a few. We were supposed to start our visit with a very high government official, but instead Kipp took me over to Nairobi Women’s Hospital. Visiting the Hon. Roger Martin).

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