Tech Soup

JUNE 25, 2013

The Media and Training Centre for Health specializes in the design and development of community learning models that promote health and empowerment in marginalized communities. The group provides a loving community where children can heal and grow. The organization focuses particularly on women and students in rural areas.

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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. The second group of enablers of the brighter future are business model innovations. And, the U.S. Senate just ratified the Treaty!

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Tech Soup

MAY 11, 2015

Although San Francisco is currently in a housing crisis/real estate boom , it also has some of the strongest tenant laws in the country. She also wanted to be able to keep contact information among her volunteers anonymous and disallow "reply alls" to the group text.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2010

But as Daniel Ben-Horin said, “Our theory of change states that software products are necessary, but not sufficient for empowerment of social change organizations. TechSoup works with 32 partners throughout the world to provide Microsoft products at a discount.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 8, 2007

The other big challenge is logistics… I spend inordinate amounts of time filling out IRS forms, transcribing focus groups, writing grants, writing emails to volunteers, talking to lawyers about liability, etc. We feel that true development is about civil society, laws, attitudes, and institutions. mali health NGO empowerment

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 12, 2022

It also requires formalizing the informal economy and extending the coverage of labour law for protection to those who are the most vulnerable. Decent work requires an adequate minimum wage based on dialogue and collective bargaining between workers’ organisations and employers.

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Non Profit Quarterly

MARCH 2, 2022

In 2020, multiple platform companies, including Uber, Lyft, Instacart, and Postmates, spent over $205 million to pass Proposition 22 in California , a law that classifies platform workers as independent contractors, not employees. For now, a large part of their efforts is in the political arena: In 2020, labor spent $5.28

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Met with a major international human rights defender group about our Martus technology and digital security more generally. law needs to change to comply with the treaty (the hope is that these changes are minimal). Met with a big NYC disability services provider about a possible Bookshare partnership. The Marrakesh Treaty.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 2, 2008

I think my favorite example of that is a women's group from the highlands of Bolivia who wrote to us maybe seven or eight years ago. They were a group of illiterate women who dictated their requests to a priest in the village, who then hand wrote the request. Those are some of the ways in which we try to make those decisions.

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