Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 3, 2013

and critical for the inclusion and empowerment of people in developing countries. Images are currently omitted altogether in electronic braille formats and require extensive human intervention to produce in an accessible, tactile form. In response to the need to make accessible images cheaper, better, and more cost effective, we created the DIAGRAM Center with funding by the U.S. Image by the National Braille Press, a DIAGRAM subcontract.

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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.

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MARCH 8, 2021

As we highlight our staff who are raising their hands high to reinforce and show solidarity on social media today, we also wanted to highlight our clients doing important work moving the needle forward for women’s equality and empowerment. Telling stories through images of empowerment.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 28, 2014

He oversaw the development of numerous products and services that allow us to drive social empowerment through technology across all our programs. The Benetech team has just bid goodbye to VP of Engineering Gerardo Capiel, who is moving on to his next adventure. A passionate technology-for-good advocate, Gerardo has made major contributions to Benetech’s social mission since he joined us over four years ago.

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JUNE 18, 2015

" Angelica Ross on Empowerment. "What does empowerment truly look like for the trans community? Empowerment in these types of programs means transferring decision-making authority and more responsibility to trans individuals who reflect the lived experiences of those you wish to serve." Image 1: Lisa Predko. Image 2 : Jessica Sladek / TransTech.

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AUGUST 12, 2021

Different images next to individual donation amounts help donors visualize the impact their gift will have. Hard as Nails is a Catholic nonprofit whose focus is on direct missions and youth empowerment. Looking for fundraisers that will work for your faith-based organization?

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Tech Soup Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

The organization's mission is to provide educational and vocational training to at-risk populations and break the cycle of poverty through education, empowerment, and increasing levels of employability. Image : U.S. We are excited to announce the winners of our Symantec Mission Possible campaign.

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For example, USA for UNHCR is using images of refugee camps to create models that can predict how different buildings are used. Featured Photo: Send 100 Girls to STEM Camp in Nigeria by Women's Technology Empowerment Centre (W.TEC).

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Tech Soup Blog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

If you do go the policy or guidelines route, remember to focus on empowerment rather than rigid restrictions. Empower staff by sharing up-to-date information, making them aware of style guides, and having images, logos, and copy readily available. Image: Lindsay Shaver. It seems obvious, but one of the hallmarks of social media is that they are social. Yep, it's right there in the name. Of course, you say, I know this. Great.

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Tech Soup Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2015

The United Nations Foundation links the United Nation's work with others around the world, mobilizing the energy and expertise of business and nongovernmental organizations to help the UN tackle climate change, global health, peace and security, women's empowerment, poverty eradication, energy access, and U.S.-UN Image: +SocialGood.

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For example, the Leaderosity Learning Library by the Nonprofit Leadership Alliance has courses that utilize engaging learning elements such as text, video, images, and interactive features. Nonprofit organizations are often pressed to do more with less.

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Tech Soup Blog

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. Image : WORTH Trust. Arjun was born partially blind. With doctors giving no hope that his eyesight would get any better, his parents were constantly worried about his education and ability to support himself.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Under the theme “Achieving Our Vision through Empowerment and Partnerships,” this was the first-ever combined General Assembly of both WBU and the International Council for Education of People with Visual Impairment ( ICEVI ), another world-class organization in the field. There is much more work to be done to ensure accessibility of all content, including math, images and other media.

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Tech Soup Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2015

Empowerment, Shelter, and Support. Image 1: Alternatives to Violence. Image 2: Mosaic Family Services. October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month (DVAM). TechSoup is participating by amplifying what other agencies, collaborators, and libraries in our network are doing to raise awareness on this important issue. Here are just a few examples of the extraordinary work these organizations are doing this month and every month.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 9, 2010

When I say “give permission,&# in this post, I’m really saying that you should balance the herding and collecting of the community with the encouragement and empowerment for the community to go wherever it wants with your message or information. My latest post is up on the Stanford Social Innovation Review blog. You can read the post and join the conversation on the SSIR blog here , or read the copied post below.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 12, 2011

To add images to your blog, create custom tabs on Facebook, and/or design an e-newsletter template, you need to know basic HTML code. HTML allows you to format text and insert links and images on Web pages. The overall message should be one of empowerment, not control and restriction. The following is an excerpt from Chapter 2 of the newly released book Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 23, 2007

A recent series of studies by psychologists provides the research that proves it -- they have found that fund-raising appeals do best when they are crafted around a single gripping image. It uses images to promote social and humanitarian causes. Or check out the photos from Kathy Adams who runs Empowerment International and has been sharing photos from Nicaragua and Costa Rica that show the impact of her organization's work

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2009

I support empowerment of women worldwide with this tweet. Twitter users may donate their avatar and replace it with an image of the red female sign. The image is available here. I've been on Twitter since almost the beginning and have watched charitable giving and fundraising go from the edge to mainstream. Twitter is establishing itself as a charitable giving and cause marketing channel. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 28, 2011

Often, they’re messy, but vibrant and all about real time learning. While the traditional case study is tidy, packaged, and finished – the living case study is open to input, questions, reflections and most of all empowerment of peers. Erika Croxton from Grist and Daniela Aceves from Roots of Change agreed to each share a living case study. More detailed suggestions for A/B testing with images here. Living Case Studies: Social Media and Sustainable Agriculture.

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Tech Soup Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

Naples, Florida: #Storymakers 2017: Creating Images and Video with Adobe Spark. Mahikeng, South Africa: Rural Tech Empowerment. Image : Jeremy Hiebert / CC BY-NC-SA. IMAGE ATTRIBUTION GUIDELINES Image Name: Author / License. HTML EXAMPLE Image: Siobhan Aspinall with Umbrella at The Digital Nonprofit 201 : Elijah van der Giessen via Michele Mateus / CC BY-NC 2.0. --> spanhidden. TechSoup's annual Storymakers campaign launches September 5.

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Tech Soup Blog

AUGUST 25, 2014

In the midst of a pivotal moment in patient engagement and empowerment, our microphone has been turned off. Images: Image one: Santa and Phone : Shutterstock. Image two: Like work cloud : Shutterstock. Image three: Creative Commons: Batteries : CC BY. Image four: Creative Commons: Handset Out For Repair : CC BY. Image five: Creative Commons: Garbage Recycling : CC BY NC ND.

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Tech Soup Blog

AUGUST 8, 2013

In the case of Microsoft, their current mission is youth empowerment. Images 1 and 2: Shutterstock. Image 3: Junior Achievement. The latest Chronicle of Philanthropy survey of American corporate giving essentially finds that companies are still giving out cash grants, but are putting more energy into product or in-kind philanthropy.

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Tech Soup Blog

MARCH 4, 2016

The city's OpenData goals are to improve city services for residents and businesses, produce jobs, enhance economic opportunities, and increase resident engagement and empowerment. Image 1: SF OpenData. Image 2: Concrn. Image 3: Environmental Working Group. Image 4: FracTracker Alliance. From fracking to birth control, food ingredients to encryption, seven apps were featured in the Apps4Change event.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 20, 2006

Murray writes: At the Global Fund I defined empowerment as 'having a vision, having a plan to work toward that vision, and having the capacity to take the first steps toward the plan.' The Global Fund's role in such empowerment usually involved responding to requests from women's groups to provide the financial means for women to take the first steps in a plan that they had already developed in the context of their vision. Believing that social change is possible is the beginning.

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AUGUST 19, 2014

Newsprint black-and-white image. A good sense of hierarchy—IMAGE, then COLA BOTTLE, then HEADLINE, then COPY—across the page with some consideration of white space. Design elements to note: The iconic color-printing style of the illustrations, the way the type wraps the image creating lots of stair-stepping patterns, and the direct eye contact made with the illustration to you, the reader. . I’ve got a pretty fun exercise for you.

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Tech Soup Blog

MAY 11, 2015

This app was the winner of a Cities for Financial Empowerment Fund and Capital One hackathon. Images: Caravan Studios / TechSoup. In San Francisco, sometimes one can feel a bit cynical about the influx of frivolous technology with billion dollar valuations. 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.

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Tech Soup Blog

AUGUST 8, 2013

In the case of Microsoft, their current mission is youth empowerment. Images 1 and 2: Shutterstock. Image 3: Junior Achievement. The latest Chronicle of Philanthropy survey of American corporate giving essentially finds that companies are still giving out cash grants, but are putting more energy into product or in-kind philanthropy.

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Tech Soup Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Our Time (Facebook) is a nonprofit dedicated to youth empowerment through the voting process. Image: App Inventor Workshop ( Flickr ). As part of the Transforming Communities project, we had the opportunity to explore apps targeted toward youth as well as apps developed by youth. Transforming Communities is a Microsoft-funded initiative that builds on what TechSoup and Microsoft already learned through the first App It Up project.

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Tech Soup Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

In addition to their relatively traditional offerings of training, legal advice, and grant management, STGM and TechSoup Turkey will focus on supporting digital empowerment. Image 1 : Taehyun Kim / CC BY-NC-ND. Image 2 : Wikimedia / Public Domain. Image 3 : starkart.org / CC BY-NC-SA. Image 4 : hugovk / CC BY-NC-SA. Image 5: Chris Worman. Are you sitting down?! We've got some exciting news.

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JANUARY 28, 2016

That inspiration and motivation comes from a narrative and images we attach to the movement’s core values and beliefs. Make sure your creative includes all of the following: Images: Timely and relevant; telling the narrative of the individual instead of the crowd; featuring faces of real people who are seeking opportunity (the empowerment the gifts are directed toward).

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Tech Soup Blog

MAY 7, 2014

Human trafficking survivors are better able to access the kinds of resources necessary to get safe and stable housing, social services, and economic empowerment. Images: Caravan Studios. This post was written by Marnie Webb, who leads TechSoup's newest division, Caravan Studios. There, she builds technology that connects local communities to resources that help them solve problems and impact issues.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2011

While I faced a difficult decision culling winners from the forty focused initiatives described in the entries, I selected the following based on their innovative and courageous approaches to a variety of social issues, from new types of housing for the underserved, to animal welfare, to women’s empowerment. The Bold, Focused Ideas of Breakthrough Nonprofit Brands by Carol Cone.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2010

Here’s a few gems from outside of my sweet spot of nonprofit technology: PhotoDNA is an team effort between Microsoft researchers and Dartmouth College computer science professor Hany Farid to create a way to identify and remove images of child pornography from search engines, based on matching their digital fingerprints provided by law enforcement agencies.

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Beth Kanter

OCTOBER 14, 2011

Image by Codilicious from Flickr. NStreet Village : N Street Village is a community of empowerment and recovery for homeless and low-income women in Washington, D.C.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 19, 2015

We use a simple "honeycomb" diagram (image) to do these four steps. The most successful programs fostered youth empowerment and community leadership in various content areas: agriculture, technology, healing. One of my favorite comments on the first post in this series came from Lyndall Linaker, an Australian museum worker, who asked: " Who decides what is relevant?

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 13, 2009

There are also tons of nonprofit organizations, like Streetside Stories (where the book cover image above is from), that work during the school day, and after school to supplement the schools' curriculum. Organizations like these teach everything from sports, to science, to the arts, to girl empowerment. By Tweeting on momdot Image credit: Cover from Streetside Stories ' student anthology of autobiographical stories (I used to work there).

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

The cards are unique and beautiful and carry the voices of women (and some men) depicted in images and words and offer compassionate healing for those who both make them, and for those who receive them. You do not need to be an “artist” to make a postcard, but each participant is surprised and delighted by their creativity and to see that their cards contain colors, words and images that reflect their strongest selves.

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NTEN

AUGUST 16, 2011

Documentary footage and stories told through game present images of strong women of color. The empowerment of girls in third world countries is a topic many corporate sponsors are looking to endorse. By Jeff Ramos, Community and Content Manager, Games for Change. For the first time, this year's Games for Change Festival created an opportunity for producers of games in development to get live feedback from leading game designers, educators, and funders on the main stage.

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Traitify

JANUARY 2, 2018

MeToo was meant to be a movement that provides “empowerment through empathy” to survivors of sexual abuse, assault, exploitation and harassment, especially those in underprivileged communities. Project Life Jacket’s website showcased each illustrated life jacket and paired it with a refugee’s image and bio, along with a clip from their interview. It’s happening again. All of the year’s art, events and goings-on are being sorted into “best of” lists on various blogs.

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Tech Soup Blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

So you want to change the world, and you know that using images and other visual content is an excellent way to convince people to support your cause. This guide to data visualization and image selection is packed with strategies, tips, and concrete examples. " An example is a campaign sponsored by the Women Empowerment Program at the Hariri Foundation in Lebanon. Image 1 : Tactical Technology Collective. Image 2 : Appalachian Voices.

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Tech Soup Blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

So you want to change the world, and you know that using images and other visual content is an excellent way to convince people to support your cause. This guide to data visualization and image selection is packed with strategies, tips, and concrete examples. " An example is a campaign sponsored by the Women Empowerment Program at the Hariri Foundation in Lebanon. Image 1 : Tactical Technology Collective. Image 2 : Appalachian Voices.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 6, 2016

One of the nonprofits that inspires me locally here in Santa Cruz is a youth empowerment and food justice organization called "Food, What!?" He strategically includes images of students from Pajaro Valley High, so when he asks, “See anyone you know on here?” For the last time this summer, I'm sharing a chapter from my new book The Art of Relevance to celebrate its release. Read more online and buy your own copy today.

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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. BB: You've captured so many amazing images and stories in this book, what is the image that stands out the most for you? "[T]hose of us who take pictures, even for our own personal trips, and share those pictures with friends, because we have that skill, also have an obligation to help people understand each other more completely.

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