Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 23, 2007

Mirai Chatterjee of the Self Employed Women's Association in India explains social entrepreneurs as private initiatives that used business models around financial sustainability, self-help and empowerment. He pointed out that SEs are all about breaking away from charity and alms giving and focusing on pragmatic problem solving.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 19, 2011

Enabling 1,000 nonprofits through donations of technology, thereby helping organizations to run more efficiently and maximize their potential. For example: SAP continues to invest in their University Alliances program , which provides technology and expertise to educate students throughout the world and cultivate new IT leaders.

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Tech Soup

MAY 26, 2011

technology all the time. technological tools for what we need increases and the mobile is no. For those nonprofits working on sustainable development issues - NextDrop uses mobile technology to monitor and improve water flow in urban India and subsequent sustainable development. The mobile phone (henceforth to.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

Mumbai, India: Storymakers 2017. Mahikeng, South Africa: Rural Tech Empowerment. Mahikeng, South Africa: Technology for Rural Development. Ilorin, Nigeria: Recession: Reviving the Nation's Economy Through Technology. Morogoro, Tanzania: Technology for Livelihood Improvement. Asia and Pacific Rim. Europe and UK.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

I am very excited about upcoming peer learning projects that I’m working on in 2012, including several for Packard grantees in India, Pakistan, and Africa as well as the e-Mediat project in the Middle East. A few days ago I opened the door on a new learning journey. The last question asks students to tell Mazur what confused them.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2012

After finishing a four-day intensive training in Delhi for the Networked NGO , I stayed on a few days in India to visit colleague, Rufina Fernandez, who I met when she was the CEO of the Nasscom Foundation when she brought me to India to speak at the leadership conference and teach workshops back in 2010.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 28, 2006

It could be training in information and communication technology, or it could be a training on a local water filter that would be helpful for people to bring to their communities. For example, some of our women in Africa and India are interested in taking the ideas and the best practices that came out of this training into their regions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

I met Jennifer Aaker about a year ago when she invited me to do a guest lecture in her class, The Power of Social Technology Class , a graduate course, at Stanford Business School. Employ empowerment marketing. Let me explain how all these ideas tie together … Me and Jennifer Aaker. Tell your story. Act, then think.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

I had absolutely no publishing experience, much less any technology experience, and I was also very, very shy and I had no resources either, another big barrier. It had hit India. If your angle is using this training as an outlet for local empowerment and development, then you very much want to bring in mentorship.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 2, 2007

We have seen it in energy, and increasingly now with energy technologies. So with that concept in mind, we developed a technology called the Fair Trade Wage Guide , which helps groups in 178 countries, actually--you can go in real-time on the Internet and say, "OK, this is how long it took me to produce this product.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Consulted with some peer social entrepreneurs about whether we could help them with specific technology for their nonprofits. Met with a major international human rights defender group about our Martus technology and digital security more generally. Met with a big NYC disability services provider about a possible Bookshare partnership.

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