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Interview with Lindsay Gruber: Building Corporate Resilience through Pro Bono Volunteerism

Saleforce Nonprofit

With pro bono support, you can diagnose a problem and scope the solution in a way that actually gets to the root of the challenge. It is a gift of empowerment to nonprofits, volunteers, and the communities around us. You don’t need to be a fundraising expert to help. We all have a role to play in making the world better.

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Citizen Philanthropy: Delivering Impactful Pro Bono Support From Anywhere

Saleforce Nonprofit

This means that we help them to transform their business — not only digitally, but using a human-centered approach that develops solutions to problems by involving the human perspective in all the steps of a problem-solving process. Anna-Sophie Oertzen. Innovation Consulting Manager, Salesforce Ignite EMEA. .

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A Networked Fundraiser: charity:water Waterforward

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Its newest online fundraiser, Waterforward , is based on a simple question: What if the billion social media users in the world collectively chipped in a few dollars and helped solve the “wicked” problem for the billion people around the world who don’t have clean water? Here’s how it works. How WaterForward works.

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Why Investing in Tech Matters

Tech Soup

The Box report features interviews with 16 leaders involved in the nonprofit sector, including one of my favorites, Ekta Chopra, director of technology at the James Irvine Foundation. One of the most intriguing interviews is with Zeev Klein, general partner at Landmark Ventures. It focuses on five of them: Bridging the knowledge gaps.

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Empowering Refugees: Interview with Kjerstin Erickson of FORGE

Have Fun - Do Good

After meeting her at the Global Engagement Summer last spring, I knew I wanted to grab her for an interview before she became too famous. Erickson founded FORGE (Facilitating Opportunities for Refugee Growth and Empowerment) in 2003 when she was a 20 year-old junior studying public policy at Stanford University. I get that.

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The 45 Social by Social Propositions

Amy Sample Ward

The book is full of interviews, case studies, how-tos and more. Empowerment is unconditional. Technology can solve information problems, organise communities and publish behaviours, but they can’t deliver food or care for the sick. Be specific, define the issue, problem or idea, and let the answers pour in.

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Women of Color Resource Center: An Interview with Anisha Desai

Have Fun - Do Good

The following is an edited transcript of an interview I did with her on March 25th, 2008 for the Big Vision Podcast. BB: When I hear that I think, wow, that is a huge, depressing, systemic problem. Locally, we run a project called the Technology Empowerment Project of Oakland. What can people do to change that?