Global Giving

APRIL 25, 2020

But by using modern computer processors to perform these calculations at high volumes, data scientists can create models capable of solving complex problems. What kinds of problems can machine learning solve? Do you have a plan for managing issues around ethics, bias, and interpretability? LEARN MORE.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2016

At the workshop they met a group of fantastic young women – girls, really – who are teaching themselves to design mobile apps to address community problems like sexual violence. I’ve been committed to working on technology capacity building for organizations serving Women and Girls empowerment.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 15, 2014

While art, history, creativity, and culture are the vehicles for that empowerment, the teens involved spend a lot of their time with activists, civic leaders, and social psychologists. It''s about empowerment and community leadership through art and history. This is a chronic problem of in-depth co-creative projects.

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Deborah Elizabeth Finn

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Grant makers and nonprofit professionals are now talking openly about some very painful (and inter-related) issues in philanthropy, such as. Articles, reports, podcasts, and videos: The Problems With Philanthropy, and What We Can Do to Fix Them. The lack of inclusion and equity in philanthropy. Philanthropy for change, not charity.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 19, 2016

Around the world, organizations face unique challenges when mobilizing their constituents and growing online communities, whether for a cause, an issue, an organization's mission, or a combination thereof. How should organizations harness their online communities? unfoundation. spanhidden

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Saleforce Nonprofit

DECEMBER 5, 2022

The work then evolves from a company bringing more assets to the table, to your leadership team getting a more meaningful understanding about these issues and how it affects the business and their teams. 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.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 21, 2015

BBB Wise Giving Alliance , GuideStar , and Charity Navigator issued a joint letter in early 2015 encouraging nonprofits to join forces to dispel the overhead myth because it's strangling tech investment. " The report also recommends solutions to the thorny tech-funding problem. Download the Report. spanhidden.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 1, 2015

Other CSR teams promote programs to address a huge range of social issues. TechSoup is an international network of more than 60 NGOs that leverages technology to build nonprofit capacity and help solve social problems locally and globally. Over the same period, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) teams have grown. UN relations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Talking about global youth issues from a high-level is one thing, but it is so much more impactful and inspiring to sit down with young people and hear their stories of challenge and success directly. Peter has extensive international experience in Latin America and Africa and discussed the problems and solutions he sees from the ground.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 19, 2008

But in the nonprofit realm, my perspective on helping nonprofit organizations with technology issues has a lot to do with client empowerment, learning based on what’s needed at the moment, and active collaboration. The questions and problems are generated exactly from the needs of the participants – what do they need to do?

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 25, 2012

But a structural problem remains: philanthropy does not typically have available capital for scaling. The investors assume the risk that the nonprofit organization will meet the benchmarks and alleviate the social problem. Surety bonds are issued by banks or insurance companies to guarantee that an obligation will be met.

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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. One of the biggest issues is digital rights management.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 6, 2014

There, she builds technology that connects local communities to resources that help them solve problems and impact issues. Human trafficking survivors are better able to access the kinds of resources necessary to get safe and stable housing, social services, and economic empowerment.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 3, 2013

This allows a much broader group of experts to keep working on the problem. and critical for the inclusion and empowerment of people in developing countries. At Benetech, we agree that braille is an essential literacy tool and that every child who needs it has the right to be taught braille. This is important here in the U.S.,

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

With an aim to take on some of the world’s greatest problems and our commitment to leaving no one behind, we’ve concentrated our work specifically on two of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals. We work with six organizations committed to the education, employment and empowerment of women and girls across the globe.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 17, 2012

These apps encourage young people to get involved in civic and political issues. Our Time (Facebook) is a nonprofit dedicated to youth empowerment through the voting process. ClassTalk was made through Code for America , a nonprofit that connects app developers with civic leaders to solve city problems. Apps Made by Youth.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2010

Microsoft researchers are collaborating with the academic community on environmental problems, such as aggregation and visualization of complex scientific data from many sources. Can't solve the world's problems with our money alone. Chatting with David Connor , we both had the same reaction – who knew?

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Network Change Technology Social 103

Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 7, 2009

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. Let people solve their own problems. People want control.

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Tech Soup

MAY 7, 2014

There, she builds technology that connects local communities to resources that help them solve problems and impact issues. Human trafficking survivors are better able to access the kinds of resources necessary to get safe and stable housing, social services, and economic empowerment. Non-traditional Groups, Innovative Ideas.

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 22, 2015

Helping some of the world’s most impoverished children in Liberia is a complex problem, but ChildFund International receives help from an important partner back in the U.S.: The foundation works on web-related issues through advocacy, mobilizing volunteers and organizing events. ChildFund International. TOMS Shoes.

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Profit Examples Liberia Work 28

Museum 2.0

APRIL 29, 2015

HOW (slides 24-42) There are three “tracks” to our theory of change: individual empowerment, social bonding, and social bridging. Let’s start with empowerment. This might mean taking on a project in our historical archives, starting a studio art practice, or getting involved in local issues and organizations. And so on.

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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. Consider the issues with printed books. I’m a big fan of the printed book and always have been. First, they are place-based.

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NTEN

AUGUST 25, 2009

It's the definite article that causes problems, implying there's an easy way to think about the issues surrounding the inequitable access to technology -- and perhaps an easy solution. Setting aside the problems with his numbers -- he notes that "While only 3.6% Brett Meyer, NTEN. The digital divide doesn't exist.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 23, 2007

Succession issues: how do we build an organization that will outlive our involvement, and how to approach recruiting a successor to the founder, was a session that I moderated. 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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

100% of participants implement a process and write a social media policy that addresses organizational adoption issues. Dealing with Connectivity Issues, Remote Work, and Use of Social Platforms. Grantees Implement A Modest and Realistic Action Learning Pilot.

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Pakistan NGO Network Exercise 111

Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 3, 2007

After the call I started wondering, "How do you activate more people to contribute to the solution of a problem that is so horrific it paralyzes people into inaction?" Given the quantity of organizations, and the enormity of the issues we're faced with today, five qualities are important when designing an action: 1. Make it simple.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

But there was a problem: it wasn''t a consistent body. Instead, we wanted a collection of leaders, highly networked in different parts of our County, with their fingers on the pulses of significant community issues and activities. Our topics are broad, including Creative Spaces, Youth Empowerment, and Economic Opportunity.

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NTEN

AUGUST 16, 2011

” Presented by filmmaker Chelo Alvarez-Stehle, SOS_Slaves aims to raise trafficking awareness in teens while empowering them with the tools to take responsibility and speak out against this issue. Ambitious, multi-layered projects like this have the issue of being hard to fund. CLIMBING SACRED MOUNTAIN.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 25, 2014

Our lead story in this issue of TechSoup’s Nonprofit Technology News is the creation of the Mobile Giving Alliance that will help charities develop their mobile giving. In the midst of a pivotal moment in patient engagement and empowerment, our microphone has been turned off. How can you have a revolution if no one shows up?

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Foundations can make greater progress on addressing critical social issues by using digital platforms to elevate the work and success of the many players in their sector. Foundations are in the business of making the world a better place by providing grants to organizations they see making an impact on the issues that they care about deeply.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 25, 2007

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. Because museums are often afraid, unwilling, or unable to take clear positions on issues, they settle for empowering visitors to "get involved."

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 19, 2009

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. We bring communities together to identify their top problems, needs, and priorities, and solve them internally. I get that. Cross-posted from BlogHer.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 2, 2007

youre a funder in the philanthropic sector, and youve concluded that online collaboration is a great tool for solving issues like. In part one, we looked at determing the value of creating a collaboration community.If

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 25, 2008

That's where this work really sprung out of in looking at issues of homelessness, looking at issues of women on welfare, and looking at women in prison-- those who were really most affected and most in need of their voices being lifted. Young women of color, what are the issues that are most important to them?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 24, 2007

It drives me simply nuts that every single time I call my satellite provider about a problem with the service, and I’m saying “I’m seeing 80% packet loss, and doing a traceroute suggests that it’s about 2 hops after your modem&# and they respond with “OK, first, we’re going to clear out your browser cache.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 28, 2006

Our essential intention is to cultivate partnerships of grassroots women who are working at the community level on issues of environmental sustainability and social justice, so that they can really find opportunities to collaborate and to exchange best practices, exchange resources, and really build a collective agenda.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

The other thing is that a lot of inner cities are part of empowerment zones or enterprise zones where companies that are at a certain scale and profitable can benefit from tax credits, both from the payroll side, if you hire from the inner city, but also if you locate in the enterprise zones. The public safety issue is huge.

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