Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 3, 2013

We are now directly participating in the DAISY Consortium’s Transforming Braille project, which seeks to dramatically lower the cost of braille cell technology, the fundamental technical building block of a braille display. and critical for the inclusion and empowerment of people in developing countries.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

We've see this model succeed at the MAH and at other community-centered organizations around the world. The model we landed on was movement building. We're excited about this movement-building model for three reasons: It taps diverse sources of expertise. Some are funding projects. We explored opening a training center.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 17, 2011

This year’s Day of Service featured three different projects – a computer recycling project and installation of a wireless network in Washington, DC’s largest homeless shelter and meal preparation at DC Central Kitchen. Approximately 100 volunteers participated in service activities.

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Story Service Arts NTC 95

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. Sounds a lot like Edupunk, doesn’t it? I learned a lot.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2011

The report analyzes many examples of networks and provides tools and tips for Network-Centric Grantmaking. Diana Scearce, who I’ve had the pleasure of working with on the Network of Networked Funders project, is the report author. Don’t assume that models of organizational effectiveness can be applied to strengthening networks.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 25, 2007

The exhibition is a fairly standard zoo introduction to the Congo, its inhabitants, and conservation efforst, with a twist: at the end of the Congo experience, in the Conservation Choices area, visitors are able to select, via a touchscreen, which animals/areas/projects they want their $3 entry fee to fund.

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Classy

APRIL 27, 2021

Employees now have more access to stress management resources and empowerment to seek the support they need on an individual level. You could say, “That project sounds great, but my calendar is full and I don’t have the ability to commit to that right now.” From there, you can determine what projects can be shifted around.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 17, 2016

The partners we work with--to catalyze projects within and beyond our walls--are just as important as our visitors to fulfilling our mission. In behind-the-scenes mode, we could devote more resources to supporting projects beyond our building, content area, and program formats.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Combined with check-ins with the grantee or partner throughout the project, these clear expectations of impact increase the chances of hitting your shared goals. . If you’re just starting this process, consider the creation of a logic model. Once set, all future actions can be compared back to the model.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 7, 2022

NVF for GPA funds projects across a broad range of issues, including but not limited to: Family planning, Financial services for the poor, Gender equality, Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health (MNCH). Proposals can be for either core or project-specific support. Areas served: US. Boulware Foundation. Areas served: Vermont.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2011

This year's Day of Service featured three different projects - a computer recycling project and installation of a wireless network in Washington, DC's largest homeless shelter and meal preparation at DC Central Kitchen. Approximately 100 volunteers participated in service activities. Event 360 was a sponsor for the Day of Service.

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Service Story Arts NTC 66

Kindful

MARCH 5, 2021

NVF for GPA funds projects across a broad range of issues, including but not limited to: Family planning, Financial services for the poor, Gender equality, Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health (MNCH). Proposals can be for either core or project-specific support. Areas served: US. Boulware Foundation. Areas served: Vermont.

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Empowerment Grant Fund Resource 104

Tech Soup

DECEMBER 19, 2011

To further reach their goals, SAP is going beyond their traditional giving model to make an impact through technology — an idea that makes them a great partner with TechSoup. This strategy has evolved over the past year and includes a range of projects and programs throughout the world. Tech for Good.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 25, 2012

A performance bond guarantees satisfactory completion of a project, and in the event of non-performance, the bond covers the monetary loss. iii These may be short, mid, or long-term bonds, depending on the project, the surety required, and the pre-qualifications met by the firm seeking the bond. He established Twin Cities Rise! ,

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 20, 2015

Empowerment, Shelter, and Support. On October 3, it held a Purple Paw Project festival at a local park. This model reduces barriers and also provides a more comfortable setting for our clients." Brighter Tomorrows, Inc.: The mission of Brighter Tomorrows, Inc. Last year, Brighter Tomorrows sheltered more than 1,000 victims.

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Tech Soup

JULY 8, 2011

data and governance, profiting from social change projects, and access to data and tools. ” Jeremy Heimans, Purpose, Australia, while he argued that micro payments are a better funding model than plain charity, for social change. Broadly, the topics discussed included democracy, value of. “Leadership must be strategic.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Enter the Nonprofit Common Data Model (CDM) , originally stewarded by Microsoft as a founding creator and ongoing community sponsor. Because it exists as an Open Source architecture rather than an Open Source project based on a specific platform, it is strengthened by interdependency as more nonprofit software providers participate.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

It marked the start of a six month peer learning exchange where I, along with colleague Stephanie Rudat will work remotely with grantees as they implement an action learning project to put techniques into practice and facilitate organizational change from the inside out. Program Design. Peer Learning Exchange: Theory of Change.

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Pakistan NGO Network Exercise 111

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2016

While there was evidence of plenty of community engagement work across museums and galleries, most of it was funded project by project. Most participatory projects were short-term, siloed innovations, not institutional transformations. The financial austerity measures applied external pressure to the Our Museum institutions.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

For example, AI can accelerate low-code development by helping you build a workflow or an app just by using natural language, or it can generate content from data using large language models like GPT-4. There are many resources available to you to help you learn and grow as a low-code developer.

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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. Begin Connections.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 19, 2015

Community First Program Design At the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History , we've gravitated towards a "community first" program planning model. Often, organizations adopt a service model that is strictly needs-based. While needs are important, this service model can be demeaning and disempowering. It's pretty simple.

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Teen Museum Voice Collaboration 20

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. The projects can range from preschools, to libraries and computer training centers, to women empowerment programs.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

I love this stuff because, to me, data done right is empowerment. Now our dashboard tells us where we are against our membership goals for the year, and where we projected to be at this date. You need IT folks who understand how data is structured, what queries are possible, how data modeling works. What about you?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 24, 2007

I realized, in thinking about all of this, that the model of technology support that makes the most sense to me is to think of it similarly as a teacher-student relationship. Certainly, if you are a technology provider that values empowerment of your clients, this is probably a good model to consider. Second, Empowerment.

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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. Now that’s social impact!

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 17, 2015

In Europe, the government has traditionally been the primary supporter of culture, a model very different to ours in the US. However, the European model is becoming unsustainable as government sources are reducing their funding, and organizations are turning to corporate, foundation, and individual sources for support.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 7, 2015

In Europe, the government has traditionally been the primary supporter of culture, a model very different to ours in the US. However, the European model is becoming unsustainable as government sources are reducing their funding, and organizations are turning to corporate, foundation, and individual sources for support.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 2, 2007

The way that World of Good has really gone about this is, we have done it in a two-part model. So the pricing models are all based on commodity pricing. In handmade items, you don't have that same kind of model; you don't buy and sell a bushel of embroidered skirts. It doesn't work that way.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

It was my birthday and the culmination of a campaign to raise money for Cambodian children that I used an action learning project for the students. We actually eat chocolate in class as part of the exercise! Employ empowerment marketing. What campaigns have you seen that use this model? Tell your story. Act, then think.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

Looking for a business process/model for moving tech to each department. Design solutions for collaboration, empowerment, global views, and self awareness. Proposed solution: An online community portal that would allow associations to post events or projects that need volunteers. Collecting data on all user learning activity.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 11, 2014

“Pop Up” has become an international buzz term to describe ephemeral, experimental projects--from pop up restaurants to pop up boutiques--but a “Pop Up Museum” is still somewhat mystifying. There are many different models, including The Pop-Up Museum of Queer History , The New York Met , SF Mobile Museum , and even a Pop Up Prison Museum.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 29, 2009

It seemed to be a really good and sustainable model, and we raised around $300,000 doing that kind of work. The other thing that Off the Mat, Into the World does is that we create and model our own outreach projects, but on a grander scale. I wasn't really sure how this project would fly.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 29, 2006

Britt: Tell us a little bit about your work here, like what does your day look like, what kind of brought you to this work, for people who are like, "Oh, I want to work in a project like that!" How to have better practices in communication, and I think one of the things we do at Art and Action is model collective leadership.

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