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. We have over half a million readers in the United States, and over 625,000 different ebook titles available for instant download.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 4, 2009

While touring the island, listening to my pleasant audio guide chattering away on my headphones, I learned of a constituent empowerment campaign from long ago. The French government extended the gift of the Statue of Liberty to the United States in 1876, in recognition of our first 100 years as a nation.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

Additionally, she has been active in MomsRising's national and state campaigns for fair pay, paid sick days, paid family leave and breastfeeding promotion. She has over 15 years of experience as a community organizer and community builder in the United States and South Asia. That was before the kid and the dog.

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Forum One

MAY 17, 2010

In response to Cairo, the attendees sought to work together to forge relationships between the United States and Muslims based on respect and partnerships within the private sector and civil society organizations. In this vein, Forum One has already has already established a number of new business relationships.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

Here are the results for the 2008 Innovator Awards: Advocacy campaign or program Honorable Mention: National Parks Conservation Association Winner: Freepress for their StopBigMedia.com campaign Over 200,000 comments sent to the FCC and Senate and overturned and FCC ruling to block monopolies in media companies. Komen for the Cure race.

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Media Cause

JUNE 16, 2022

Working with land, they bring people together to design and practice strategies for healing, health and reparative economics. ?. NAACP + NAACP Legal Defense Fund —The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is a civil rights organization formed as an interracial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 12, 2022

Making Decent Work a Reality for Adults and Youth. Governments should embrace internationally recognised fundamental rights at work including ending forced labour, discrimination at work, respecting workers’ right to freely choose representation and ensuring safe and healthy working conditions.

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

It is hard to express in one blog my entire week-long experience with nonprofit leaders from Japan, Syria, Uganda, Nigeria and different parts of the United States at the American Express Leadership Academy 2.0 Prior to this role, Elena had worked in the global financial services industry for more than 20 years.

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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. FORGE serves 60,000 refugees in three different refugee camps in Southern Africa, and is an official operating partner of the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR ).

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

It is hard to express in one blog my entire week-long experience with nonprofit leaders from Japan, Syria, Uganda, Nigeria and different parts of the United States at the American Express Leadership Academy 2.0 Prior to this role, Elena had worked in the global financial services industry for more than 20 years.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 25, 2008

The Women of Color Resource Center has been around for a little over 17 years and we are a pretty impressive place, I think, because we are one of the very few places in the nation, and globally, that holds the interest of women of color, and girls of color as a central piece of our work.

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Non Profit Quarterly

MARCH 2, 2022

Electronic transaction platforms like Amazon, Uber, Grubhub, and Airbnb have perhaps permanently changed the way that we live and work. Although Uber terminated this plan in 2020, selling off its self-driving technology, many platform companies are on the way to developing technology that works to replace their human employees.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 2, 2008

As a feminist, and as a feminine feminist, I truly believe that we don't do a very good job in the United States of believing that you can lead by serving, and I think the United States needs to think deeply about being in service of the rest of the world." It works in over 160 countries around the world.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 29, 2006

And I work here at Ella Baker Center. It's really an honor to be working here doing some amazing work with a new program, Reclaim the Future. He came and talked about affirmative action, we became friends at that point, and started to learn about the different work that we were each doing.

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