Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 3, 2018

5: World Environment Day — #WorldEnvironmentDay. 8: International Literacy Day — #LiteracyDay. 16: Global Cat Day — #GlobalCatDay. 2018 Global Trends in Giving Report. 3: World Press Freedom Day — #WorldPressFreedomDay. 10: World Lupus Day — #WorldLupusDay. September.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 31, 2017

5: World Environment Day — #WorldEnvironmentDay. 8: International Literacy Day — #LiteracyDay. 16: Global Cat Day — #GlobalCatDay. 2017 Global Trends in Giving Report. 1: International Workers’ Day — #LaborDay. 3: World Press Freedom Day — #WorldPressFreedomDay. September.

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Bloomerang

MAY 6, 2022

Their priorities range from facilitating book donation drives to supporting arts education to funding playground construction and family literacy programs. . The Awesome Foundation is a global community advancing the interest of “awesome in the universe,” mostly through providing $1,000 micro-grants. Wish You Well Foundation.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 9, 2022

Globally, Habitat for Humanity has worked in more than 70 countries and helped more than 39 million people with improved living conditions since 1976. It’s not about giving away homes, it’s about creating generational change, a steady and safe environment for families, and building wealth in their home,” Chris says. The Challenge.

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NTEN

JUNE 6, 2023

Additional resources: Digital Skills Framework — a taxonomy of digital skills, plus further learning resources to help build skills in each area, aimed at global nonprofits. Northstar Digital Literacy has some online assessments free to individuals. Maybe it imparts knowledge, but people can’t transfer that to a real-life environment.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2014

Technology currently serves privileged groups through tools that provide access to education, literacy, health, and justice. Global Literacy Sixth Grader and Bookshare member Kevin Leong with Jim Fruchterman at Benetech''s offices. But what about everybody else? The time has never been better to think 10X bigger!

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 28, 2006

Jenny manages the China operations for a global cell phone technology company. Having the chance to talk to an expert like Jenny helped me understand the development environment, which cell phone capabilities are widespread in China as well as practical differences in the issues that would be facing us in a country like China.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 17, 2014

The tools we develop for that purpose span a range of fields—from human rights , to global literacy , to the environment —but no matter what area we work in, we depend on an IP system that’s friendly to technological advances and to positive social impact. copyright law.

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NTEN

JANUARY 26, 2021

A once-in-a-lifetime pandemic and a global economic recession have made nonprofit services an essential lifeline for millions of people. In this environment, nonprofits can optimize their approach to time and expense management to maximize efficiency, enhance transparency, and demonstrate value at every level. Overhead projections.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 24, 2006

However, it quickly became clear that this was a rare opportunity to take advantage of Patrick's global reputation in human rights and in technology. Patrick's role as CTO will have strong exposure outside Benetech as well as our primary tech leadership job. I hope you all get a chance to meet Patrick soon!

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 2, 2007

Under our new CTO, Patrick Ball (see my last President's letter), we are building a tech team to work on our incredibly varied list of projects in literacy, human rights and the environment. Route 66 Literacy Our newest project is Route 66 Literacy, and it includes a demonstration site that anyone can try out.

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Tech Soup

MAY 31, 2013

We proudly welcome NGO partners Vietnet-ICT and the Lin Centre in Vietnam, as well as ASEAN Foundation , Kopernik Marketplace , and YCAB Foundation in Indonesia to the TechSoup Global family. Although Vietnam is regarded as a developing country, it has a literacy rate of 94 percent. It is densely populated with 92 million people.

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Tech Soup

JULY 25, 2012

She came to the Nonprofit Commons to share her areas of expertise in media literacy, human-computer interaction, and the impact of the digital revolution on education and libraries. "Second Life libraries are examples of immersive learning environments ," explained Dr. Hill. Success in Second Life.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 13, 2009

GI-NET's blog Global Fund for Women Mission: "The Global Fund for women promotes women's economic security, health, education and leadership." Global Fund for Women's blog Maine Coon Adoptions They rescued and helped us adopt our Maine Coon cat, Dora! Urban Sprouts blog is also their website.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2006

Youth Connection, Part I: Field Building with University Students Moderated by Katie Salen (Parsons, the New School of Design) Description: Aside from creating "future leaders," let's talk about what University students are already contributing to social change gaming by creating a new kind of gaming environment. Gaming is literacy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2007

Mentioned recent studies about taking laptops out of the classroom and there is a problem with using old metrics and it is important to look for new metrics and rethink learning environments in general. New learning environment puts games at the center. What does the next generation of learning environments look like?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2006

The environment for learning is no longer in the classroom and its online, and outside of school. These are complex learning environments where young people are making decisions, learning and collaborating with peers, etc. He noted that media literacy has to be integrated as a skill set in all places. It isn't entertainment.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

Problems were that many survivors had no internet access, let alone electrical power, let alone computers or even computer literacy. At this point, social media is changing and growing as much as our environment both physically and politically – the options are so numerous they can be a real cost.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

APRIL 12, 2022

Climate change is a global, systemic crisis and there are many points of entry.”. Rather than having experts present on why energy efficiency would be good for the community and the environment, they held a series of open houses to allow neighbors to talk to each other. Doing something at the community level feels tangible.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 28, 2012

The term social enterprise is in common use globally to describe enterprises that have a social welfare intent. The social enterprise movement is a global one, so we hope that the measured approach of the USPTO to this application is echoed by peer trademark authorities in other countries. Social enterprise is descriptive.

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Kindful

MARCH 5, 2021

Global Fund for Women. Wallace Global Fund. Its mission is to protect and improve the health and wellness of the people of California by increasing access to health care, quality education, good jobs, healthy environments, and safe neighborhoods. Global Fund For Women. Boulware Foundation. Vermont Women’s Fund.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 7, 2022

Global Fund for Women. Wallace Global Fund. Its mission is to protect and improve the health and wellness of the people of California by increasing access to health care, quality education, good jobs, healthy environments, and safe neighborhoods. Global Fund For Women. Boulware Foundation. Vermont Women’s Fund.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 21, 2008

Benetech's newest project is a software tool called Miradi that helps environmental practitioners design, manage, monitor and learn from their projects to more effectively meet the needs of global biodiversity. Route 66 Literacy was put on the back burner last year because it ran out of funding.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 12, 2012

Transparency is crucial because tracking, profiling, and behavioral marketing to users has become a widespread, global practice that often leaves us befuddled. We have to create an environment of trust around the information we collect and be crystal clear about where it’s going. As leaders, we have to respect our audience.

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EveryAction

MARCH 16, 2017

Organizations like Room to Read , the Poetry Foundation , and Books in Homes USA work to promote literacy and the significance of literary works in our society - support their work today, bookworms! Do you love ladies in literature? Sheroes in the Sciences. Gertrude B. You can thank marine biologist and writer Rachel Carson for that.

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.orgSource

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

Jacqueline Price Osafo, the first person of color to serve as executive director of the Society of American Archivists, made this observation about the environment. “My Receptivity to change and innovation, keeping organizations competitive and relevant in an evolving business environment. Everyone must have a voice.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

So, if I provide 10 English as a second language or 10 computer literacy programs a year for 10 people, let’s just say that’s 100 pieces of content, that’s service. So earlier I mentioned maybe a parent who took English as a second language classes or maybe they got their GED or they took those computer literacy programs.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 6, 2007

Kevin Danaher is the co-founder of the nonprofit Global Exchange which co-sponsors the Green Festivals with Co-op America. Kevin talks about the Global Citizen Center, a large mixed use building in downtown San Francisco that will serve as a hub for ecologically and socially responsible enterprise, education and economic development.

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NTEN

AUGUST 25, 2009

Founded by Susan Crawford, who now advises President Obama on science, technology, and innovation policy, OneWebDay is a global event that is celebrated every September 22 since 2006. Because the Web shifts the balance of power in our global society and local communities, even those who never go online live in a constantly changing world.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 2, 2008

Kavita Ramdas, President and CEO, Global Fund for Women. Kavita Ramdas is the President and CEO of the nonprofit, the Global Fund for Women. I think it's worth it (: Kavita Ramdas: The Global Fund for Women is the largest independent, publicly supported grant-making foundation to advance women's human rights internationally.

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