Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

At the STS meeting in Kyoto, I had the pleasure of meeting France Córdova, the president of Purdue University. France mentioned some cool education technology that had been developed at Purdue, called Signals - Stoplights for student success. For example, an accessible version of a key book or item of course content.

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Whole Whale

APRIL 14, 2022

Tour-de-France (July). It’s not summer without the Tour-de-France in July (or get a head-start with World Bicycle Day on June 3). Think a walk-a-thon meets those highway sponsorship programs: Get supporters to sponsor teams at a rate of $X per pound of trash collected. Bike-a-Thon. World Bicycle Day (June 3). Eat for Good.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2018

Dying for A Paycheck: How Modern Management Harms Employee Health and Company Performance and What Can We Do About It by Stanford Professor Jeffrey Pfeffer is an examination of the sources of workplace stress, its impact on employees, and how to change it before we’re all dead or sick from overwork. Finland ranked first in happiness.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 30, 2022

The increase in violence and hatred has not only been observed in countries with a history of exclusionary laws but also in France and Germany which saw a 39% increase in anti-LGBTQ+ hate crimes in 2021. Unfortunately, those most impacted by this resurgence of hate and discrimination are the youth of today. In the U.K., Donate Today.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Here are a few tried-and-true go-to items that will give your auction a solid foundation and appeal to all types of supporters. Many of these corporate partners would likely be thrilled to support your auction (after all, 77% of consumers want to make purchases from companies that support charitable causes).

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NTEN

AUGUST 17, 2010

Concerts took place mainly in the UK and the US, but also in Australia, Japan, France, and a half a dozen other places around the world. Scale like that required a massive amount of centralized work, work to bring the periphery (France) into the larger whole. If only for the sheer scale, it was epic, in the truest sense of the word.*

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

Construction of the statue had been completed the year before in France, but efforts to construct a pedestal in New York ground to a halt. The point is that crowdfunding is not all that radical or difficult if the cause teams with influencers who are willing to use their online influence to drum up support. Guest post by Jesse Noyes.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 25, 2013

A lot of helpful and insightful digital storytelling advice was shared; below are some of the highlights: India: NASSCOM Foundation, TechSoup Global partner, led the way with How to Create High Impact Stories. Participants advised understanding your audience and sharing the stories behind your program stats to make an impact.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 1, 2017

That's why TechSoup supports a global network of tech trainers called NetSquared. Boston, Massachusetts: Monthly Pitch Night | BostonSpeaks/Impact Hub Open Project Night. Saint-Étienne , France: Rencontres Mondiales du Logiciel Libre 2017. Each month, more than 70 groups hold free events in 24 countries.

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Tech Soup

MAY 7, 2013

NetSquared Local groups hold monthly in-person events for anyone interested in the connection of technology and social impact. They offer an opportunity to convene locally to share ideas, learn from one another, and collaborate on projects for real world impact. Paris, France: CRITICAL MASS – Film - Une Masse Critique.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2009

.  I hope to celebrate my birthday in January with some sort of personal fundraiser/fundraiser to support Cambodian kids (hint, hint) and scanning for ideas. Personal Fundraising, Social Media and Friends Asking Friends all converge to make an incredible impact! A bit more on how the story unfolds. what else can we learn?

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Tech Soup

JUNE 12, 2013

Our organizers hold monthly offline events for anyone interested in the connection of technology and social impact. They offer an opportunity to convene locally to share ideas, learn from one another and collaborate on projects for real world impact. ’s support of the Keystone XL project. Highlights from the Community.

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Care2

AUGUST 16, 2014

The meme then spread to France and the US, and was picked up by media such as Mashable, Huffington Post, MSNBC, ABC, etc. Can You Build a Base of Supporters with Memes? They will need to develop distinct messaging that shows people how ALS could impact them and their families.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 3, 2017

They come to us looking for practical tips and a supportive community. San Francisco, California: Impact Investing 101: Panel Discussion. Paris, France: Demo Day 2 : Présentation des Projets Data for Good. We also learned that. Austin, Texas: 5 Things Every Nonprofit Can Fix on Its Website to Get Results.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

Most importantly, the organization needs to be willing to provide support to help the volunteers do their work. 2000. ^ [2] Lee, Jarene Frances and Julia M. Older Volunteers' Perceptions of Impacts of Volunteering on Their Psychological Well-being." If something is unclear, it is best to ask volunteers what they can do.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 27, 2016

Later in the story, Dupin is offered 50,000 francs as a reward for returning the letter. We’re talking outdated or invalid addresses and deceased supporters still in the data. Now, you might be wondering why something as simple as address and email data can have a big impact on the performance of your nonprofit.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 29, 2010

Food for me is something that impacts all of our lives, and it was a place where I could focus the most of my energy and really impact community, environment, health, soil, air, social equity issues, community building, and how we do, or do not interact with each other. I went to France. What brought you here? They traveled.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 1, 2006

I've posted a couple of times about giving circles, groups of people who get together to learn about an organization's work, and pool their donations to have a greater impact. Hope's Edge: The Next Diet for a Small Planet by Frances Moore Lappe and Anna Lappe. Murray founded the Global Fund for Women.

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Global Giving

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Remote work is creating more widespread workforces, and employees want to support new places. And consumers are demanding that boardrooms consider the impact of their entire supply chains , leading companies to take new responsibility in areas like disaster recovery. And it multiplies impact immensely! LEARN MORE.

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Tech Soup

MAY 9, 2016

Los Angeles, California: Startups for Social Impact: The Pains and Rewards. Busia, Kenya: NetSquared Kenya Supporting Encryption and Journalism. Paris, France: Demo Day : Présentation des Projets Data for Good. Wednesday, May 11, 2016. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: Bagels and Bytes — Butler. Thursday, May 12, 2016.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 25, 2012

And sure, there are also the nuclear believers—folks who've made DRTV work on a sustainable basis, but like the Frances of the world, they tend to be the outliers in the traditional revenue power equation. Organizations are still digging out from the impact this had on their houseflies and the lasting impact on their revenue.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

How will these trends impact nptech? NpTech Tools Sounds like Gavin of Gavin's Digital Diner had a great time sipping Burgundy wines in France, but even better wrote a detailed description of his damn DAM system. They are seeking to fund innovative ideas that support ICT needs of voluntary and community organisations.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 12, 2022

If we post on Facebook to remind our supporters it’s National Pancake Day, then it seems insensitive (for example) to not remember Hanukkah. Becoming aware of other holiday traditions, lessens the likelihood of alienating supporters by being unintentionally culturally insensitive.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 31, 2010

After reading each of her books: Hope's Edge (that she co-authored with her mother, Frances Moore Lappé), Grub (that she co-authored with Bryant Terry), and now her new book, Diet for a Hot Planet: The Climate Crisis at the End of Your Fork and What You Can Do About It , I've felt hopeful and energized. Not Anna Lappé's books.

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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! Explore the work of organizations like the National Geographic Society , Audubon , and The Mars Generation - their impact is out of this world.

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NTEN

MAY 3, 2011

Connect emotionally to your supporters and they'll give! The argument for stories In 2003, John Sadowsky and Loick Roche, two professors at the Grenoble Graduate School of Business in France, reviewed the major academic literature on storytelling and wrote a paper called, "The power of stories: a discussion of why stories are powerful".

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 24, 2007

And a book that had a lot of influence on me early on was Frances Moore Lappe's book, Food First , which basically concludes that hunger and poverty around the developing world are not a function of overpopulation and not enough food production, but rather are the result of a poor distribution of resources. That's the flip side of it.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 8, 2006

In addition to co-authoring Grub with Bryant Terry, Anna also co-authored Hope's Edge with her mother Frances Moore Lappé and is a co-founder, with her mother, of the Small Planet Fund , and a founding principal of the Small Planet Institute , based in Cambridge Massachusetts. We just didn't feel like any one word really summed it up.

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Care2

APRIL 16, 2008

Recently, Haji sat down with Care2s Clint OBrien to reflect on lessons learned over the years, including simple life lessons, as well as more complex lessons about how technology is revolutionizing the way that charities advance their missions, not to mention how nonprofits interact with their donors and supporters. Peer-to-peer fundraising?

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Care2

MARCH 4, 2008

Recently, Haji sat down with Care2s Clint OBrien to reflect on lessons learned over the years, including simple life lessons, as well as more complex lessons about how technology is revolutionizing the way that charities advance their missions, not to mention how nonprofits interact with their donors and supporters. Peer-to-peer fundraising?

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Bloomerang

APRIL 2, 2021

But not only that, what I want to draw your attention to is that 36% of people using social media said they have used it to show support for a cause, which I think for all of us and all of our particular goals and objectives is really important. The customer journey is shortened. People don’t have to know that much about us.

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