Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Judy Heumann (left) moderating the panel on empowering the world''s billion people with disabilities On the second day of the CGI Annual Meeting, I announced Benetech’s Commitment to Action : Leveraging Technology to Bring Books to the Blind in India. Our commitment was selected as an exemplary approach to addressing a global challenge.

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JUNE 19, 2015

India is home to 70 million people with different needs and abilities. WORTH, which stands for Workshop for Rehabilitation and Training of the Handicapped, aims to create opportunities for vocational training and avenues for employment for people with different needs in India. " — Myke Nunes, deputy manager of marketing.

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APRIL 7, 2022

Established in 2020 as an independent entity, the WHO Foundation complements and strengthens the work of WHO and its global network of partners by mobilizing new funding from diverse sources—including philanthropists, corporate entities, and the public—to power WHO’s mission. Setting up a Secure, Yet Flexible Platform.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 3, 2017

Source: United Nations Population Fund. 4) China currently has the highest population in the world, however, by 2050 India will be the most populated country at 1,676 million (compared to China’s 1,387 million).

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MARCH 8, 2020

501(c)(3) nonprofit based in Bangalore, India. The organization is accredited by one of the strongest academic curricula in India, the Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE), and conducts the ICSE and ISC exams for students in grades 10 and 12. Shanti Bhavan Children’s Project. Conclusion.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2008

He lives in India. Ten years later, Dr.Mani's team has raised over $100,000 and funded heart surgery in 23 children, with many more to follow. I feel honored to have been introduced to your work with children in India and your expertise in social media from my good friend, Roger Carr, who is helping with the bloggers campaign.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 28, 2017

Wildlife SOS , based in India, also requires donors to choose whether they want their donation to be processed in U.S. Of the 25 nonprofits donated to, 22 have a monthly giving option featured on their donation page. Two of the 25 had monthly giving set as the default on their donation page. Dollars, Euros, British Pounds, or Indian Rupees.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 7, 2013

We’re making securing new funding for Bookshare’s international expansion a top priority! We began with Hindi and Tamil, two of the most-spoken languages in India, and have recently added Arabic, which opened up our services to countries all across the Middle East and Northern Africa.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 6, 2010

"Americans think it takes a lot of money to make a difference," according to Rajesh Haridas, chief operating officer of Vibha , an almost entirely volunteer-run organization that aims to improve the lives of underprivileged youth in India and elsewhere. read more.

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Global Giving

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Raising money for personal causes, and medical fundraising, in particular, is having a moment in places like India with crowdfunding websites like GlobalGiving’s partner, Impact Guru. Just last month, Google launched Tez , an “audio QR” payment solution for mobile phone users in India. 1,171,000,000.

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AFP Blog

MAY 12, 2015

Bikers ride for Nepal, raise donations online - The Times of India : "Namma Kudla bikers' hearts beat for the quake-ravaged Nepal.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 8, 2020

To confront these challenges, a nonprofit should ensure that its digital storytelling adheres to four essential guideposts: Transparency speaks to a nonprofit’s ability to demonstrate its legitimacy as a good steward of donated funds by, for example, sharing its audited financial statements and other, similar information.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

We’re already delivering services at scale in three other countries—Canada, the UK, and India. We have baseline funding to sustain the core platform: we can serve the rest of the world for less than it costs to deliver the service in the U.S. This one does. We just need the resources to scale.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 13, 2015

Mission: To improve access and quality of education for 4 million children living in underserved communities in India. Mission: To fund social entrepreneurs in the developing world through crowdfunding. Mission: To establish wildlife sanctuaries by acquiring land and through partnerships with landholders. United States.

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AFP Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2015

Video: Facebook Says Thank You to Its Users for Donating Millions During Nepal Earthquake - India Real Time - WSJ : "Six months on, funds worth more than $15 million have been raised through the feature, according to the social-media company, and on Tuesday, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg posted a video chronicling how the money had been spent, from (..)

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

Don’t load the Treaty up on with arcane processes that waste scarce funding for no benefit. If our Bookshare team is trying to help a blind student in India get a book she needs for university, make it easy for us to do that. The base draft accomplishes that, and mirrors the effective exception in the U.S.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 14, 2012

Do nonprofits have an obligation to consider morality of the sources of their funding? Much of the “good” done throughout history has been financed by what one could call “repentant sinners,” such as Carnegie with his libraries, funded by the exploitation of labor in the days of the robber barons. Has anyone ever confronted this issue?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 17, 2009

Get this: the funding decisions on their new clean water projects are made by peer project leaders. It never ceases to amaze me: the cool social entrepreneurs that I get to meet all the time, coming up with mind-blowing innovative ways to accomplish social good. You're known by the company you keep!

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

We have a partnership with the Worth Trust in Chennai, India, to do data entry for Bookshare.org, funded by the Lavelle Fund. OK, there were no computers when I was growing up in India but the current going "off" was very common. I blogged about it in May: Scanning in Tamil Nadu.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

I've just returned from a trip to India where there is a different approach to solving complex social problems using social media and the Internet. He told me about their crowd sourcing for social good strategy to find an affordable, and clean energy solution for India's poor population. How can these goals be balanced?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

You can purchase Kiva Cards which then can be redeemed by your gift recipient to fund a loan of his or her choosing. A microfinance nonprofit working to uplift entrepreneurs out of poverty worldwide, this is great holiday gift for those subscribe to the belief of giving a hand-up, not a handout. [ Buy Kiva Cards ].

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 27, 2008

Thanks to funding from the Lavelle Fund, we've been able to set up a scanning facility to produce books there. The Times of India covered the story during my visit, Disabled in city help blind in US. Plus, as we get more permissions from India publishers, we'll be able to source English language books locally.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

We’re going to demonstrate what this could look like by piloting Bookshare International at scale in India. We just announced a Commitment to Action at the Clinton Global Initiative , to increase our impact in India by an order of magnitude. The Treaty was signed on the spot by over 50 countries. especially veterans with disabilities.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 27, 2008

Their model is to charge 30-40% of their patients enough to pay for their costs as well as the rest of the patients, as well as something extra (which generates funds for capital expansion). India and the region seem to specialize in these kinds of approaches. This was Dr V's retirement project!

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2014

I have disruptive approaches to social innovation in mind, with an increasingly connected society where the cost of prototyping and deploying new products is extremely low, and where innovation is no longer the sole purview of well-funded for-profit corporations. We deliver philanthropic donors exciting returns on their investments (i.e.,

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AFP Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2009

PRESS ReleaseNonprofits Using Social Media to Engage and Share, Says Sage North America Survey | SYS-CON INDIA: "AUSTIN, TX -- (Marketwire) -- 10/28/09 -- Sage North America today announced the results of its recently conducted social media survey for nonprofit organizations in the U.S. and Canada.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 21, 2015

Zawadi has launched her own consulting firm and works with African nonprofits and social change activists on their social media and crowd funding campaigns. 50% had never participated in a crowd funding campaign. Most donors were from Nairobi. 50% heard about the campaign via Twitter.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Government funding is slim, and not available in most of the world. Canada, and the UK all fund our work, with a focus on serving their citizens. And we’re now making this happen in countries beyond the United States who, like India, have implemented Marrakesh without commercial limitation provisions.

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MAY 16, 2022

Illuminate India and Clubhouse Guatemala both completely cover the cost of many of the children in their programs with monthly sponsors. This way, Unity Farm Sanctuary can rely on steady funding for me and all my fellow farm friends and really focus on our needs. Please make a difference in their lives today.”. Current volunteers.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

The recent Indian copyright amendment that creates an exception similar to Section 121 in the United States, which makes it possible for us to set up a Bookshare-style crowd-sourced library in India with local partner NGOs. How to legally minimize the import duties on tablets and smartphones that are donated to us in the U.S., What’s next?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2016

Early last year my colleague Noel Dickover and his co-workers at PeaceTech Lab organized a workshop in Mumbai, India to help activists use technology and media to prevent gender based violence. These young girls are growing up in the Dharavi neighborhood of Mumbai India, one of the largest slums in the world. The Tech Girls of Dharavi.

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Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Illuminate India has a fabulous video on their home page : 6. The post 6 Ways to Get Your Nonprofit Website Ready to Boost Holiday Giving appeared first on Get Fully Funded. Videos are the most powerful format for storytelling and turning viewers into donors. Here are some tips for making better videos. Update your blog.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

Even though Benetech doesn’t have donor funding for this, our VP of Global Literacy, Betsy Beaumon, and I thought it would be worthwhile to attend this meeting. We also ended up talking about many other issues around getting more books to disabled people, the common goal of all of the attendees.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 29, 2010

Conversation One Just as I finished my breakfast, I looked across the way and saw Larry Brilliant, the new head of the Skoll Urgent Threats Fund.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 1, 2012

The project is designed and implemented by IIE/Sub-Saharan Office and funded by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation PRH program.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 22, 2014

It is a moving one and a half minute video about the struggle of untouchable caste Dalit children in India to grow up and be as successful as more advantaged children. The Freedom To Dream video by Dalit Freedom Network in Vancouver, BC, Canada was the grand prize winner in 2013. Please visit the site to view this video).

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Before and during her studies, she conducted field research for governmental and non-governmental organizations, as well as foundations, on maternal and child health in Sri Lanka, Ghana, Haiti, Somalia, Uganda, Kenya and India. You can listen and subscribe to the Big Vision Podcast via iTunes , or on the player above.

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