Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Recently I had the opportunity to get introduced to Gerald Nelson , senior climate change researcher and Professor Emeritus at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Such efforts are necessary to address global nutritional needs in a world facing the challenges of climate change.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 26, 2021

This lab will bring together leaders from across the nonprofit, government, and for-profit sectors to lend their expertise to ideate and co-design technology solutions to advance progress on this issue. For the last 20+ years, she has worked in management with and for nonprofit organizations. Isabella received her B.S.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 8, 2010

Counterproposals have been made, governments have been engaging with rights holders, consumers and NGOs (or not!) Government delegation, as a next step possibility. I think that over the last six months, the US Government has come out in favor of accessibility, splitting with some of its typical EU/rich country partners.

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Global Giving

MARCH 12, 2021

Whether data is on your nonprofit’s radar as a tool for good or not, you will be inspired by the stories of these three organizations. The program provides nonprofits with a team of experts and software that will help organizations leverage their data to drive impact with AI. coli levels in the water are at unsafe levels. LEARN MORE.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

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Candid

JULY 18, 2023

However, their philanthropic gestures are executed with millions, if not billions, of dollars that move global markets and spur governments to action. However, there are also no limits on how an LLCs’ dollars can be spent or public disclosure requirements, like those expected of nonprofits under the Internal Revenue Code.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

An Interview with Fanny Villiers , Directora General of Donadora – an official partner of the Global Trends in Giving Report ( en español ). Our government is discussing providing free wifi throughout in Mexico City which is a very good sign for crowdfunding and even better for NGOs funding. Is online giving growing rapidly as well?

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Saleforce Nonprofit

DECEMBER 8, 2021

The global meeting of leaders, doers, and movement-makers saw new and varied community partnerships and announcements that push traditional boundaries and create cross-sector opportunities for many organizations and communities. University of Maryland. Now, we wait to see what will happen as emerging ideas turn into action.

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Bloomerang

MAY 6, 2021

I’m not sure even the global scientists, engineers, and futurists have a full sense of where we’re heading with AI. As a fundraiser, I understand all of these matters impact nonprofits, and the trend is leaning—hard—toward privacy and donor data protection. . students at Stanford University. So, what changed?

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Tech Soup

JUNE 10, 2013

This hackathon took place at San Francisco State University's Paul J. The diverse crowd, made up of students, activists, government employees, and librarians, worked on datasets presented by the U.S. The participants were tasked with developing digital tools to help nonprofits and government agencies work better together.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 7, 2013

Data Digest is a weekly round-up of the latest news on data-related projects in the nonprofit sector, compiled and authored by Keisha Taylor of GuideStar International and TechSoup Global. Big Data and Global Development. It was originally published on NetSquared.

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Bloomerang

MAY 28, 2021

Natalye Paquin currently serves as the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Points of Light Foundation, the largest nonprofit in the world dedicated to volunteerism and community service. Natalye and Kishshana were called to serve due to their extensive nonprofit backgrounds, and Pam to help make us a best place to work.

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 5, 2020

posted by Jessica Cooper, RD, CD, CSSD, Spring 2020 Alumna, ASU Master of Nonprofit Leadership & Management. workforce and will comprise 75 percent of the global workforce by 2025. There is evidence that millennials thrive in flatter organizational structures with shared governance and peer to peer collaboration.

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Classy

APRIL 29, 2021

Our Leadership Council incorporates a diverse array of expertise and cause affiliations with representation from nonprofit organizations, corporations, foundations, academic institutions, and many more. The Fletcher School & Tisch College of Civic Life, Tufts University. National University. Nonprofit Leaders.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 1, 2013

This map is one of a series of 80 global maps describing the state of terrestrial, freshwater, and marine habitats. It is the result of a collaborative data and data visualization project undertaken by the Nature Conservancy scientists, working with governments, scientists and conservation organizations around the world.

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 6, 2018

If Skip the resolutions and let’s talk about goal setting for your nonprofit. July 1 represents a new fiscal year for many nonprofits, a time to review programs and previous goals to be sure they’re aligned with the mission and to establish new benchmarks. We want your nonprofit to be successful in its mission.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 20, 2010

My latest post on HuffPo is now up: Going to Davos to Redesign the Planet , about my proposal to the WEF's Global Redesign Initiative. What would you propose to global leaders to make humanity better off? Universities and government labs encouraging their technology transfer offices to make social licenses of new technology.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 4, 2012

continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit scholar, student, or professional to. inform and improve day-to-day nonprofit practice. This level of increased global philanthropy is worth a further look. government aid, capital investment, philanthropy and remittances. Universities & Colleges (5%).

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 5, 2013

The Basic Registry of Identified Global Entities (BRIDGE) is a new collaborative project that aims to revolutionize information sharing, in order to better understand the flows of philanthropic dollars and enhance transparency and effectiveness in the global social sector. … VV: Why do we need a new numbering system?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 9, 2018

Third, the print book is not universally accessible. By this, I am not just talking about the publishing business, but also the nonprofit libraries committed to universal accessibility. Together with the World Blind Union and other campaigners, we set out to get a global treaty that would not only replicate the U.S.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 9, 2013

Together with our partners in the nonprofit, technology, government, academic and publishing sectors, we participate in new cultural and technological movements, deriving new knowledge that we apply for social gain. Digitization and globalization are giving rise to growing publishing markets that promise new business opportunities.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 16, 2008

The incoming Obama administration is pledging to use some innovative internet strategies to expand citizen access to government information and processes. government CTO, spoke about how DC has created more than 200 data feeds on D.C. A tall order. For example, Vivek Kundra, the Washington, D.C. city issues and indicators.

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Tech Soup

JULY 18, 2017

Our theme this month is educational nonprofits like The Luciano Bareto Júnior Institute in Brazil. We'd also like to introduce Bea Dominguez, who is writing about some of the nonprofits highlighted on the map. Education Is a Major Nonprofit Activity. Even in the U.S., Meet Bea Dominguez. spanhidden.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 17, 2014

Universal City Studios, Inc., As a different kind of Silicon Valley tech company—a nonprofit with a pure focus on social good—our goal is to see that the best of technology gets applied to social needs left unaddressed by for-profit businesses. We called this idea Bookshare , which is now Benetech’s largest Global Literacy initiative.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 18, 2016

Today we are highlighting the work of Thom Reilly , Director of the Morrison Institute for Public Policy at Arizona State University. The Great Recession and its aftermath have forced nonprofits to seek out new and different ways to address their challenges. This article was originally published by Taylor & Francis Online.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 19, 2013

Education was her way out, but when she signed up for graduate studies at New York University, she returned to live with her parents and became involved in and reacquainted with her neighborhood. open source design or DIY manufacturing) to create customized products in small batches and the global reach of the Internet to sell them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

But I also got the opportunity to learn and hear Rob Reich, associate professor of political science, Stanford University, and faculty co-director, Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society (Stanford PACS) and Lucy Bernholz, visiting scholar, Stanford PACS present their research in a talk called “New Skills for the New Social Economy.”

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

It’s why the great majority of accessibility work is done by volunteers, charities, and with government support. under a terrific exception to copyright that makes it possible for a nonprofit like ours to simply provide accessible books to people with disabilities. For example, we run Bookshare in the U.S.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

Our theme this month is educational nonprofits like The Luciano Bareto Júnior Institute in Brazil. We'd also like to introduce Bea Dominguez, who is writing about the nonprofits highlighted on the map. Education Is a Major Nonprofit Activity. Not enough people really know what NGOs and nonprofits do for the world.

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 31, 2016

Meet the folks who are here to help you and your nonprofit succeed! She brings to the Center a wealth of knowledge and a wide array of experience in the nonprofit sector and beyond. Energetic, philosophical, and dedicated to the nonprofit sector and volunteerism. I have two – governance and philanthropy. Pat Lewis Sr.

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Tech Soup

JULY 16, 2013

When there's no transparency and accountability in government, citizens feel powerless and deceived by the politicians that represent them. The project is designed to be available to citizens 24 hours a day and aims to increase the government's communication efficiency. How can people fight back? Through technology!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

As I was listening to the panels surrounded by global social innovators, the multiple meaning of the word “social” struck me. Kriss led the development of a new mission and strategy that has established CSI as a global leader in the emerging social innovation field. conference (Rio+2.0: This post was originally published here.

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Care2

JULY 23, 2012

Ghazal manages the North American offices of Engaging Networks, a global eCRM software company, servicing organizations such as Oxfam, Save the Children, PETA, World Vision, CARE, Humane Society International, and many more. Eric Rardin -- Senior Director of Nonprofit Services, Care2.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 27, 2010

The benefits of collocating the social entrepreneurs in one place has been proven in past years: a large amount of the value of attending the WEF is meeting with global social entrepreneur colleagues, and trading notes about the best ways to change the world for the better.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 15, 2010

I worked for the Chalkboard Project fresh out of university, a nonprofit organization founded and fueled by Foundations for a Better Oregon, a coalition of foundations in Oregon focused on collaborating to make a meaningful impact to issues in Oregon – in the case of the Chalkboard Project, that focus was on public education reform.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 10, 2014

When we hear about nonprofits like Community Technology Alliance (CTA), we get really excited. While such a program currently exists as a government benefit, Lifeline, many homeless or severely low-income people haven't heard of it or aren't using it. Recently, tech company Zendesk teamed up with San Francisco nonprofits St.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 30, 2012

continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit expert to. inform and improve day-to-day nonprofit practice. I am a student in the Master of Nonprofit Studies program at Arizona State University and work for the ASU Lodestar Center. Other examples are Global Giving , the Skoll Center and Ashoka.

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