Tech Soup

JANUARY 6, 2010

This year the Global Social Benefit Incubator (GSBI), a joint project of the Skoll Foundation and Santa Clara University's Center for Science, Technology, and Society , will focus on green technology. Now in its eighth year, the Global Social Benefit Incubator is a year-long capacity-building program for leaders of social benefit enterprises.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

An Interview with Ruy Fortini , Founder and CEO of Doare and official partner of the 2018 Global Trends in Giving Report. 1) The Global Trends in Giving Report is meant to help the nonprofit sector better understand individual giving worldwide, but data and statistics don’t communicate well what is happening on the ground in Brazil.

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TechImpact

APRIL 2, 2014

Ultimately, if we want to substantially grow and strengthen our nonprofits, and solve problems on a state wide, national, or even global scale, it is imperative that these questions be answered. Finding a coach or a mentor can immediately impact your nonprofit, and yourself. Choose one big problem. Get a coach.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 2, 2015

TechHire spans the corporate, nonprofit, government, and educational sectors and has the ambitious goal to "give Americans the opportunity they deserve, and the skills they need to be competitive in a global economy." Equal Employment Opportunity Commission : 80 percent of employees were Caucasian at the tech companies it examined.

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NTEN

MAY 28, 2014

In addition to his work in the nonprofit tech arena, he was actively involved with local arts organizations. Eli van der Giessen, TechSoup Community Manager and NetSquared Organizer, shares: "Michael was my guide when I first joined the TechSoup Global Media team two years ago. He was our social media manager.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 29, 2010

That shortchanges Larry’s background: he was the key leader in the campaign to eliminate smallpox in India, cofounded the Seva Foundation and a couple of high tech companies, and was most recently running Google.org. Mousa and I talked about his dream of helping centers for blind people in Iraq get the tech equipment they need.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

The project is called “ Tech2Empower ,” organized by Wake , an organization on a quest to leverage technology for women’s empowerment globally. These organizations will have intensive and hands-on tech training and mentoring during the workshop. In Ukraine, nearly 2 million people are internally displaced.

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Tech Soup

MAY 9, 2012

I've heard a lot employees and managers talk about "needing a mentor." " When I ask them what goals they are looking to accomplish with a mentor, most have no concrete answer. What is a mentor and what do they do anyway? Mentoring Is. Mentoring Is Not. Why does someone want a mentor?

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NTEN

JUNE 19, 2014

Emily Yu of the Case Foundation served as the emcee and interviewer as three social entrepreneurs presented quick pitches about their work and tech products. Pitch #1: Param Jaffi of Ecoviate @paramjaggi @ecoviate • Param is 19 years old and is focused on tech products that help people make sustainable choices and reduce carbon emissions. "I

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Connection Cafe

MAY 7, 2020

Companies have identified global NGO’s such as Americares , World Health Organization , CDC Foundation and Project HOPE for their philanthropic response and local hospital foundations to impact communities within their footprints. Qualified teachers are also struggling to deliver content virtually with little to no technological training.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 4, 2016

Now, I'm no Houdini, but I predict that your New Year's resolutions are noble, high-minded stuff like "find a mentor" or "learn a new skill every month." This roundup of face-to-face nonprofit tech events includes meetups from NetSquared , NTEN's Tech Clubs , and HandsOn Tech.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 1, 2016

Most NetSquared organizers now have a peer mentor. We're a global movement with chapters in 24 countries. Every month, our global network of community organizers hosts Tech4Good events in more than 70 cities. Mississauga, Ontario: Hustle Hour — Tech Entrepreneurs Mastermind. Want to learn about PCI compliance?

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 25, 2022

Tech nonprofit” is an emerging term that refers to a tech startup that is building software or web applications using a nonprofit model for social impact. Fast Forward, a tech nonprofit accelerator, highlighted a few such organizations during their Demo Day 2022 event. Using Tech to Reduce Barriers to Education.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

You can learn more about the m and how they use technology to further their missions on TechSoup Global’s Local Impact Map (LIM). And while you’re at it, c heck out PEC’s and InvestED tech stories on the LIM.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 2, 2014

Now I’m no Houdini, but I predict that your New Year’s resolutions are noble, high-minded stuff like “find a mentor” or “learn a new skill every month.” Toronto, Canada: Tech Planning for 2014: Trends and Best Practices. ” But following through on these plans can be difficult.

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Tech Soup

MAY 23, 2014

TechSoup Global donation partner, Cisco , is starting to talk about an alternative to cloud computing, the paradigm that relies on huge data centers to do all our processing. The tech support nonprofit, TechBridge in Georgia, has launched the first crowdfunding platform for nonprofit technology projects. Earlier this month the U.S.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

This initiative has been made possible through collaboration with Tsofen, a local nonprofit organization launched in 2008 by Arab and Jewish founders to promote high-tech careers in Arab society as a lever for economic development and the creation of a shared society for Arabs and Jews in Israel.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2010

I actually have a repertoire of stories, but one of them is about Michaela Hackner ( Kalabird.) I connected with her through her amazing photos of Cambodia on Flickr when I was covering the Cambodian blogosphere for Global Voices over five years ago. We had to replace one of the speakers and I recommended Michaela.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 7, 2016

I look forward to staying connected with them and plan to do whatever I can to help mentor them as they continue their education and pursue their careers. There were also unexpected discoveries and learning experiences during the day that proved why mentoring is so important.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2006

I've also started a second "intergenerational" or rather in interdecade blog mentoring with Juanita. for world cafe community and global conversations. tech tools to aid in bringing people and conversations together for social change.) We spoke on the phone today. The unfolding being the use of this web 2.0

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 3, 2012

In our 2012 Global Cloud Survey we found that only 12 percent of respondents, mostly from larger organizations, are using cloud-based client relationship management (CRM) database services like Salesforce for Nonprofits , or Microsoft Dynamics CRM. Constituent Overlap.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 18, 2011

As my mentor Ed Kless has stated "today's problems were yesterday's solution." When you need to share this information and create processes to be followed, you are ready to graduate to a CRM system. This is why CRM applications have enjoying such wide acceptance. They are the evolution of a successful organization.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 21, 2011

Now, more than twenty years later, what has become known as social entrepreneurship is a hot global movement that is transforming the ways in which we approach the world’s most pressing problems and in which society organizes itself to solve them. Social entrepreneurship has its own conferences, publications, academic programs and awards.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

As a nonprofit and part of the TechSoup Global Network of 70 civil society organizations, TechSoup has come to rely on Zoom. Zoom is a great tool to help our staff coordinate the delivery of services, but sometimes people think innovative tech like this is itself the entire solution to the challenges facing nonprofits.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Whether you are trying to advance the Sustainable Development Goals , meet the complex challenge of climate change , or any combination of the critical problems of our time , it is clear that no single nonprofit can solve global challenges alone. Jessica is a volunteer with Girl Scouts of Northern California as a STEM and Camp CEO mentor.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 26, 2009

Sex :: Tech Conference - Focus on Youth Using Technology for Social Change (Keynote Moderator) Monday, March 23, 2009 San Francisco, CA Over 400 public health experts, technology innovators, and academic researchers will come together to discuss technology, youth and sexual health. Ill be teaching a blogging class and doing some mentoring.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

As a nonprofit and part of the TechSoup Global Network of 70 civil society organizations, TechSoup has come to rely on Zoom. Zoom is a great tool to help our staff coordinate the delivery of services, but sometimes people think innovative tech like this is itself the entire solution to the challenges facing nonprofits.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 20, 2014

The project will morph in to something called Brigade , a project of Brigade Media , which is a consortium led by Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff and Sean Parker, who founded Napster and mentored Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg. BRIDGE is an acronym for Basic Registry of Identified Global Entities.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 9, 2007

We selected girls and they go out on the road and we get them with great mentors. We tell them: here’s a global forum for you. And they’re already behind globally. It seems like one of the keys is that you are running Braincake more like a tech company than a museum, that you are really able to embrace innovation.

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

One of PresenTense's core activities is the Global Summer Institute , held in Jerusalem. Each fellow is guided by a personal volunteer, mentor, and a coach, who are professionals in different fields. Salesforce helps manage PT's contacts, work flow, fellows and mentors tracking, magazine subscriptions, opportunities, and donations.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 17, 2014

To kick off a series of profiles on leaders in nonprofit technology, we thought we’d start close to home by featuring our TechSoup Global founder, Daniel Ben-Horin. CompuMentor in due course turned into TechSoup when it became a national nonprofit, and TechSoup Global in 2008 after it had become an international organization.

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Qgiv

JULY 21, 2022

hours each day in their social media account 54% of global website views are from a mobile device, like a smartphone or tablet 54.8% For example, instead of simply stating that your nonprofit provides mentors for women of color who work in STEM fields, tell the story of one specific woman and where her mentoring experience has led her.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 9, 2012

A new report, "Digital Citizenship: Exploring the Field of Tech for Engagement", released by the Knight Foundation, explores the potential for technology to improve democracy -- specifically at how it can help people engage with their communities, leaders, and governments. Congratulations to all the winners!

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Bloomerang

MAY 14, 2021

But given the current global uncertainty, are you finding added stresses to your job, worrying about what might be tomorrow or in the coming months? I had already been having conversations over the months prior to that with some of my mentors about making a switch to consulting. So Mimosa, you still have your job. Mimosa: Absolutely.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 24, 2012

Women Who Tech Around the World. Yesterday, I had the honor of participating in the 4th annual Women Who Tech TeleSummit that brings together women breaking new ground in technology who use their tech savvy skills to transform the world and inspire change. What challenges do women who tech in Africa and Middle East face?

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 30, 2007

So, if that's something that's interesting to you, I can definitely talk to you about details afterwards, but my advice to you is, number one: don't be afraid of the tech. So for me, I actually often pick my parents [when writing about technology], because they have dial-up, and they're not very tech-savvy.

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