Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 15, 2010

New ideas for Benetech projects come to us from interesting people all the time. The challenges that people bring are rarely technology problems: they are market problems. Rebecca was looking for help with a familiar problem. Tags: social entrepreneurs Rice global health social enterprise Social innovation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 11, 2017

The Mobilisation Lab (MobLab) has existed for a few years as the internal innovation lab for the Greenpeace’s campaigns globally. Going forward the MobLab will be working collaboratively with capacity builders to further define this challenge and pilot solutions and new projects.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 8, 2020

By Elizabeth Ngonzi , is an Adjunct Faculty at New York University Center for Global Affairs where she teaches Digital Storytelling, Innovation and Fundraising. She has worked with Candid, Cornell University, the United Nations, and Vital Voices Global Partnerships, among others.

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Forum One

JUNE 11, 2024

We apply our passion to support clients addressing the most critical global issues,” said Forum One CEO Elisabeth Bradley. Colin brings decades of experience applying digital expertise and experience to help nonprofit and government clients solve problems. I’m thrilled he’ll be sharing that expertise with our team and clients.”

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Saleforce Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Before the COVID-19 pandemic hit, Venture2Impact (V2I) — a nonprofit organization based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada — had a business model that was entirely based on global travel. Volunteer Alliance Projects. Clearly, the V2I team needed a quick pivot to a new way to achieve their mission.

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.orgSource

DECEMBER 19, 2022

In fact, according to Gallup about 85 percent of people in the global workplace are either not engaged or disengaged. People who laugh together are better equipped to meet challenges and solve problems as a group. One of the first projects we supported was to build an Alexa integration into the database. Take Fun Seriously.

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Cloud 4 Good

DECEMBER 9, 2021

As a senior leader with many years of consulting experience with a Big4 in digital transformation projects, Julie has always been committed to solve the most challenging problems for her clients. Location: Calgary, Alberta.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Data for Inclusion: Enabling people with disabilities to provide firsthand reports on the issues they face to inform policy at the local, national, and global level. Helped environmental leaders design, manage, monitor, and evaluate global conservation projects and campaigns with the first open source conservation project management tool.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

11) Global Goods Partners :: globalgoodspartners.org. Global Goods Partners have partnered with over 60 artisan groups in more than 20 countries throughout Asia, Africa, and the Americas to help bring to market the fair trade, handcrafted products they produce. 10) Tote Project :: thetoteproject.com.

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.orgSource

MARCH 28, 2023

A global biological disaster was unique in our current experience. Yes, it involves assessing the situation and addressing problems. My business partner, Dan Kasprow, and I had been working on some large project implementations. It’s a word that deserves a prominent place in every management team’s playbook.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2014

Project AWARE Goes Deep on Engagement, Turning Scuba Divers into Citizen Scientists – guest post by Darren Barefoot. New information collected by citizen scientists provides an underwater view into the growing problem of ocean trash. Project AWARE has always hosted beach and ocean cleanup events around the world.

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.orgSource

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Back in 2017, McKenzie reported that: “By 2030, 75 million to 375 million workers (3 to 14 percent of the global workforce) will need to switch occupational categories. Lifelong learners, problem-solvers, innovators, and creative thinkers don’t want to work in an intellectual vacuum.

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Pamela Grow

JANUARY 11, 2024

We faced a global pandemic, resulting in oftentimes disastrous fundraising. The latest numbers from the Fundraising Effectiveness Project (FEP), reveal the number of donors industrywide fell for the ninth straight quarter in Q3 2023. Eroding Trust The loss of trust is now a global problem. Decreasing Giving and Inflation.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 24, 2020

Augmented reality, however, takes virtual items and projects them on the real world. To start, bring the problems your organization wants to fix into the light. million that other streamers raised during a global #HopeFromHome streaming event that took place on April 7th, 2020. This number is a fraction of the $1.7

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Forum One

MARCH 8, 2009

web projects we think the federal government should fund. These are internet-related projects which we think are worthy of funding because they address important civic problems, they will catalyze important work by others, they are imminently scalable, and they are projects which the private sector lacks sufficient incentives to undertake.

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Forum One

MARCH 9, 2009

Bill Gates, in his recent famous mosquito-releasing speech , talked about the economic impact of the burden of disease: for example, the 200 million people who are sick with malaria at any given time aren't able to contribute, solve problems, get educated, or help make the world a better and safer place. The Global Health area on change.org.

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Achieve

AUGUST 13, 2015

a global humanitarian organization dedicated to ending the clean water crisis in developing countries. a month for three months – at the end of which you’ve raised $5,000, enough for a fully funded water project. The problem with Millennials and fundraising isn’t that this generation doesn’t care enough to actually give.

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Forum One

MAY 19, 2022

Today is Global Accessibility Awareness Day (WAAD)—a day to recognize and promote the importance of digital access and inclusion for people with disabilities and impairments. To help celebrate, here are five things you can do to help ensure your next digital product, project, or service makes the web a more inclusive place.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 5, 2022

It’s no secret that as a global society we’ve had a few changes thrown at us in the last few years. Even aside from a global pandemic, an ever changing landscape of technology and politics have caused all of us to have to navigate change. Remedial Change – when a problem is identified and a solution is implemented.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 8, 2010

The treaty does a lot of things, but let me highlight a few: • A global norm that there be copyright exceptions that allow for the making of accessible versions of copyrighted works for free on a nonprofit basis by a broad range of people or organizations, without having to get permission from the rightsholders. law today. •

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2013

I was honored to be invited to cover this year’s Global Philanthropy Forum , a community of donors and social investors committed to international causes. ” with Jacob Harold , Guidestar; Robert Kirkpatrick , UN Global Pulse; Mayur Patel , Knight Foundation. Global Pulse @rgkirkpatrick. gpf13 #philanthropy.

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Forum One

MAY 20, 2021

Today is Global Accessibility Awareness Day (WAAD)—a day to recognize and promote the importance of digital access and inclusion for people with disabilities and impairments. To help celebrate, here are five things you can do to help ensure your next digital product, project, or service makes the web a more inclusive place.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MAY 25, 2022

Climate anxiety is seriously affecting our youth: In a recent global survey of 10,000 young people aged 16–25, 59% were very or extremely worried about climate change, and 83% said they think people have failed to take care of the planet.

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Candid

AUGUST 29, 2023

There are practically endless combinations of demands and resources, so even people on the same project may experience different levels of burnout. Why burnout is rampant in the nonprofit sector Burnout is a problem everywhere; however, there is reason to believe the nonprofit sector is being hit especially hard.

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fusionSpan

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Anuja More Senior Consultant I am a seasoned Senior Salesforce Consultant with a decade of expertise in both Salesforce and non-Salesforce projects. This approach is a lesson I’ve inherited from my grandparents, who, when faced with problems, would mock the issues and find humor in them. ” We Are Hiring!

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Forum One

MARCH 25, 2009

"(T)o provide a platform for understanding, visualizing and analyzing global energy systems that will help the world accelerate the transition to cheap clean energy for all." Global Energy Observatory ? s focused on an important problem ? See Thomas Friedman? We think GEO should be funded because: it?s We think it?s

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Forum One

MARCH 25, 2009

"(T)o provide a platform for understanding, visualizing and analyzing global energy systems that will help the world accelerate the transition to cheap clean energy for all.". There has been a rising consensus that we need to transform our global energy system to reduce energy usage and to shift to less carbon intensive energy sources.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 24, 2022

We all know that hunger is a complex and growing problem. Food insecurity threatens to worsen as households continue to face setbacks due to COVID-19, fears of a global recession, and the highest increase in inflation rates and food prices seen in the last 40 years. and supporting small farmers in remote areas globally.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MAY 19, 2021

Think about that for a moment — we have over 300 consulting and product partners that are serving thousands of organizations and institutions globally. OFM: A Model for Partner Participation in Open Source Community Projects. Do we recognize the signs of these problems? Senior Director, Global Partner Engagement, Salesforce.org.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

This is the problem that Foundation Center, GlobalGiving, GuideStar, and TechSoup have set out to solve by creating BRIDGE (Basic Registry of Identified Global Entities). These can be nongovernmental organizations, programs, and projects or other entities in the social sector, including schools and churches. spanhidden.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 4, 2010

As a capacity-building organization for the global nonprofit and social benefit sector, we at TechSoup are very conscious of the need to understand and work within different cultural contexts for philanthropy. They tend to focus on curing symptoms (giving money to those in need) rather than solving social problems. read more.

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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. Read on to learn more about the project.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 10, 2013

Open source champion Brian Behlendorf spoke at the event, encouraging the hackers to focus on finding an interesting problem to solve rather than worrying about building a sustainable model. Another project was creating an easily accessible map of Hawaii's farmer's markets. Honolulu Day of Civic Hacking.

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sgEngage

APRIL 2, 2024

This can cause problems when tasks fall through the cracks or emails go to inboxes that no longer exist. Some solutions like Blackbaud Grantmaking even have a batch update tool that enables users to make global changes to a group of records. Hiring and staff turnover are common occurrences for nonprofits and grantmaking organizations.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Based on data gleaned from the 2017 Global NGO Online Technology Report , below are 27 stats about how NGOs worldwide are using online technology. 92% of global NGOs have a website. 92% of global NGOs have a website. 92% of global NGOs have a Facebook Page. 32% of global NGOs have a written social media strategy.

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NTEN

AUGUST 1, 2011

may prove to be a key resource for solving some of our most pressing real-world problems," according to game designer Jane McGonigal in The Wall Street Journal. Gamers are already helping tackle real-world problems, just by playing games. Taking It Global: Millennium Development Goals match game. Why are games important?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 9, 2014

This topic was center-stage at this year’s Global Philanthropy Forum. Gallucci noted that there was one statistic that matters to him: “There are 39 million girls globally that should be in secondary education, and who are not.” It provides returns for decades.

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