Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 16, 2014

From people in Latin America who face severe water scarcity to at-risk human rights defenders and students with disabilities, our users and their families are the ones who best convey the impact of our work. Consider third grade student Brennan Draves. Brennan Draves and his mother, Lindsay Draves, at school. billion poor and unbanked.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Boards that are professionally, demographically, and ideologically diverse are more likely to be open to risk tolerance. Be Brave Courage was identified by Meg Ward, Co-Founder of Gravitate Solutions, as the essential quality that enables leaders to govern effectively. Dan Stevens, President Association TV/WorkerBee.TV

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

Part of the meeting featured the students themselves sharing how they used these tools. I did some live demonstrations including Twitter and Flickr. I posted a photo of them on Flickr and asked people on Twitter to share why they thought it was a valuable. The last chapter of the Networked Nonprofit is on networked governance.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 24, 2022

Whether it’s community services, donor relations, governance, volunteer management, or communications, data plays a critical role in telling the story and uncovering the insights required to develop a response. . DLRS is a community-built and community-maintained open source Salesforce solution. Opens new window.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2012

Ushahidi, an open source project originally deployed in Kenya to report post-election violence has since been downloaded and deployed for many other events and disasters, including Haiti, Chile, and Japan. Donors could communicate with the students, and they thanked participants directly – building lasting relationships.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 8, 2011

All interested nonprofits or social enterprises will be able to leverage SocialCoding4Good by posting their open source software development projects for social change and inviting volunteers to work on them. Our goal is to revolutionize the effectiveness of local governments in responding to climate change and other environmental impacts.

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 3, 2017

To provide some relief for these steep rates, the federal government provided ways for households to reduce their taxable income. The charitable deduction is a vital nexus between the general public, the nonprofit organizations they support, and government policy. The war effort was thereby funded by wealthy families.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 21, 2018

Students protested: Gallaudet is an institution that aims to empower deaf students, but had never allowed a deaf individual to ascend to its highest ranks. The same study found that an increase in racial diversity, when coupled with diversity policies, practices and inclusion behaviors, affected governance practices positively.

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Forum One

JULY 1, 2021

Ronunique Clark, Government Services Team – Ronunique recently graduated from Boston College with her Bachelor of Arts in Political Science Ronunique is a Posse Foundation Leadership Scholarship recipient. Valeria Dowd, Strategy Team – Val recently graduated from DePauw University with her Bachelor of Arts in Film Studies.

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Cloud 4 Good

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Western Michigan University (WMU) is a large, public research-intensive university that has been helping students reach their potential through a pursuit of purpose since 1903. Around 20K students find that purpose each year across a range of undergraduate and graduate programs at WMU. Solidifying Student Success.

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Everyaction

JUNE 6, 2018

GLSEN (pronounced "glisten") is a the leading national education organization that works to transform K-12 schools into safe and affirming environments and ensure that LGBTQ students are able to learn and grow in a school environment free from bullying and harassment. LGBTQ Victory Fund.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 25, 2021

the numbers of students you can enroll, patients for whom you have beds, ticket buyers for whom you have seats, etc.), For example: If you’re any type of education program, you can offer learning opportunities to non-enrolled students. You can take art to the schools or bring students to your art. you can still go deeper.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 13, 2010

Government as usual is changing fast, because it needs to. For example, we combined the business strategies of Amazon and (the old) Napster to create Bookshare to bring accessible talking books to students who can't read print books because of their disabilities. And, the opportunities to do so have never been better.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Tutor students so they can reach their potential in school? If you want to increase capacity, open another shelter so more people in need of shelter will be able to find a bed, work closely with existing shelters to understand demand. If you want to help first generation college students, how do you want to help them?

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Our first Impact Lab cohort designed Service Match , an open-source app designed for case managers who connect people experiencing homelessness to vital human services. Our second Impact Lab recently announced the Financial Aid Chatbot to support students as they navigate the FAFSA application.

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Classy

JUNE 21, 2021

New in 2021, Livestrong opened up crowdfunding campaigns for each Solution Grant Partner with hopes to fully fund their five Solutions. Implementing peer-to-peer fundraising into your event can open the door to exponential fundraising potential. times greater than ticketed events. .

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

That means your university is competing with many other higher education institutions across the nation that are all catering to your potential students. This is also known as content governance. UTPB had a well-known issue (coined “The Falcon Shuffle”) where students simply could not find what they were looking for on UTPB’s website.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 18, 2009

Jobs for Change is a career service and jobs marketplace that aims to help people find and develop a career they love in social change (which for them means nonprofit, government, and social enterprise jobs). Are you an organization with job openings - will you list your opening on Jobs for Change?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 19, 2013

Her success fighting against a plan to build a waste transfer station in Hunts Point and then spearheading the South Bronx’s first open-waterfront park in more than 60 years was a turning point. 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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Cloud 4 Good

AUGUST 25, 2022

To that point, leadership positions must prioritize ethics, establish committees designed to check and balance the ethical nature of a company’s technology and utilize governance across the company to ensure staff is educated on the foundation of ethical digital transformation.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 9, 2018

This concept has been pioneered by the Internet Archive with its Open Library can lend a digital copy of a book for a period of time as long as it (or a partner library) owns a physical copy of that book which it holds back from being lent to someone else. All students around the world have access to rich and varied educational content. •

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 1, 2013

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. This map is one of a series of 80 global maps describing the state of terrestrial, freshwater, and marine habitats.

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

Although the laws may give rules and guidelines to follow, government entities and nonprofits are exempt. The discussion goes on and whichever side your organization takes, there is the perception that there is a line of students just waiting to work long hours, with no pay to gain experience. There is no magic trick here.

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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. And the Winners Are… After a few weeks of coding, sourcing ideas, and testing public interest, the projects were again open to the public for voting. How can people fight back?

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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." " Year Up therefore takes a holistic approach to preparing its students for the workforce.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 22, 2012

continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit scholar, student, or professional to. However, Independent Sector and BoardSource recommend that nonprofits voluntarily incorporate certain other provisions of the Act that make good governance sense. Open public access to financial statements. in Residence.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 10, 2013

The diverse crowd, made up of students, activists, government employees, and librarians, worked on datasets presented by the U.S. 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.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 30, 2012

I am a student in the Master of Nonprofit Studies program at Arizona State University and work for the ASU Lodestar Center. They are entrepreneurs, even in places that don’t always welcome them with open arms, they accomplish a lot. Karina Lungo is a graduate student in the MNpS program at Arizona State University.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 25, 2021

For example: If you work in the education sector , you could offer learning opportunities to non-enrolled students. If you’re doing anything worth doing , you could collaborate with businesses, governments, and other nonprofits to address complex problems in a holistic way. Think about your movement, not the current moment in time. .

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Tech Soup

MARCH 26, 2013

There are many different types of hackathons: from company hackathons (such as Facebook's All-Night Hackathon ) to government improvement hackathons (like #HackWeTrust. meets LinkedIn for students. or Code for Oakland ). Another project at the Saturday Hackathon 4 Good was Qeyno , which is described as Khan Academy.

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Forum One

MARCH 25, 2009

As part of Federal stimulus spending, we think the government should expand funding for a very innovative online database project that will help with this transition, a project started at Los Alamos National Laboratory and called the ? s very innovative in its open-source and collaborative approach, it?s Global Energy Observatory ?

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Forum One

MARCH 25, 2009

As part of Federal stimulus spending, we think the government should expand funding for a very innovative online database project that will help with this transition, a project started at Los Alamos National Laboratory and called the ? s very innovative in its open-source and collaborative approach, it?s (See Thomas Friedman?s

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Tech Soup

MARCH 12, 2015

Digital citizenship: In the final stage, communities can use these tools and knowledge to work with governments and affect policy. In January 2013, Dd also hosted a hackathon mainly comprised of local students and programmers, further cultivating ownership and sustainability in the process. Key Challenges in Working in Remote Areas.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Leng Sopharath, Phon Vandy, and CHom Thavy - Sharing Foundation College Students. I was able to raise $850 which helped cover the costs for her to participate in the Sharing Foundation’s college student sponsorship program and send her off to Noroton University with an accounting major in 2006. I love all of you!&#.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 7, 2016

My colleagues and I spent an afternoon of job shadowing at our office with ten students from the high school. I explained why the UN created these goals, how they relate to everyone from individuals to large companies, organizations and governments, and why they matter to us. The students were quite interested in this.

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ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 9, 2015

posted by Megan Norton Graduate Student, ASU Master of Nonprofit Leadership & Management. This is accomplished by fostering an environment of transparency and openness within each organization.

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CauseVox

OCTOBER 11, 2021

The annual 24-hour giving day, created to counter the retail-heavy push that begins with Black Friday, has thousands of nonprofits, businesses, city governments, and other institutions participating in a drive to highlight generosity and partnership for good. Because of that, students know it’s ok to be different.

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