Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 14, 2009

Of course, my pragmatic view is that many, many people can simply order books from the UK or India today over the Internet, and I didn't see a reason to deny a person in the developing world a book they need when the publisher didn't bother to publish the book in that country.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 29, 2010

That can mean, for example, language; it can mean architecture; it can mean food; it can mean artisan work, or artistic work. There's a woman in India, Darshan Shah, who started a weavers' co-op. As co-founder of the Global Center for Cultural Entrepreneurship, what role does it play in the field of cultural entrepreneurship?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 7, 2020

World Food Program USA (WFP USA), the US affiliate of the 2020 Nobel Prize-winning United Nations World Food Programme, has beautifully adapted the story of Rani—a precocious student in India who receives meals fortified with micronutrients—for their blog, Facebook, and Instagram.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 15, 2008

In some of the places where we work, women are very often not in professional roles whatsoever, much less the media. I learned to speak the language fluently, and was there at a really intense time in terms of the civil war, and a lot of the political uprisings that were going on. We are pushing an envelope there.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 12, 2009

The program was presented at the Texting for Health Conference this past February, and hopes to provide the tool in multiple languages as well! *. Objective : Increase the visibilty and utilization of the Fair & Lovely Foundation’s scholarship program among women and girls in low-income groups in rural and urban India.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 7, 2013

I''m an engineer and social entrepreneur, trying to make the world a better place for people with disabilities, and I rarely step into the role of vocal advocate. The World Blind Union''s lead negotiator pointed out how these provisions would, in practice, stop Bookshare from serving blind people in India. Here is what is happening.

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2014

We should be vigilant when companies with half-a-billion dollar valuations wrap social good initiatives in shiny, marketing wrappings and assume the language of urban planning. We should also pause and note t he tech sector’s troubling tendency to turn inward while adopting the language of the public square and the commons.

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Bloomerang

MAY 28, 2021

So I’m working with someone and he has an organization based in India. He wanted to talk to a donor, a potential donor, about sponsoring a conference for his staff in India and he used this technique. “More useful tips about language we should use.” ” You can say, “This is really helpful language.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 28, 2007

As I was traveling to 12 countries to interview women artisans, a woman in India said, "Come back in the fall and we'll teach you how to dance the dances that we perform all night to honor the mother god, Durga." One is that women can apply for grants by writing a letter, one page, in their own language, in their own handwriting.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 2, 2008

Therefore, we are the only foundation I know of that will accept requests in any language, and in any format. Almost nowhere else in the world can you go and find the range of nationalities, ethnicities, race, language and backgrounds that you have here--not to mention the delicious food.

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