Tech Soup

MARCH 11, 2009

LifeLines India allows them to call in and —using a voice activated system in their local language — get advice about their needs. This sustainable model has been in progress for over two years with measurable success. read more.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Delivering Benetech''s statement to the WIPO diplomatic conference That’s why I’ve been actively advocating for a global copyright exception modeled after the great exception in the United States that made Bookshare possible. We’re going to demonstrate what this could look like by piloting Bookshare International at scale in India.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 9, 2014

Philanthropy plays a role beyond what governments could do—allowing for the testing of innovative models that are responsive to local cultural contexts—and then looks to government for scaling up successful efforts. This is where philanthropy comes in.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 29, 2009

This is a guy who as his daughter put it, piled books onto a little vegetable cart and trundled it into the market place so that the common man in small town India would be exposed to the literature of Tolstoy, Gibran, Ruskin and others. Tags: India Meghani Bookshare Gujarati. And he worked to abridge and translate much of their work.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 20, 2009

Situated on the banks of the Vellayani fresh water lake, on the outskirts on Thiruvananthapuram in Kerala, India , IISE is a testimony to social enterprise at its very best. The participants would get hands on training at a non profit organization in India and will train in all aspects of non profit management.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Recently, Social Misfits Media’s Community Manager, Angharad Francis, interviewed the brilliant Pushpa Aman Singh, Founder of GuideStar India. In this interview, Pushpa discusses her journey prior to founding GuideStar India, her role in helping NGOs and how WhatsApp is driving strong communication among stakeholders.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2014

Moreover, we recently held a two-day workshop in New York City, bringing together a wide range of activists and funders, developing a model we plan to replicate around the world. The Lavelle Foundation is supporting us to expand Bookshare in India, which will likely be our first full-scale replication of Bookshare outside the U.S.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

DECEMBER 8, 2022

The Salesforce architecture is actually the simplest piece because it’s built on a common data model. It’s not just useful for offline situations like interviewing people in rural India. SK: I have been involved in this project since I met Trish in India in 2018. That would be a dead end for a nonprofit working on their own.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 15, 2010

The phrase “bottom of the pyramid” is used in particular by people developing new models of doing business that deliberately target that demographic, often using new technology. I shared the story of how Pratham Books used Twitter to help get children's books to children in rural India. Tags: india.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 19, 2006

Just after returning from India and Bangladesh, I received word that one of my key contacts and hosts had suddenly passed away. Visually impaired his entire life, he was a tireless advocate for the blind and visually impaired as well as a shining role model.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

There are many creative ways to engage participants at a training - both face-to-face and online. One technique is to incorporate movement – from mini-stretch breaks, to self-assessment exercises to switches in the delivery model. In India, I designed the first one to celebrate the local culture: It was called “Bollywood Moment.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Lighting of the lamp is a traditional way to begin a conference here in India. Can we come up with creative models to build new industries to serve the world in a way that hasn't be done before? Tags: india. I'm still very jet-lagged and adjusting to both the time zone and culture in Mumbai.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 11, 2013

With this three-part blog series on our expansion of the proven Bookshare model internationally, we’d like to give you a glimpse into the ways in which Benetech provides people with disabilities around the world equal access to knowledge.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 27, 2008

Their model is to charge 30-40% of their patients enough to pay for their costs as well as the rest of the patients, as well as something extra (which generates funds for capital expansion). India and the region seem to specialize in these kinds of approaches. Certainly, this is an example of where it works well.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

exception model works well here. And we’re now making this happen in countries beyond the United States who, like India, have implemented Marrakesh without commercial limitation provisions. We now have volunteers throughout India adding local language titles such as Tamil into Bookshare.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 13, 2016

He seems to define social entrepreneurs as rapacious for-profit businesspeople who are modeling “themselves on the Steve Jobses and Mark Zuckerbergs of the world.” People who start novel organizations like Ashesi University in Ghana, Technology Access Foundation in Seattle, and Shanti Bhavan (a boarding school) in India.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2011

I’ve had the opportunity to work in Canada, Australia, Cambodia, Romania, India, UK, and Africa and enjoy the extra dimension of understanding different cultures as part of the instructional and learning process. Transparency is one of the ideas and, of course, we’ll be modeling this. This year my birthday (Jan.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 9, 2013

Penguin, he points out, is a growing power in China, India and Brazil, while Random House is pervasive across Spanish-speaking Latin America. Please stay tuned for the next and final installment in this three-part blog series on our work to expand the proven Bookshare model internationally.

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Tech Soup

MAY 23, 2016

New Models: How Do We Create New Operational Practices and Business Models to Revolutionize the Existing Labor Market? At the same time, new practices and models must help these workers adjust to and succeed in this evolving employment landscape. Heller Award from the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship. spanhidden

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 23, 2007

Mirai Chatterjee of the Self Employed Women's Association in India explains social entrepreneurs as private initiatives that used business models around financial sustainability, self-help and empowerment. He pointed out that SEs are all about breaking away from charity and alms giving and focusing on pragmatic problem solving.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

It is a game changer, and a great opportunity to improve communication and collaboration, but also great opportunity to develop disruptive new business and delivery models. New Models of Social Change. New Business Models -- Innovative new ways of doing business for social change are emerging by those nonprofits embracing the cloud.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

It is a game changer, and a great opportunity to improve communication and collaboration, but also great opportunity to develop disruptive new business and delivery models. New Models of Social Change. New Business Models -- Innovative new ways of doing business for social change are emerging by those nonprofits embracing the cloud.

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Tech Soup

JULY 27, 2015

Other Smart Cane Models. According to ASSISTECH, it is available in India, the United States, and other select countries. The GPS feature will help the user with directions, also by way of the earpiece. The piece uses vibrations to communicate information so the user can focus on other sounds. Concerns About Smart Canes.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 4, 2014

Google Global Impact Award competitions have been held in India and the UK, and most recently in the San Francisco Bay Area. It is also developing a scalable model and toolkit for other communities to do the same work. We were shocked when we saw the 25 winners of the big $100,000 to $500,000 Google Impact Challenge Awards.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

User generated content, and the hope of monetizing it through advertising, is at the core of the business model of almost all social media platforms. Other initiatives, like Vote Report India or the Pink Chaddi Campaign , start off with a strong focus on Collaboration around a specific event. However, the focus is on Content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2013

Understanding and mapping your network is one of the indicators in my “Crawl Walk Run Fly” maturity of practice model and looks something like this: Click to see larger image. GuideStar India - Networked NGO Workshops - Packard Grantees. Ventura County Community Foundation - March, 2013. Radio Bilingue.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 19, 2011

To further reach their goals, SAP is going beyond their traditional giving model to make an impact through technology — an idea that makes them a great partner with TechSoup. Instead of soliciting donations, this work is based on the idea that people can take care of themselves if given the opportunity. Tech for Good.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 8, 2010

Right now, it’s not in great shape: • No global exception norm, but voluntary agreement by rightsholders (that’s today’s status quo), with model agreements that are terrible from the nonprofit/library side. More restrictive disability definitions, using a medical model, excluding learning and cognitive disabilities in general. •

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

The learning model is called “SAVI ” : Moving and doing (Somatic). When I taught Networked Nonprofit workshops for NGOs from India and Pakistan , all the examples and even the icebreakers were relevant. With evaluation, take into account the “ Kirkpatrick Model of Training ”. Talking and hearing (Auditory).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

There are now 990 actively engaged Fellows— across the five focal countries of Ethiopia, Nigeria, India, Pakistan, and the Philippines—regularly participating in the Leadership Development for Mobilizing Reproductive Health network activities. Eugene talked about the importance of modeling to create. "You Modeling the norm.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 19, 2012

Several models also come with Symantec Norton Antivirus 2012 with system restore capabilities. To be specific, they are our partners in Australia , New Zealand , Germany , France , Italy , India , Poland , and Romania. Our average monthly distribution of PCs (and other IT devices) is now up to around 700 units per month.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2006

A way to keep alive the ancient tales of India and storytelling in India. Scholarships, Role Models (more women making games) How to build change: design games build tools to allow others to design games (example - funded by MacArthur - game to allow kids to design games) design as make-a-game.nl Did the prototyping with kids.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

I am very excited about upcoming peer learning projects that I’m working on in 2012, including several for Packard grantees in India, Pakistan, and Africa as well as the e-Mediat project in the Middle East. A few days ago I opened the door on a new learning journey. Begin Connections.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 20, 2005

As education-committee chairwoman Nancy Benkof explained: "In struggling regions such as Africa, rural India and the Middle East, the sale of locally produced folk art can provide income to feed families, educate children and stabilize lives disrupted by war and dislocation." Tom Aageson father The Purpose Prize

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 5, 2011

Philanthropist organisations come together using a “fortress model” to counter fraud and lack of trust and to help protect their reputation. It tries to identify not only hackers but those technologists who promote positive social change in a very challenging environment. They do more work locally than globally.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Note from Beth: Lately, a question on my mind is whether or not the concept of Networked Nonprofits is a global one as I’ve had the opportunity to share some of the ideas beyond the US borders in Kenya and UK. I think Pratham Books , an NGO in India, is a networked nonprofit. Creative Commons to the rescue.

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See3

NOVEMBER 12, 2007

The New York organization last year collected more than 60 hours of footage of the organization’s workers and volunteers helping AIDS patients in Uganda, tsunami victims in India, and poor residents of El Salvador, and it soon plans to use that extra footage for an extensive online video campaign.

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