Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 20, 2015

She runs a for-profit social enterprise named Daproim that provides data entry services using disadvantaged students as their primary workforce. Samasource connected us with Daproim in Nairobi to proofread books for our Bookshare project. Steve went to India for more tests. We go way back with her firm. and we needed more help.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

DECEMBER 8, 2022

How has participating with the Commons program helped this project? Getting fresh eyes on the project at every Community Sprint event helps us develop something that can be really useful for the community, not just what we want to build. It’s not just useful for offline situations like interviewing people in rural India.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

Our Bookshare team has also been working on a special project with Qatar’s Mada Assistive Technology Center to add Arabic-language books to the collection. In the rural region of Ranipet in Tamil Nadu, India, 500 Bookshare texts, which had their spines removed for scanning, have been acquired by the Vedavalli Vidyalaya school.

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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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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

students, we also serve adults, seniors, veterans, and international subscribers in over 40 countries. We’re going to demonstrate what this could look like by piloting Bookshare International at scale in India. Our flagship Martus software project marks its tenth anniversary of bringing strong crypto to human rights activists.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2014

The Global Literacy team, led by VP & General Manager Betsy Beaumon, just celebrated our latest major milestones: serving 300,000 members, the majority of whom are American students with disabilities, and offering 250,000 accessible books on the virtual shelves of our library.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 18, 2008

The main reason for my visit to South India was the National Seminar on Print Access For All, which was organized by the dynamic Mr. Krishnaswamy. He has taken on delivering print access as his personal project after his retirement from a senior police force role.

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Tech Soup

JULY 18, 2017

Orphans Getting an Elite Education in India. Ramakrishna Mission Students Home in India provides a home and education to orphaned boys from rural Tamil Nadu state in South India. In this project, the Candlelighters CyberKids program provides young cancer patients with a laptop with Microsoft Windows and Office.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 28, 2022

Research has shown that if 100% of students in developed countries received climate education, the emissions impact would be greater than that of wind and solar combined. Zahra Bahrololoumi co-hosted a roundtable lunch with Gail Gallie, CEO of Project Everyone , to discuss the role of CEOs in the wake of a crisis of trust.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 30, 2012

Orphans Getting an Elite Education in India. Ramakrishna Mission Students Home in India provides a home and education to orphaned boys from rural Tamil Nadu state in South India. In this project, the Candlelighters CyberKids program provides young cancer patients with a laptop with Microsoft Windows and Office.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 4, 2012

This charity also has offices in India , Nepal , and Tanzania operates its own projects and supports partners in Tanzania, India, and Nepal and works on behalf of children in places like the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Pakistan, Peru, Cambodia, China, and Bangladesh. Its unique way of working is project management heavy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2017

Beyond the First Click is a project of Capulet, Change.org and the Mobilisation Lab at Greenpeace. 7000 kilometres away in India, Haiyya is training the next generation of community organisers. Our Fellows should feel they’re working at a job, even if they already have a job or are a full-time student,” says Pandey.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

The Bookshare promise to American students with disabilities is that if they need a book for education, Bookshare will ensure that they have it. And we’re now making this happen in countries beyond the United States who, like India, have implemented Marrakesh without commercial limitation provisions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 19, 2015

While there are larger numbers of Gen Z in India, China, and Nigeria compared to UK or US, they are truly a global organization. And there is Jack Andraka , a high school student who got obsessed with finding a cure for cancer and created a test that can detect pancreatic cancer. They are not content to just sit and click.

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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. They gave the students tests based on content and scored them. Illustration by Beth Kanter.

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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. ” The Google.org sponsored project invited Bay Area nonprofits to share information about their great work to make a better world.

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OCTOBER 13, 2008

i impllemented in future means i will give name to this as SHOI abbrevated as student helping organization of india,which was run by the students,students are the main aspect for this.In will collet only from the 9th standard students to phd students.at help to these people my thought will deffinetly works.my

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Global Giving

MARCH 7, 2019

dollars and British pounds, and donors in India and East Africa can contribute in their local currencies via our partnerships with ImpactGuru and M-Changa. Featured Photo: Students Create Digital Tools to Solve Problems by CDI Apps for Good. The Big Question. GlobalGiving accepts donations in U.S. Want more tips like this?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 2, 2009

By chance this morning, I discovered the blog of my one twitter followers, Sumitroy001 who works with ngos and social media in India. The goal of this course is to expose students to visualization methods and techniques that increase the understanding of complex data.

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 16, 2015

While there are larger numbers of Gen Z in India, China and Nigeria compared to UK or US, they are truly a global organization. And there is Jack Andraka , a high school student who got obsessed with finding a cure for cancer and created a test that can detect pancreatic cancer. They are not content to just sit and click.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 19, 2011

For example: SAP continues to invest in their University Alliances program , which provides technology and expertise to educate students throughout the world and cultivate new IT leaders. This strategy has evolved over the past year and includes a range of projects and programs throughout the world.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 19, 2012

One of their most current philanthropic projects is Connect 2 Compete , which in a big new digital inclusion program that aims to provide a PC and broadband Internet in every U.S. Computers For Youth will supply educational resources for low-income students. Our RCI Refurbishment Partners: Redemtech and InterConnection.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 22, 2011

students with a global audience. Check out some of the recent entries: The American Indian Foundation takes you on a tour of India’s slums. The program empowers 12- to 18-year-olds to express their opinions and perspectives about issues important to them through photography, sound, video, and digital art.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2007

In a couple of days, video bloggers Jay Dedman and Ryanne Hodson will be in Cambodia doing some work with Project Hope International to help them document the work they're doing to rehabilitate people involved in human trafficking. The t-shirts were delivered to the students in May - here's a blog post about it. Click To Play.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

Over the last year, I have had to explain how social media works to diplomats, defense officials, and academics and students focused on fields as diverse as international affairs, management and sociology. Open group blogs, photo pools, video collages and similar projects are also good examples of co-creation. Do share your thoughts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 26, 2007

Michaela is now working as the Online Manager for a nonprofit focused on International Student programs , called World Learning and had attended SXSW where she felt that there needed to be more nonprofit panels.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

You also need to consider the learning environment, any constraints, the delivery options, and the timeline for the project. When I taught Networked Nonprofit workshops for NGOs from India and Pakistan , all the examples and even the icebreakers were relevant. The physical space you are working in will also help inform your design.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2007

My background is in campus organizing, and in helping college students connect with others working to create social change across perspective, issue, approach, and geography. It's a project of a nonprofit organization called mySociety , based in the UK. Heather Cronk 1. Tell me about you. What's your background? those might be.

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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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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 17, 2022

It also uses the NPSP as its CRM (constituent relationship management system) tracking interactions with donors, contractors, grantmakers, advisors, board members, volunteers, customers, and students. The Polaris Project works to disrupt human trafficking network.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

It was my birthday and the culmination of a campaign to raise money for Cambodian children that I used an action learning project for the students. We actually eat chocolate in class as part of the exercise! All of which deeply resonated with my own thinking, writing, and doing about small actions for social change.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 16, 2008

Christina Arnold: My name is Christina Arnold, and I'm the founder of Prevent Human Trafficking, formerly Project Hope International. Since this collaborative project has been in place, only one person has left the village. I was born in India, in Bombay, and I have four brothers and sisters. BB: What brought you to this work?

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 28, 2007

A high school English teacher in Zimbabwe, whose name is Betty Makoni , began hearing stories from her students after school, that they had been raped. Betty and six of her high school English students founded an organization called the Girl Child Network. PG: This has been so consuming, this project.

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