fusionSpan

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Originally from Hyderabad, India, I am currently based in Dubai. What I enjoy most about my role is conversing with clients to comprehend their needs; it’s truly my favorite aspect of the job. I have a bachelor's degree in technology and am 9x Salesforce certified. How has your career grown since joining the team?

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Tech Soup

JUNE 19, 2015

India is home to 70 million people with different needs and abilities. WORTH, which stands for Workshop for Rehabilitation and Training of the Handicapped, aims to create opportunities for vocational training and avenues for employment for people with different needs in India. Technology Helps WORTH Increase Efficiency and Save Time.

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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

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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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 27, 2015

We’re doing a ton of work with partners in India , the first country to ratify it, to allow people in India to take full advantage of India’s now-favorable copyright environment. I was able to share some of our plans at Benetech around implementing the Treaty.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Elliot Harmon, regular TechSoup blogger and staff writer, was chosen to " Blog [His] Way to Hyderabad " for the Ashoka and Lemelson event, Tech4Society , taking place in Hyderabad, India this week. Thanks to a series of happy coincidences, I got to spend today at NASSCOM's India Leadership Forum (they're TechSoup Global's partner in India).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2010

The Nasscom Foundation in India is the epicenter of nonprofit technology and social innovation. NASSCOM Foundation was set up to support the Indian IT industry’s role in nation building and to promote the underprivileged to help them become self-reliant and productive participants in the country’s progress. Tags: india.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 28, 2022

With the advent of the stakeholder economy and its belief that the business of business is improving the state of the world, we have heard a lot about employee engagement, corporate philanthropy, and the role of business in supporting community action and change. Trust Roundtable.

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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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Saleforce Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

colleges said they are prioritising student outreach in India and China, the two primary markets for international students for Australian universities. However, this also means increased competition for students from new and existing types of competitors globally across a range of new business models. For example, more than half of U.S.

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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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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 8, 2008

Virginia and Kate, my wife and daughter, volunteered to come along with me on my one-week trip to South India. South India is famous for its temples. Elephants play a significant role in Hindu mythology and religion. So, I extended it to two weeks and added a trip to Madurai as part of that.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

DECEMBER 8, 2022

It’s not just useful for offline situations like interviewing people in rural India. I eventually volunteered as a project manager, which is one of the team roles that ensures trust and sustainability in what we’re building, and required to be a part of The Commons. CO: What makes Grassroots Mobile Survey so innovative?

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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 9, 2010

The NASSCOM India Leadership Forum has multiple tracks based on theme. In addition, during a roundtable on social media at the conference, I was fortunate to meet social media experts in India ( @ nirav @ amnigos @ pranavbhasin @ paritoshsharma and @ avinashraghava ) who shared some examples. Tags: india twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2017

It’s the most important volunteer role one can have at Greenpeace Germany,” says Dr. Kress. The role and ongoing coaching that accompanies it can lead to further opportunities like being hired in media relations, being accepted to a journalism program or working for a media company.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2014

The Oak Foundation just awarded us a grant to provide accessible content to people with qualifying learning differences (like dyslexia) in Brazil, India, and the United Kingdom. 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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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 14, 2013

campaigns in India to ease poverty, expand women''s rights, build. self-reliance, and achieve Swaraj—the independence of India from British domination. What role has perseverance played in their work? Mahatma Gandhi: Leader of the Indian National Congress, Gandhi led non-violent. Please share your thoughts.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

Of course, part of the role is the bread-and-butter work of a nonprofit GC: day-to-day transactions, reviewing our 990, providing counsel to our senior team and board. Right now, we have multiple law school clinics that would love to tackle new projects with us, projects we actually have but lack the bandwidth to pursue.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

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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Tech Soup

AUGUST 22, 2014

It is a moving one and a half minute video about the struggle of untouchable caste Dalit children in India to grow up and be as successful as more advantaged children. President and CEO, Rita Soronen describes the role of storytelling in their organization. Please visit the site to view this video).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 24, 2012

Through my work with Packard Foundation and with IIE and the State Department, I have have the opportunity to work with NGOs from places like Pakistan, Rwanda, India, and the Middle East. In her dual roles, Wanjiru divides her time between the U.S. What challenges do women who tech in Africa and Middle East face?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 27, 2010

Hilde Schwab, co-founder of the Schwab Foundation, welcomed us to the event, and highlighted the role of social entrepreneurs in the Global Redesign Initiative (GRI) that the WEF is pursuing. Harish Hande of Selco of India advocated passionately to involve the poor in the planning for ventures and initiatives designed to help them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2011

Clay advised that it is important to clarify board roles, be a good listener, and have diversity. A board of all babyboomers or Millennials isn’t good either. Several Millennials, including colleague, Clay Lord, agreed that serving on a board is a good way to engage them.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Met with the UN Foundation about a major grant they are giving us to bring Bookshare to India. Sulaiman Madada, Uganda's Minister of State for Gender, Labour and Social Development The conference was ably keynoted by Professor Ruth Okediji, who played a key role in negotiating the Marrakesh Treaty on behalf of the African delegations.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 7, 2013

The role of the Authorized Entity is critical in the Treaty, and it’s a straightforward definition. or similar laws in other countries like India and the EU. So, this means books, periodicals and other similar textual works, including audio versions of those titles. It doesn’t cover movies. Article 2(c). Defines Authorized Entity.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

Bookshare’s role was mixed: we didn’t end up attending many of these meetings and critiqued early efforts that were crippled by heavy-handed publisher influence, although we did propose at one point to supply technology to TIGAR based on Bookshare. The view of the World Blind Union was that the rightsholders (i.e.,

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Tech Soup

MAY 23, 2016

Prior to this role, she led customer experience at start-ups in the Boston-area and worked as a strategy execution consultant, implementing international projects and seminars for Fortune 100 clients. Devin studied entrepreneurship among textile artisans as a Fulbright Scholar in India.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 29, 2009

The distance between a social enterprise investor, a program officer, or a policy maker or citizen in the United States and a person in the slums of Kenya or India participating in an economic development or health social enterprise has never been smaller. We can now discuss, highlight and organize around the initiatives that work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2010

The Accelerator Summit included interactive sessions show casing their programs in these areas: workforce development , employee giving , environment , online safety , and the role of technology in the non-profit community. “ Unleashing Technology. View more presentations from Akhtarbad.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 13, 2010

"She stood up in our meeting and said that was exactly why women are afraid of taking loans in India, but with Nest, because it's interest-free and they can repay in their necklaces, they didn't have that kind of fear. Her name was Lolita, and her husband had committed suicide during the financial collapse that also hit India.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 26, 2006

Paolo Coelho (Brazilian author, The Alchemist ) talked about what we aren't willing to talk about: the role of love in what we do. Sheela Patel of SPARC in Mumbai, India, and I talked about IT needs for her communities: the poor. He pointed out three kinds of love: eros, agape and philos.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 4, 2012

billion), India ($12.0 Patricia Lewis' role as Sr. and international opinion leaders, as well as the general public, about the central role of the private sector, both for-profit and not-for-profit, in the creation of economic growth and prosperity in any country. aid, making up nearly 30% of total U.S. receiving $22.2

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

APRIL 26, 2007

Technology Review published a survey of the role of mobile technology in the developing economies this past January. Going beyond the merely anecdotal, the article tried to put some metric on the role mobile technology plays in growth in these countries. percent, or around US$12 billion for an economy the size of China.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2013

GuideStar India - Networked NGO Workshops - Packard Grantees. This is a role for hubs or perhaps “network weavers.” Here’s a collection of network maps from a couple of recent workshops – and you can see how they use color to show differences as well as different types of lines to show the relationships.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2010

Your website is becoming a channel and the web is already a hybrid mix of media where video plays a dominant role. The American Jewish World Service (AJWS) , for example, shot amazing video of their work in India, Uganda and El Salvador a few years ago. We also know that the distance separating the web and television is narrowing.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 19, 2006

THE SHAPE OF WATER (1:10) Dir - Kum-Kum Bhavnani The Shape of Water, narrated by Susan Sarandon, interweaves the contradictions and joys of everyday life for Khady, Bilkusben, Oraiza, Dona Antonia, and Gila in Brazil, India, Jerusalem, and Senegal. Send me a review if you go! Hat tip to Elisa Camahort of Hip and Zen Pen for the story.

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