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Why Nonprofits Need a Values-Based Social Media Strategy

Non Profit Quarterly

Some users are migrating to new platforms, like Post, or to decentralized, open-source services, like Mastodon. Understand how bias and power dynamics operate in staffing technology and social media positions. Center language justice in your content strategies. Prioritize accessibility and disability justice.

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In Times of Crisis, You See Nonprofits Helping, Solving, Rebuilding

Saleforce Nonprofit

This annual event brings together representatives from nonprofits and technology companies around the world to address the biggest problems facing humanity and the planet. The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is the largest humanitarian organization in the world with a mission to end hunger.

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Announcing Our First Impact Labs Cohort on Zero Hunger: Addressing Food Insecurity in the U.S.

Saleforce Nonprofit

Impact Labs convenes community experts, or fellows, across sectors to co-create new technology solutions to support specific issue areas. For example, 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.

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Benetech: President's Update

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Our team has been thinking hard about scaling positive social impact of technology work. 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. This is a huge legal victory!

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Cambodia has faster growing number of open source software users?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

That estimate comes from Noy Shoung, deputy general of human capacity building at the government's National Information Communications Technology Development Authority ( NIDA ), the government agency that oversees the country's telecommunication policy. distribution that is currently being translated into Khmer language.

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Betsy Beaumon on Benetech's Literacy Program

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The Year That Was and the New Year Ahead Guest Beneblog by Betsy Beaumon, Benetech's VP and General Manager of the Literacy Program 2012 was a year of titanic shifts in the fields of consumer technology, education, and publishing, along with the requisite challenges brought about by such rapid change. Have an Android device?

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A New Marketing Paradigm: How Affordable, Active and Agile Technology Can Change Nonprofits

NTEN

But it's a "Catch 22" -- the proliferation of decentralized technology systems compromises the typical nonprofit's ability to deliver simply because its databases don't automatically integrate information about constituents for more effective marketing. The technology is available, affordable and effective.