Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 16, 2014

Then I’ll share the latest stories on the impact of our tech volunteerism and human rights tech efforts as well our new tech leadership. Consider third grade student Brennan Draves. In fact, his reading skills are above average and he is on track to be an honor roll student. To do so, we definitely need your help.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 12, 2021

As our understanding of the problem has evolved, the language we use has evolved too. We once thought the problem was simply about a lack of calories, but now we know it’s more about not having enough nutritious food to support body and brain development. OUSD is Focused on Holistic Student Support. Nutrition insecurity.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 2, 2015

" In 2014, GigaOm found some interesting statistics on diversity in tech from company-provided data and survey results from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission : 80 percent of employees were Caucasian at the tech companies it examined. Artis explained that unfilled jobs are an ongoing issue for many corporations.

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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. Bookshare is our large digital library for students with disabilities such as blindness or dyslexia. Daproim has more than 7600 applications from Kenyan students who want to work there.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 8, 2015

Technology is playing an ever larger role in increasing respect for human rights and delivering better services, and we have two rare opportunities to lead world-class tech-for-good programs. Our Benetech Labs is busy looking for the next tech social enterprises that could make similar global impact.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 8, 2011

The world’s problems are many, and we keep seeing opportunities for technologists to address those problems effectively. Led by Benetech’s VP of Engineering Gerardo Capiel, we will create an online space, SocialCoding4Good, where people in the tech community interested in social causes can volunteer ideas, connections, time and skills.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

Chuck had been suggesting for quite a while that I come to Boulder both to speak to Naropa students and connect with the vibrant local tech scene. The majority of Naropa students in the class were working on their own social enterprise concepts. Laura DeLuca’s class on Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 26, 2011

The universities I visit tend to be full of students and faculty committed to doing important and innovative work. But, Caltech taught me how to size up a problem and model how a system works: skills that have been indispensable in both my entrepreneurial and social entrepreneurial pursuits! My recent visit to Caltech was no exception.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 22, 2013

Caltech’s small size makes its faculty and students incredibly agile when it comes to understanding a broad array of fields: there is a need here to be able to explain your work, and to understand the work of others. Caltech feeds an intense curiosity, a burning desire to understand, to grapple with hard problems and to own them!

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Tech Soup

JUNE 17, 2013

And updates to software and hardware continuously improve the tech. Another problem that nonprofits often have is what we call "technology by accident." For example: "Increase student academic performance by 10 percent by integrating. You should include not only people who are tech-savvy, but. experience.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 30, 2012

CASE offers a tremendous program for MBA students and alumni interested in applying their business skills for social purposes. I hope that in my lecture, I convince my listeners, especially students, that they don’t need technology degrees to succeed in high tech.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 27, 2014

Zach has Cerebral Palsy , which causes movement and coordination problems, and which keeps him from speaking and walking. When our team last caught up with him, he was a busy student at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio, rejoicing in his ability to read independently and reach his full potential.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

I was an electrical engineering student (1% women), then worked at NASA (10% women), and then slowly slid from science museums (about 50% women) to history and art museums (60-80%, depending on who you ask). This is a problem. how BIG a problem is this gender imbalance? At TEDx, the mix was 50/50. this post ).

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 17, 2019

In this decade museums worst trends were in labor and tech: 1. Funder-driven tech initiatives. Now, many see the downsides, including crushing student debt along large numbers of credentialed people with few open jobs. Apps, QR Codes, AR/ VR, Interactives, all our most lauded tech, got mentioned.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 13, 2010

I was impressed when I heard Tim O'Reilly recommending to all tech folks last year that they Work on Stuff that Matters. Tim's point wasn't that all tech developers should go to work for nonprofits, it was that people should step back and think about what matters to them.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 14, 2013

This week we learn about the Resilient Africa Network (RAN), which is helping African students use open data for disaster relief. Data Digest is a weekly round-up of the latest news on data-related projects in the nonprofit sector, compiled and authored by Keisha Taylor of GuideStar International and TechSoup Global.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 10, 2013

That’s what inspired me to start Benetech , a nonprofit tech company, over 20 years ago. We don’t know if the student ever gets past Chapter 1. Last month we launched a new feature for Bookshare that allows students to read books within a web browser, instead of needing additional software or tools.

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Volunteer Hub

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Many nonprofit tech solutions often provide only generic asynchronous or self-guided onboarding experiences, leaving organizations struggling to adapt.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 19, 2013

For example, a recent project of hers is Startup Box: South Bronx, or [SB] 2 —a nonprofit startup incubator and tech education center that aims to connect the creativity of the South Bronx with the power of the tech industry by bringing together students, startups and community members. [SB]

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 25, 2022

Tech nonprofit” is an emerging term that refers to a tech startup that is building software or web applications using a nonprofit model for social impact. Fast Forward, a tech nonprofit accelerator, highlighted a few such organizations during their Demo Day 2022 event. Using Tech to Reduce Barriers to Education.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 16, 2013

PC Rebuilders and Recyclers (PCRR) is our newest RCI refurbishment partner and is now providing enhanced tech support to our program. PCRR is now providing enhanced tech support to our program. On serious problems PCRR technicians will be able to remotely access your PCs to diagnose and hopefully fix the problem.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 3, 2009

Every student so far that has posted a loan need has had willing lenders snap up the offering quickly (in under 30 hours over the weekend). Kushal's challenge is actually finding more microcredit institutions in the developing world with qualified students who need loans. It makes a lot of sense to me. I'm not alone.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 17, 2008

My first day was hanging out at the Young Researchers seminar, which was organized by Professors Paul Blenkhorn (the UK's first professor of access tech) and the ICCHP host Klaus Miesenberger. It was fun to hear students and fresh Ph.Ds talking about their research. I gave the opening keynote, on my main new theme, Raising the Floor.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

One of the most insightful points made by the CEO, was that developing an effective bot is not about tech skills, your nonprofit has to be a good communicator and listener and be empathetic. Also, the chat bot has to be the response to a real problem. Thinking it through requires developing user personas and paths.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 5, 2010

For each American who has a disability that affects access to information and communication capabilities, there are tech solutions that could be delivered through broadband to make that resource accessible. Are they intended to inspire students? Change the behaviors of mainstream tech companies? Recognize past accomplishments?

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Tech Soup

JULY 16, 2013

But what if kids learned basic tech skills along with reading storybooks and taking spelling tests? Young people are not gaining the 21 st century skills and experience required for today's tech-centric workforce—and that's a huge problem. Additionally, some students don't have digital access at home.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Our second Impact Lab recently announced the Financial Aid Chatbot to support students as they navigate the FAFSA application. Currently she manages corporate venture capital partnerships at Elemental Excelerator, a climate tech growth accelerator based in the Pacific. Climate justice is an overlooked problem within the climate sector.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 7, 2017

women became the majority of law students. The UN finds that 119 countries have now passed domestic violence laws, though enforcement remains a problem. It is one of the very few tech conferences where that is the case. Religion Tech. Last year, U.S. Shortfalls. Philanthropy. TechSoup Leadership.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 21, 2016

All day, almost every day, nonprofit new media managers are immersed in breaking news and thus the world’s problems. Many of the social problems we see daily have always existed, but it wasn’t until the rise of mobile and social media that we were given constant access to the stories, images, and videos that document humankind’s dark side.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

When I first started pursuing the idea of using technology to solve challenging social problems, it was a pretty radical idea. During that time, we’ve grown from offering one product to offering many products and services, in four program areas: education, human rights, the environment, and, now, tech volunteerism.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 17, 2014

As a different kind of Silicon Valley tech company—a nonprofit with a pure focus on social good—our goal is to see that the best of technology gets applied to social needs left unaddressed by for-profit businesses. students) with a collection of 220,000+ (and counting) accessible books—the world’s largest library of its kind.

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Tech Soup

JULY 18, 2017

I have a soft spot for nonprofits that tackle really hard problems, and autism is certainly one of those. Ramakrishna Mission Students Home in India provides a home and education to orphaned boys from rural Tamil Nadu state in South India. Photo: Ramakrishna Mission Students Home. Orphans Getting an Elite Education in India.

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NonProfit Hub

AUGUST 11, 2014

I have (tried to) run a nonprofit at my college, a campus magazine set up with attached 501(c)3 entity so as to give us financial flexibility and maintain independence from our student senate and Board of Publications. This biggest problem: no one held an official social media position. 1) Embrace Technology.

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Tech Soup

JULY 16, 2013

Through technology, data, and resource-sharing, Community Boost_r seeks to empower Balkan citizens to voice their opinions, demand solutions to everyday problems, and stay informed on accountability and transparency issues. EkoVizija is a mobile app that enables users to take pictures and report environmental problems in their community.

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Tech Soup

MAY 30, 2014

Nonprofit Tech Essentials. Fundraising: The Tech Tools You Need , kicking off a mobile fundraising campaign , and 19 Effective Fundraising Ideas from Nonprofit Pros. You face many critical decisions when you look at your tech infrastructure. Our partner Tech Impact can help.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 19, 2008

From their website: Some of the features that distinguish Hampshire from more traditional liberal arts colleges include student-designed academic concentrations; an active, collaborative, inquiry-based pedagogy; an interdisciplinary curriculum; and a narrative evaluation system. Sounds a lot like Edupunk, doesn’t it?

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Tech Soup

APRIL 30, 2012

I have a soft spot for nonprofits that tackle really hard problems, and autism is certainly one of those. Ramakrishna Mission Students Home in India provides a home and education to orphaned boys from rural Tamil Nadu state in South India. Photo: Ramakrishna Mission Students Home. in Staatsburg, New York is doing.

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