Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

” He started off with a great story about what a tribe in South Africa does when someone in their community does something bad. He also talked about how self-organizing networks (think Occupy) form as a sort of immune system response because there is something missing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 12, 2019

I was there for seven and a half years, and I had a fascinating time applying what had worked for me in the for-profit sector, including scaling up various systems and processes, to the non-profit space. We want to have the entire population of non-profit organizations on an online system. It won’t happen overnight.

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sgEngage

MAY 6, 2021

1980s – The concept of ESG continues to accelerate, especially around actions taken by the United States Government in the “Comprehensive Anti-Apartheid Act”, which outlawed any additional investment in South Africa. . Read more about the history of Earth Day here. . .

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 27, 2007

Moving on to dinner, I sat next to Garth Japhet of Soul City in South Africa, a doctor/social entrepreneur who leads an organization that uses media to influence behavior that affects HIV/AIDS. He gave me the direct advice of a social entrepreneur in the middle of marketing his first book: immensely useful.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

He plans to start a search fund (a vehicle for entrepreneurs to raise funds from investors) to find businesses – and intellectual property – that have a social focus to help out developing countries, particularly South Africa. His specialty: user testing. A move to Benetech’s quality assurance team was a great fit.

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EveryAction

MARCH 16, 2017

Before her historic flight, Jemison served as a Peace Corps Medical Officer in Sierra Leone and Liberia, where she oversaw the medical system that serviced Peace Corps and U.S. She hails from Johannesburg, South Africa and at just 16 years old, presented her project aimed at allieviating the drought crisis in her home country.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 24, 2007

The folks in South Africa, where we get our Rooibos and Honeybush, actually have sort of earning rights. Because we were organized from Day One, and you are just building on that system, so you are taking an organizational system and then you are making it more and more complex as you go, just the way organisms work anyway.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 5, 2013

Switzerland was the first country in the world to adopt an electronics recycling system is 1991.Things South Korea also has a developed electronics recycling system that now recovers and properly processes over 75 percent of discarded electronics. Their system recovers around 75 percent of e-waste. North America.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 30, 2007

So I started to understand that there was a system at play that needs to change. And there are women who choose to get ahead by emulating the systems that we have. We introduced rooibos and honeybush from South Africa, which was never heard of in America. More women voices are needed everywhere we go. anything.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Kipp’s idea was that we could take this paper-based rape reporting system and build it on top of our Martus secure human rights software platform. The Africa Forum is the premier meeting of blindness groups across sub-Saharan Africa, and it’s held roughly every three years. This time, I had the benefit of help.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 25, 2007

So, we want for Laney College and the Peralta Community College system to be aligned with the job opportunities of the future, so the Green Jobs Corps represents that commitment on the part of the local community colleges. You've got to be almost an electrical engineer to do that the right way. That's a green pathway out of poverty.

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