Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 5, 2009

Microsoft Press is a great example of this. Through the intervention of a senior Microsoft executive, I got to meet with the MS Press publisher to ask for direct access to their content with rights to serve people with disabilities globally through our Bookshare service. The good news is that for any Microsoft Press book that a U.S.

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NetWits

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Maybe you just won a prestigious award and issued a press release. — Maybe you’re satisfied with your communications strategy.Perhaps your nonprofit was recently featured on TV or saluted in the local newspaper. You might be proud of your custom Facebook page and how many people follow you on Twitter.

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VisionLink

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

Aaron Titus’ work has been covered in countless newspapers and news media outlets, including the Washington Post, New York Times, Forbes, the Wall Street Journal, The Associated Press, ABC, MSNBC, and NPR. Aaron''s addition to VisionLink underscores our philosophy in hiring only the best minds to complement our award winning software.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 15, 2010

More information is in the press release below – you can contact Marie with additional questions. It began operating in 1982 and anticipated awarding $5-$6 million a year. The forum asks visitors to identify what they think is the most pressing issue facing Oregon and to share their best ideas to address it.

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Qgiv

APRIL 19, 2022

Qgiv has received multiple awards based on ratings submitted by Qgiv users to software review sites G2 , Capterra , and Software Advice. These awards cover a range of topics, including top fundraising software, quality of customer support, ease of implementation, and ease of use. Read the Press Release. Request a Demo.

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Care2

OCTOBER 29, 2012

The recent award winners of the 2012 Grinnell Prize are a great example. Cristi Hegranes, Global Press Institute – Global Press Institute (GPI) advances both responsible global journalism and community empowerment by offering journalism training to women around the world.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 14, 2006

And, I'll be going to Oxford at the end of this month to the Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship to accept the award on behalf of the Benetech team.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 20, 2007

students with print disabilities, I told my team that if we won an award, I'd cook smoked lobster for the whole company. We issued our first official press release about the award and immediately had a great article in the San Jose Mercury News. Today's that day! We're just three weeks into this new world for Benetech.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 6, 2022

Click the link below to read our full year in review press release. 2021 Year in Review Press Release. Auction guests using Qgiv can now participate according to their technology preferences: via browser or app. We’re looking forward to another year of helping nonprofits fulfill their passion to make a difference in the world!

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Cloud 4 Good

JUNE 9, 2022

Representatives from Cloud for Good received the award in person at the Salesforce.org Unite Partners Summit 2022 in Puerto Rico. . Cloud for Good remains the only Salesforce.org partner in the ecosystem to receive the Nonprofit Consulting Partner award since the category’s inception in 2019. . www.cloud4good.com . Jenn Grandt.

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Qgiv

APRIL 15, 2021

Thanks to our clients, we received multiple awards in G2’s fundraising software category. Awards include Best Results overall award for the third consecutive year, Small Business Leader, Overall Leader, Momentum Leader, High Performer Mid-Market, and Best Support Mid-Market. Read the Press Release.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 21, 2011

Now, more than twenty years later, what has become known as social entrepreneurship is a hot global movement that is transforming the ways in which we approach the world’s most pressing problems and in which society organizes itself to solve them. Social entrepreneurship has its own conferences, publications, academic programs and awards.

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Candid

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Both individual and institutional giving increased between 2015 and 2022, not only in terms of total dollars awarded but also in terms of average donation or grant size. This shift may reflect changing priorities or an increased focus on other pressing issues like public health and social services. Who gives to what causes?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

At CGI Annual Meetings, leaders from across sectors do more than just developing new ideas or getting inspired: they come together to take real action to address pressing global challenges. I had the honor of attending CGI 2013 where I announced Benetech’s latest Commitment to Action.

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Qgiv

APRIL 20, 2021

We’re incredibly excited to announce that Qgiv’s Customer Experience (CX) team has won a 2021 Excellence in Customer Service Award presented by Business Intelligence Group (BIG)! Organizations from across the globe submitted their customer service teams and leaders for consideration in the BIG Excellence in Customer Service Awards.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 29, 2004

Last week I was reading the Sunday paper (the San Jose Mercury News) and I saw a speech that Jeff Skoll gave upon receiving a major philanthropy award. This event has gotten some great press and news around the field, and I will presenting there on Wednesday and participating on the business plan review panel on Friday.

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Cloud 4 Good

JUNE 3, 2021

Both awards were presented during Unite, the Salesforce.org virtual Partner Summit on May 27, 2021. In receiving the Nonprofit Premium Partner award for a third-straight year, Cloud for Good remains the only Salesforce.org partner to be recognized in the category since its inception in 2019. Media Contact: Cloud for Good. 855-536-1251.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2006

In addition, this year there is a new award for innovation nonprofit organizations called The MetLife Foundation/Civic Ventures BreakThrough Award. The award will be given to an organization that taps the passion and experience of people over 50 to improve society. Awards will be announced in the spring of 2007.

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Cloud 4 Good

AUGUST 12, 2021

The Best Small & Medium Workplaces award is based on an analysis of survey responses from more than 280,000 current employees. This award brings me great joy, as it is a testament to our company’s commitment to ensuring our staff and our culture are second to none, even as we continue to grow year over year.

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Candid

APRIL 30, 2021

Awarded through the Mastercard Impact Fund, the commitment will help fund access to hospital resources, the purchase of oxygen, and support for the company's employees in India.

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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

G2’s Winter 2022 Report has been released and Qgiv has received 18 different awards badges, including fundraising software with the best overall results! Easiest To Use: Overall – The Easiest to Use index is awarded to the highest Ease of Use-rated product within the fundraising technology category. Read the Press Release.

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

G2 ‘s Fall 2021 Report has been released and Qgiv has once again received numerous awards based on verified client reviews and feedback! This fall Qgiv has received the following awards from G2: Best Results (overall award for the third consecutive year). Read Press Release. Fastest Implementation. Momentum Leader.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

If you know someone who deserves that break, there's a great competition going on to select Tech Awards Laureates, presented by The Tech Museum of Innovation. You can nominate someone at the Tech Awards website. The Tech is looking for people who respond to humanity's most pressing problems by applying a technological solution.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Nonprofits focused on the preservation of local journalism are being called to step up, and many of the country’s largest private foundations have announced $500 million in funding over five years to support them, an extraordinary initiative called Press Forward. Press Forward seeks to stop and reverse that trend. What’s the problem?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 2, 2007

I was awarded one of the 2006 MacArthur Fellowships. These awards are based not so much on past achievements, as an expectation that you will do something exciting in the future. By announcing this in many press interviews, I've managed to create lots of external pressure on myself to get this done!

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VisionLink

JULY 20, 2011

This town is always obnoxiously flaunting its "fittest-place-in-the-country" awards, and you will be hard-pressed to find one person here, including your 85-year-old grandmother, without a six-pack. Yet of Boulder''s 100,000 people, about 30,000 are students, some 99.9% are blonde, and all of them in better shape than you.

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Candid

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

We began tracking grants and pledges based on press releases and public announcements to tell a real-time story. . Under PRE’s recommendation, we now define funding for racial equity as grantmaking explicitly awarded to benefit people of color broadly or explicitly awarded to organizations that serve these populations.

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

Two years ago, Bev Clark, the co-founder of Kubatana.net , was awarded a large grant in the Knight News Challenge for Freedom Fone, an open-source software platform for distributing news and information through interactive voice response (IVR) technology. . Melissa Ulbricht, MobileActive.org.

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The MatrixFiles

DECEMBER 15, 2022

This could be a template for your: newsletter, PowerPoint presentations, meeting pages, PDFs, press releases, or social media posts. For example, if someone types the word “awards” into your site search, they might get a jillion results, but what they probably want is your awards landing page, so set up a best bet for the awards landing page.

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EveryAction

MAY 11, 2023

The Campaign Workshop is an award-winning political consulting firm that specializes in targeted communications, digital, mail, and video for advocacy and political campaigns. She has spent the last seven years focused on fundraising for pressing health and advocacy issues on the state and national level. Connect with her on LinkedIn

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 3, 2009

org will be awarded 20 votes to place on their favorite plans. The program helps accelerate the impact of visionary change agents who are incubating transformative solutions to the world’s most pressing challenges. The recession is focusing minds. What change do you want to create? We're excited about what we can do!

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Bloomerang

MARCH 15, 2024

Press releases Press releases are the perfect way for a nonprofit organization to gain backlinks. For more information about press releases for nonprofits, read our guide, 5 Ways to Get Your Nonprofit Press Release to Stand Out. What is nonprofit SEO? Guest posts Another way to gain backlinks is through guest posts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

Zoe Amar and Matt Collins of Platypus Digital created the #SocialCEO Awards in 2013 with the goal to celebrate charity leaders who are using social media in support of their organization’s missions. The only rule you need to apply here is instinct – if something in you is stopping you pressing ‘tweet’ on an update, don’t do it.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 2, 2012

A little over 4 years ago, we won a competitive contract award from the US Department of Education which took a bold risk on Bookshare. As a result, we quickly became the largest online library for people with print disabilities. Bookshare has grown tremendously from the 3,000 students that we were serving in 2007. and that risk paid off.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 15, 2012

The nonprofits I spoke to are all nominees for awards at the upcoming Games for Change Festival, which I’m planning on attending. ( [link] )The festival brings together thought leaders, designers, and government and nonprofit professionals in a crosspollination of ideas from the game design and social good sectors.

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Cloud 4 Good

JULY 12, 2021

This award recognized the 100 top organizations that challenge their IT staff while providing great benefits and compensation. For me, this award is a positive affirmation that the diversity, growth, and trust we’ve instilled at the core of our team culture brings forth positive change for our team and the industry at large.” .

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Cloud 4 Good

APRIL 5, 2022

Grab your coffee or tea, and settle in for two days packed with 6,000 of your peers, 40+ sessions, and 7 Summit Award winners. The Summit Awards. Tune in to the keynote presentation as seven institutions across seven categories are identified as the coveted Sumit Award winners. Education Summit. April 20: 7:30 am – 2:00 pm PT.

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