Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 15, 2006

My primary destination in Bangladesh was to meet with BRAC , which is the world's largest NGO (nonprofit organization) with nearly 100,000 employees. Abed has accomplished an incredible amount since founding BRAC more than 30 years ago, but he is charging forward with expansion both inside and outside of Bangladesh.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 29, 2010

Conversation Three When I got back late to the hotel and stopped by the bar, I found the founders of Waste Concern of Dhaka, Bangladesh, Maqsood Sinha and Iftekhar Enayetullah getting a late dinner of sandwiches. They have expanded from Dhaka to at least ten cities, and are now wrestling with the right way to expand outside of Bangladesh.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Mikey has published two books, including the Bradt Travel Guide to Bangladesh. He also founded the Positive Light project, a crowdsourced and crowdfunded photography project and coffee table photo book that is changing the way the world sees Bangladesh. Mikey had the opportunity to speak at TEDxDhaka on Positive Light. Bailey Rosser.

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Whole Whale

MAY 10, 2024

BRAC Based in Bangladesh, BRAC is one of the largest international development organizations in the world, and their 2018 Annual Report uses innovative design elements to present their numerous programs and initiatives in an accessible way. Full disclosure: Fight CRC is a Whole Whale client, but we really do love their annual report!)

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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. Vinod Sena in memoriam I had a very unfortunate reminder of the fragile state of each human being this week. Professor Vinod Sena was a retired professor of English literature at the University of Delhi.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

Shawn Ahmed sent us a video from Bangladesh with his reflections on how nonprofits can work with Free Agents. For example, in Bangladesh, people mistrust nonprofits, but they are more open to individuals. Please take five minutes to watch the video – it’s excellent.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

He has been on field missions to co-create solutions with governments and implementing partners in Zambia, Mozambique, Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, Nigeria, and Bangladesh. He started his career at a digital solutions start-up in South Africa, and for the past 4 years, he’s been part of the WFP technology team. Dun-Ying Vicki Yu.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 19, 2006

Plus, they are expanding into other areas of sustainability work, such as solar powered water pumps in rural Bangladesh. The topic of hybrid for-profit/nonprofit enterprises is a big one for me, and these guys are busy setting one up to greatly expand their operations. In a great way!

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Whole Whale

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Based in Bangladesh, BRAC is one of the largest international development organizations in the world, and their 2018 Annual Report uses innovative design elements to present their numerous programs and initiatives in an accessible way. Full disclosure: Fight CRC is a Whole Whale client, but we really do love their annual report!).

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Tech Soup

JUNE 4, 2012

This charity also has offices in India , Nepal , and Tanzania operates its own projects and supports partners in Tanzania, India, and Nepal and works on behalf of children in places like the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Pakistan, Peru, Cambodia, China, and Bangladesh. It has just 20 UK-based staff. software.

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Global Giving

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

And the government of Bangladesh announced plans for a nationwide mobile payments system by early 2018.This Just last month, Google launched Tez , an “audio QR” payment solution for mobile phone users in India.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 30, 2010

Next, I went to the Social Entrepreneurs Corner (a space set aside for the SEs) and ended up talking in detail with Iftekhar of Waste Concern from Bangladesh about the idea they floated in the bar a couple days ago for software to help cities reduce their carbon footprint.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 27, 2010

There are roughly thirty social entrepreneurs here at the Forum, headlined by such famous leading SEs as Muhammad Yunus and Fazle Abed of Bangladesh. We then joined the social entrepreneurship dinner.

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Global Giving

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

This is particularly critical when these services are developed and tested on people who are already facing major risks, like Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh. Like any new technology, it’s important to consider the social implications of blockchain before rushing to build new social services around it.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

For example, during the one-year anniversary of the Rana Plaza building collapse in Bangladesh, an example of a good op-ed could discuss this issue from a local''s point of view. “While topics might be global, news is local,” explained Chan. Write an op-ed that talks about the issue from the local context.”

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 24, 2007

Almost everyone here does something interesting, and you are more likely than not find a common interest with someone you would never would have a priori guessed would be passionate about human rights, or technology, or the political situation in Bangladesh, or environmental change, or.

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

Across the globe there are many recent and well-known cases of social entrepreneurship that follow this pattern of independent sector or civil society working with government, such as Muhammad Yunus’ Grameen family of ventures and Fazle Abed’s BRAC in Bangladesh. The Early Bird deadline ends tonight! Click here to register to attend!

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 13, 2006

According to the organization's web site: The Grameen Bank provides credit to the poorest of the poor in rural Bangladesh, without any collateral. With 2,226 branches, GB provides services in 71,371 villages, covering more than 100 percent of the total villages in Bangladesh. As of May 2006, it has 6.61

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Tech Soup

MAY 12, 2014

The most populous Muslim country is Indonesia , followed by India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nigeria, and Egypt. The Muslim world has a population of one and half billion people or just under a quarter of the world’s population. Another interesting fact is that most Muslims don’t live in the Middle East.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 22, 2007

The victims of Cyclone Sidr in the southwestern region of Bangladesh have immediate needs for relief items, including food and non-food items, emergency shelter, basic health care, clean water and more. I thought I'd highlight a few charitable organizations that are working to end hunger and some opportunities for donations.

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NTEN

JULY 18, 2013

When you have a volunteer experience that makes you question your life or see that someone in Bangladesh is the same as you, it makes you more passionate to give back for the rest of your life. We want to drive the talent to nonprofits. 2) The volunteer experience has the power to transform a person to give for the rest of their lives.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 2, 2007

For example, I'm planning on going to India and Bangladesh next month for the first time, and to Uganda and Sudan next year. However, the fellowship does give me much more flexibility: I don't have to justify spending Benetech's funds for something that isn't directly connected to our current projects.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 15, 2008

He chronicled his story and work in Bangladesh using social media tools and engaging story telling techniques. t have a set plan or any previous experience doing something like this. s why this project is called ???uncultured??? uncultured??? Shawn's goal was to change the conversation about ending poverty.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 23, 2016

There are digital literacy trainings for women springing up in Bangladesh, Internet cafés for women opening doors in Argentina, and women leaders in Kenya prototyping mobile apps that send out alerts if a woman’s safety is threatened.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 4, 2006

On October 13th Muhammad Yunus won the Nobel Peace Prize for his work with the Grameen Bank, which provides credit to the rural poor of Bangladesh. Microfinance and microcredit are all the rage among do-gooders right now.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2013

charity: water even has an entire section of their site dedicated to stories from the field, where people who work for or collaborate with the nonprofit tell stories about the experiences they’ve had bringing clean water to people in Rwanda, Uganda, Bangladesh and more.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 20, 2005

Each attending cooperative might represent, for example, 600 artists back home in Bangladesh. As this article from The New Mexican reported: The market's original planners envisioned not just a commercial venture to benefit the folk-art museum, but a platform with socially redeeming, trickle-down qualities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2014

WHO And here’s a picture of a very happy lad, Mithu, in Bangladesh, proud of his improved pit latrine. The engagement got a lot of responses and WHO retweeted many of the pictures with the intent to fostered an understanding of what not having a toilet means. Citizen Digital Engagement in Policy Discussions and Action.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 22, 2018

Bangladesh 2.1%. White/Caucasian 83.3%. Top 10 Countries. United States 24.5%. Singapore 14%. Israel 13.3%. Argentina 5.1%. United Kingdom 4.9%. Spain 3.7%. South Africa 3%. Australia 2.9%. 2018 Global NGO Technology Report. Published in ????????????,

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 8, 2006

And in that book we were really interested in hearing the voices, the stories of people around the world that were addressing the root causes of hunger and poverty.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 5, 2016

Breaking: PETA Exposes Hell for Animals and Children in Bangladesh. Give Now to See Your Name on KDKA-TV! Help Stop Offshore Drilling in SC. You Can Spark a Vital Movement. GivingTuesday is changing the world – and so are you. Happy Human Rights Day. December E-news: Happy Holidays. Your gift will be TRIPLED!

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 7, 2013

ND-Burma member groups regularly send observers, at great personal risk, across Burma’s borders with India, Bangladesh, Thailand and China. We have extended Martus capacity building and technical support to ND-Burma since its inception in 2004.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 28, 2007

I heard a wonderful story about a woman from Bangladesh who just scrimped to save a dollar to contribute to them. A one page letter in a woman's handwriting in her own language is all you need to apply to the Global Fund. The other thing is that they genuinely treat people as equals.

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 3, 2022

Myopia undoubtedly affects those at the furthest reaches of other supply chains too – someone stitching garments in Bangladesh for Primark may not know, ultimately, which company their labour serves. For algorithmic sorcery to remain the rarified precinct of data mystics and arbitrageurs, new kinds of economic blindness must be conjured.

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