Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 27, 2010

The benefits of collocating the social entrepreneurs in one place has been proven in past years: a large amount of the value of attending the WEF is meeting with global social entrepreneur colleagues, and trading notes about the best ways to change the world for the better.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

4 Think global, write local Don’t forget op-eds and letters to the editor! While topics might be global, news is local,” explained Chan. 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.

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Tech Soup

MAY 12, 2014

TechSoup Global’s Dara Westling attended the recent Global Donors Forum in Washington, D.C. She is our vice president of development alliances and global media for TechSoup Global’s domestic and international programs. We connect the local with global resources.” Dara Westling.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 4, 2012

I did a post a few weeks ago on youth programs in TechSoup Global's new Local Impact Map and decided I hadn’t covered this resource nearly enough. demonstrates what nonprofits, NGOs, and libraries around the world are doing with their TechSoup Global software donations to further their missions. Our Local Impact Map.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2014

Here’s what I learned: Global Social Media and Mobile Usage Studies and Internet Penetration. I’ve been curating infographics summarizing social media and social network studie s of American and global audiences, but one of the best resources global social media and mobile data is We Are Social.

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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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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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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

as well as the national governments of much of the developed world, robustly practices variants of high-capacity governmental social innovation today, such as the myriad programs countering the global Great Recession. There is also a distinguished history of social innovation in the U.S. The Early Bird deadline ends tonight!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 15, 2008

Global issues like poverty are extremely complex and seem huge. m just a guy who - like a lot of people - was always concerned about important issues like global poverty but wasn???t Simple and small changes in our global, political, and personal priorities can make a huge difference. ???We There is no simple, clear answers. 

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 23, 2016

But while global experts search for solutions to bridge the worsening digital divide for women, it turns out the answers are at our fingertips. We launched a global crowdsourcing campaign to collect homegrown solutions and ideas to spread digital empowerment. We know there is enormous potential in bringing more women online.

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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. Bookshare.org Goes International This year marked my first attendance at the Clinton Global Initiative. CGI puts great emphasis on getting each attendee to make a new commitment to global society.

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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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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 22, 2018

We are grateful to the 3,573 people who have taken the 2018 Global Trends In Giving Survey thus far. This year we are getting more participants from outside of the United States, but we definitely need more diversity in our survey respondents for the data to truly reflect the global donor community. Bangladesh 2.1%. are female.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 8, 2006

And so it became really important in my mind for me to think about another project that would actually get me looking at and get me talking about what's happening in this country, with the awareness that what we do here as individuals, as consumers, as citizens, has this global effect. So just trying to get us to really see that.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 28, 2007

She is donating 100 percent of the royalties from the book to the Global Fund for Women. BB: Can you talk a little bit about the relationship between the Global Fund for Women and this book? By 2005, I had my eye on a little handful of organizations that I knew were grantees of the Global Fund for Women.

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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. Participants at the 2012 global Martus Users Group Meeting Benetech is committed to doing this kind of ongoing development to help advance the broader human rights movement. Thank you in advance!

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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. A global ‘servant economy’ beckons, writes Jason E. Srnicek, Platform Capitalism , p.

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