Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 26, 2011

The 8th Annual Games for Change Festival takes place on June 20 – 22 in New York City. As the leading global advocate for making and supporting games created for social impact, we want to share some of the exciting events at this year’s Festival that we feel will resonate with nonprofits.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2021

Evolution Equity Partners led the round with participation from new investors Tiger Global Management, Ridgeline Partners and Downing Lane. Cape Privacy launches data science collaboration platform with $5.06M seed investment.

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NTEN

AUGUST 30, 2011

The New York City Mayor's office ran an official stream of information on their Twitter account and linked to other useful local information. One of those was the MTA Twitter stream , offering updates and pictures – storytelling to keep New Yorkers updated and in the loop on public transportation.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 21, 2023

Before founding dipp , Jennifer Chen and Mikhail Abramov spent 15 years working as art directors in New York City. During that time, Chen says they realized that the marketing, sales and design process have stayed the same, despite new technology and tools being introduced to the market, and is often riddled with bottlenecks.

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Media Cause

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Every nonprofit, big or small, stands to gain from working towards a common global goal. From a place of political neutrality, Sweden found that environmental pollution could be an issue of potential cooperation between members of the UN, and hosting a conference on that topic would help boost the UN’s global perception.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 12, 2024

In fact, a recent Global Trends in Giving report reveals that 33% of donors in the U.S. New supporter welcome email example: Four Freedoms Park Conservancy The Four Freedoms Park Conservancy is a nonprofit that maintains the Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms State Park memorial in New York City.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 18, 2012

The Foundation Center and TechSoup Global have announced a new strategic alliance ! As our newest collaboration takes shape, we’re exploring new opportunities to co-host events and share our content with the aim of expanding knowledge and insights with wider audiences in the social-benefit sector.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2022

WizeHire , a hiring service for small- and medium-sized (SMB) businesses, has raised $30 million in a Series B funding round led by Tiger Global with participation from Amplo and Mercury. Upadhyay previously cofounded Hoot.me, an app designed to let college students to add classes and collaborate with teachers and classmates on Facebook.

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Candid

OCTOBER 29, 2021

The Aligning Science Across Parkinson's (ASAP) initiative has announced grants totaling $132 million over three years in support of collaborative research to better understand the underlying causes of Parkinson's disease.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

Social Good Brazil followed on the heels of Mashable and the UN Foundation's Social Good Summit , which was held in New York City in September. Social Good Brazil was an opportunity to continue the global conversation of how to use technology for social good as well as showcase the work of inspiring Brazilians.

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NTEN

APRIL 2, 2012

The Challenge involved fifty of the industry's top digital analysts who collaborated to solve real world digital challenges for two nonprofits: Oceana and United Way of the Bay Area. TabTimes has extended a special invitation for NTEN members for their conference, “ How to Deploy Tablets in the Enterprise ,” April 27, in New York City.

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NonProfit Hub

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Five years ago, at the Belfer Center for Innovation & Social Impact in New York City, #GivingTuesday started as a response to the Black Friday and Cyber Monday crazes that follow Thanksgiving.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 8, 2012

Games are a $60 billion global industry. (MB). Farmville and FoldIt (showing the architecture of the AIDS virus) are related in terms of collaboration, crowdsourcing solutions through social play. (JD). A Selection of Strategic Game Design Lessons for Nonprofits. Game Audiences. 60% of casual gamers are women. community. (BJ).

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Top Nonprofits

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Wendy has worked with senior executives of global organizations to transform their leadership, culture, and organizations. Her field of expertise is in working with leadership and organizations to build their own bridges from legacy to leading edge by identifying blockers and sparking new ways of thinking, doing and being.

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Everyaction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Opportunity Collaboration. Opportunity Collaboration. Opportunity Collaboration / Cancún Yucatán, (Int.) Global delegates. The BoardSource Leadership Forum (BLF) is a global conference focused on nonprofit leadership at the highest level – the board of directors. New partnerships with other sectors.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

Late last year, I spoke with Michael Sindicich, general manager of TripActions Liquid (the company’s unit that is focused on general expense management), and he told me the company counts among its customers small SMB companies — from around the 200 employee range — to multi-global, large enterprises including some Fortune 500 companies.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 10, 2022

In September, I attended several events as part of Climate Week in New York City, all of which focused on sustainability and how to accelerate the ecopreneur revolution. That was the message we repeated everywhere in New York: Emissions reduction first, and carbon credits as a secondary—but parallel—option.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 13, 2012

org is building a global grassroots movement to solve the climate crisis and push for policies that will put the world on track to reduce our planetary CO2 to safe levels - 350 parts per million. The organization is one of the most prominent front -line, direct-action environmental nonprofits addressing the problem of global climate change.

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Forum One

MAY 10, 2021

While in some cases this is fine, in many others it takes away from the ability to collaborate more closely and ultimately build an even stronger solution. To tackle this challenge, we recently piloted a new component-based design approach that prioritizes real-time collaboration.

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Forum One

MAY 30, 2007

Read More » Collaboration for Funders: Understanding the Challenges Joe Anderson in Influence 1 Jul 2010 This is part two of a series on online collaboration for grantmakers. In part one, we looked at determing the value of creating a collaboration community.If

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 19, 2007

Read More » Collaboration for Funders: Understanding the Challenges Joe Anderson in Influence 1 Jul 2010 This is part two of a series on online collaboration for grantmakers. In part one, we looked at determing the value of creating a collaboration community.If

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 26, 2018

Last week I had the pleasure of attending the United Nations Global Compact Network USA Symposium in New York City. As Lise Kingo, CEO and executive director of UN Global Compact observes, the amount needed to finance the SDGs is about 50% of all global capital. So what else can we do? What else can YOU do?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

SparkCognition achieved unicorn status earlier this year while ICON recently raised $185 million in a Tiger Global-led round that valued it at “nearly $2 billion.” Venture capitalists from both coasts are also increasingly drawn to the city. Doing so is a bit like trying to compare New York City with Hong Kong.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2022

Micromobbin’ Hello micromobbin’ frens, let’s kick things off by turning our attention to New York City. Kyte raised $200 million in asset-backed credit financing from Goldman Sachs and Ares Global Management to pay for new vehicles that will fuel the on-demand car rental startup’s expansion.

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Nonprofits Source

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

JPMorgan Chase JPMorgan Chase, founded in 1799, is a global leader in financial services, with operations in more than 100 countries and over 4,700 branches worldwide. Headquartered in New York City, the company aims to create inclusive economic growth through responsible banking and community investments.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 23, 2022

In other uplifting news, it’s nearly the end of the week. And if you’re staring outside at the same New York City skyline I am, the weather’s beautiful. With folks and workers stuck at home, digital became the only way to collaborate, stay current and find a modicum of escape. It won’t be one to miss.

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DNL OmniMedia

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Plus, the internet has no borders, meaning you can tap into a global audience. This organization provides music education, therapy, and musical engagement opportunities across New York City’s five boroughs.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 13, 2012

org is building a global grassroots movement to solve the climate crisis and push for policies that will put the world on track to reduce our planetary CO2 to safe levels - 350 parts per million. The organization is one of the most prominent front -line, direct-action environmental nonprofits addressing the problem of global climate change.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 8, 2015

Our events are powered by a global network of volunteers dedicated to building strong, self-sufficient, local communities of nonprofit technology practitioners. They're the new Santa Claus, offering #nptech gifts year-round! We're a global movement with chapters in 20 countries. Newest NetSquared Groups.

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Kaggle Blog

APRIL 20, 2020

Baseline estimates are linear combinations of three parts: global (one parameter $latex mu$), user (one parameter per user $latex mu_u$), and package (one parameter per package $latex mu_p$). Max Lin is a software engineer with Google Research in New York City office, and the tech lead of the Google Prediction API.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

IMPACT 2030 is the Global Summit at the United Nations Headquarters in New York City. Malini Mehra, CEO of Global Legislators Organization for a Balanced Environment (GLOBE), added that the millennial generation is the most educated in history. Particularly, the private sector must act to make a difference.

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Tech Soup

MAY 9, 2016

We're a global movement with chapters in 20 countries. The **NetSquared Victoria** team has been investigating [tools for online collaboration]([link] Check out the storify! * Storytelling is our focus for May, but every month our global network of community organizers host Tech4Good events in more than 50 cities.

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Google Research AI blog

JANUARY 18, 2023

In MaxViT, a multi-axis attention mechanism conducts blocked local and dilated global attention sequentially followed by a FFN , with only a linear complexity. Right: Parti generated image from the prompt, "A teddy bear wearing a motorcycle helmet and cape car surfing on a taxi cab in New York City. dslr photo."

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 23, 2006

Heddy also writes for the Global Youth Fund blog. When I returned to the US, I founded the USA chapter in New York City with long-time Never Again member, Marian Hodgkin from the UK. I traveled to Rwanda in December 2005-January 2006 and did field work with Never Again-Rwanda.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 7, 2016

One of those organizations is the YWCA of the City of New York (YW), a nonprofit organization that offers job training, daycare, and after-school programs to New York City women and their families.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JANUARY 7, 2022

New York 2140. New York 2140. It follows the lives of multiple people in a New York City that has changed a lot, but in some ways hasn’t changed at all. Making any meaningful change will require radical collaboration across the public, private, and governmental sectors. Modern Metaphysical.

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Bloomerang

MAY 6, 2022

The Awesome Foundation is a global community advancing the interest of “awesome in the universe,” mostly through providing $1,000 micro-grants. They support organizations that are leaders in what they do, demonstrate innovation, and align and collaborate with others to achieve workable solutions to community issues. Mazda Foundation.

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