Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 21, 2008

Our HumanRights team, including Benetech Research Fellow Amelia Hoover and fieldconsultants Tamy Guberek and Daniel Guzmán, presented our initial findings on violations in Colombia to an enthusiastic audience of ICC investigators and analysts. You can visit our Colombia Project Page to read more about this work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 17, 2006

story and photo via Ricardo's Blog. Ricardo tells her story on his blog: Maria Estela built a glove that allows speech-challenged people to move their fingers in a similar fashion to Braille language and have those signals recognized by software that converts them into speech. Colombia???s Her passion is electronics.

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APRIL 17, 2008

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the Honorable President of Liberia, as well as women leaders from Colombia, South Africa, Malaysia, Liberia, Bosnia/Herzogovina and Egypt will be honored at the event. Enter the raffle by sharing an inspiring story about a woman, or women, who you consider to be leaders.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2007

Global NpTech: African Civil Society to Colombia Saidia.Org Blog is gathering stories about Web2.0 and African civil society for Web2 for Dev Nancy White is doing workshops in Colombia. He did a video interview with Dirk Slater , too! Check out the nonprofitmanagement wiki ! Follow her trail here.

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JUNE 30, 2006

It was a little over 10 minutes long and talked about medical needs in Sudan, the ongoing challenges in Colombia and how people with HIV/AIDS in the developing world are being denied access to new "second-line" AIDS medicine. (My

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Andrea Ortega, Director of Nonprofit Services Andrea hails from Cali, Colombia by way of Miami, FL. We want to ensure you’re prepared to share your nonprofit’s story and successfully navigate this worldwide giving event! Share your story. in Public Affairs at UCF with a focus in Nonprofit Management. About #GivingTuesday.

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 9, 2017

Nonprofits have a leg up over other brands vying for attention on Facebook since every single nonprofit has a multitude of meaningful stories to tell. There is no need for them to manufacture a story to evoke emotion or educate. This 30-second video did not need an elaborate story to tell. Less is more. Don’t overthink it.

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Tech Soup

MAY 12, 2014

I also liked the work we did a few years ago to support telecentres in poor communities affected by civil war in Colombia. Do you have a story about global philanthropy you'd like share? One of the things TechSoup does well is to bring relevant tools and resources to the needs that people have on the ground.

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JULY 24, 2017

And if you prefer your media in audio-visual form, here are two videos from recent talks about the book: A 12-minute talk about The Art of Relevance for a broad audience at TedXPaloAlto A 30-minute talk plus Q&A, with a slant towards science centers at ECSITE in Portugal Finally, I'll be sharing stories of relevance live and in-person this fall (..)

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

Maximizing each partners’ strength, global reach and diverse experience, we are coming together to tell the story of progress (and lack thereof) for girls and women against the promises guaranteed in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

Maximizing each partners’ strength, global reach and diverse experience, we are coming together to tell the story of progress (and lack thereof) for girls and women against the promises guaranteed in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 26, 2020

We wanted to share stories of that help and local support, otherwise everything would have been confounded in misery. Imagine living amidst conflict in Yemen, or avoiding your backyard in Colombia because there may be weapons leftover from war that are contaminating your land. Individual teachers and schools were.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 5, 2013

Asia is also a good news-bad news story. Four countries in Latin America now have e-waste laws or rules: Costa Rica, Colombia, Peru, and Brazil. Switzerland was the first country in the world to adopt an electronics recycling system is 1991.Things Things are actually going pretty well in Europe. percent, the highest in the world.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 19, 2009

You can read about some of the NGOs that have used Martus to back up their data in Guatemala, Sri Lanka, the Phillippines, and Colombia. In my next guest blog posts, I will share stories about my work in Beirut and Istanbul.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 14, 2007

If you aren't familiar with Pearl's story, she is a pretty phenomenal person. This clothbound, limited edition book includes over 200 full color photos from Pearl's travels, as well as updates to some of the the interviews since they originally appeared in Glamour. It would be legitimate for him to be scared; aren't we all?

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DECEMBER 19, 2007

A month ago I listened to Christine Karumba, the Country Director for Women for Women International in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, tell Honorata's story on the Voices on Genocide Prevention podcast. Each had their own stories of horror, of lives lost, and of struggling to regain their dignity. She received the John F.

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APRIL 2, 2008

A truly remarkably story of very every day mothers and daughters in Liberia who were just so sick of the civil war between Charles Taylor, and then the rebels in Liberia, being funded with Sierra Leone diamonds essentially, that they mobilized an entire community of women around peace. KR: Actually that is the easiest part of this job.

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