Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 14, 2012

This global Martus meeting brought together individuals who use Martus to address different human rights documentation and security needs in widely varied projects, to share their successes and challenges with the software. When Benetech first began designing Martus, we began by incorporating input from human rights partners on the frontline.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

Technology and Community: Strategic Options for Movement Building. How many people hear that word and think it is just as generic as the word community? To that end, siloed brands are replaced by unifying goals that rally more than select individuals but entire communities. What’s our role? What is a movement?

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Bloomerang

JULY 6, 2023

This can help you start defining goals and considering which model strategic plan will best work for your organization. Choose a strategic planning model based on your nonprofit’s current circumstances, opportunities, and threats. It’s best to use this model when your organization’s external surroundings are generally calm.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MAY 19, 2021

Think about that for a moment — we have over 300 consulting and product partners that are serving thousands of organizations and institutions globally. OFM: A Model for Partner Participation in Open Source Community Projects. Now, you might think that is counterintuitive — why would you want to help your competition?!

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Candid

AUGUST 29, 2023

To this end, the Job-Demands-Resources model offers a simple equation: burnout = demands > resources. This model highlights three important things to understand about burnout: Burnout isn’t about too many demands but demands without enough resources. The global shifts and crises of the last few years have exacerbated these issues.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 28, 2010

This morning I had the great pleasure and honor to present at Amplified Leicester about Community-Driven Social Impact, and run a short strategy-building workshop. They are also hoping to learn from and document their experiences to share as a model with the larger global community looking to do something similar.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Governments were slowly waking up to the emergency, creating organizations like the Global Fund, one of the largest global health partnerships on the planet, but companies were still fast asleep. At that time, (RED) spoke at length about investments in global health systems, the importance of antiretroviral drugs, and so on.

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Candid

MARCH 9, 2022

Q&A with a Toledo-based library on building community capacity. Candid : What would you like people to know about your services and how you view your role in the community? First are the passionate individuals looking to start a new nonprofit to meet an emerging/existing need in their community.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 9, 2014

Investing in education has an incredible multiplier effect as it leads to increased prosperity not just for individuals, but also for their communities and societies. This topic was center-stage at this year’s Global Philanthropy Forum. It provides returns for decades. This is where philanthropy comes in.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

DECEMBER 15, 2021

We all have a responsibility to solve it, and civil society organisations play a critical role. Apply Pressure to Limit Global Warming to 1.5 The nonprofit sector is at the heart of helping communities adapt to the effects of climate change and is working across sectors to innovate new ways to address it.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Heroes emerge, who recognize that a strong grants management function leads to a funder’s ability to operate more equitably, with nimble practices rightsized and appropriate to the nonprofits and communities it seeks to support. Risk models were not designed for our sector. But the myth of risk stubbornly persists.

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Classy

APRIL 16, 2021

Environmental sustainability is an ongoing movement, and Earth Day is an excellent reminder of our role. We’re acknowledging eight nonprofits leading the charge with dedicated fundraising campaigns as communities unite to support a cleaner, healthier, and more sustainable planet. Kick Start Your Movement With Peer-to-Peer Fundraising.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 22, 2011

I had a really wonderful time, and the Community-Driven Social Impact session was terrific! Let’s start at the beginning: what is “community-driven social impact” anyway? CDSI is not something that you thought up inside your organization, even if you thought it up with your community in mind or at heart. Presentation.

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Candid

JANUARY 6, 2023

With all these options, we wanted to look back and highlight some of the Issue Lab community’s most popular publications in 2022, featuring a wide array of topics ranging from education to participatory grantmaking and beyond. Expanding Equity: Inclusion & Belonging Guidebook , by the W.K.

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Classy

APRIL 20, 2021

We recently sat down with Chris to talk through how his career experience—from Fair Trade to Salesforce to Classy—has uniquely prepared him to take on this role, his vision for Classy’s future, and why his obsession with verifiable value will lay the foundation for everything the company does moving forward. .

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Saleforce Nonprofit

APRIL 5, 2021

Additionally, Salesforce provides specific volunteering opportunities that align with its citizen philanthropy and strategic programs to maximize impact in the local communities. . Simbi’s virtual reading platform enables global literacy through the power of narration, creation, translation, and donation.

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sgEngage

JULY 20, 2021

Companies that operate globally will need to approach social justice as it relates to the needs of their employees and communities around the world. Blackbaud is a global company. As well, this year we published our first ESG results to the financial community. Want to see what this looks like in action?

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Saleforce Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

From the existential threat of human extinction to wars ravaging around the world, deadly forest fires and flooding, the ongoing threat to women’s rights globally — the list goes on and on. But each and every one of us, regardless of our age and background, can contribute to promoting peace in our communities and beyond. I know I do.

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Classy

APRIL 20, 2021

McGruder, the Ford Foundation’s Chief Operating Officer and Treasurer, oversees Ford’s global operations and finances for its offices in New York, Africa, Asia, and Latin America. In addition, Classy has a really impressive platform and business model with a lot of potential for growth given the broader societal shift to online giving.”.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

The nonprofit Benetech team built the revolutionary Bookshare library for this community, all online, and based on the powerfully flexible ebook. Our crowd sourced model couldn't scale to meet this need. You can take an ebook, push a button and make it Braille. Make it bigger. Make it talk. We thought the publishers might help.

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sgEngage

APRIL 21, 2021

While the approach isn’t necessarily new, it was catapulted into the national spotlight early last year, when the onset of a global pandemic pushed many in philanthropy to recognize the importance of trusting the leadership of nonprofits and communities. Underlying all of that is a commitment to recognizing and redistributing power.

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Candid

MARCH 1, 2023

The power of data for creating social change Data and analytics have long been used to improve the quality of products and services, optimize efficiency in production and distribution, and fundamentally shape business models. Candid is providing us with both the tool and an invitation to a community.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MARCH 14, 2022

They understand the concept of a global community and are good at making connections with people they might never meet. The pandemic and the shift online has helped them connect with people who share their values and find diverse role models. Talk to the younger people in your lives and communities. Sterrin Bird.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Recognizing that the effects of climate change aren’t equal, this lab aims to co-design a technology solution to support low-income communities of color that are most impacted by the climate crisis. Impact Labs convenes community experts across sectors to co-create new technology solutions to support specific issue areas.

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Classy

APRIL 29, 2021

Brings a strategic focus on addressing the policies and systems that perpetuate global poverty . President and CEO. Oxfam America. Chief Equity and Programs Officer.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 6, 2020

First up is Colleen Dilenschneider, the Chief Market Engagement Officer for IMPACTS, a global leader in predictive market intelligence and related technologies, and the publisher of one of our team’s favorite websites, Know Your Own Bone , which shares data and analysis about how cultural audiences think and behave.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 25, 2022

Many forces have exacerbated the need for nonprofits to shift their focus to employee well-being, including the global pandemic, economic uncertainty, the wealth gap and racial injustice. Kanter & Sherman remind us that respect, kindness and compassion must be modeled from the top-down in order to become an organizational norm.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 3, 2022

The Summit welcomed some of the most impressive individuals and organizations in the nonprofit sector, including Boys & Girls Clubs of America , Mary’s Meals, World Central Kitchen, the Ford Foundation, Greenpeace, Save the Children, and more to speak at the event’s global mainstage, in breakout sessions, and on thought leadership panels. .

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2018

What are the major complexities and pressures of your role? What is the hard work of leadership that you must tackle in your role? He is the Global Managing Director of Strategic Solutions with Lee Hecht Harrison. What hard work are you avoiding? Why are you avoiding it?

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 18, 2020

Once you have looked out for the safety and well being of your employees by implementing work from home, social distancing, and community hygiene, it is critical that you turn your attention to your organization’s future fiscal health. The dual shocks of COVID-19 and an oil price war have roiled global markets. Of course you do.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2014

Highlights of this Update: Human Rights Global Literacy Benetech Labs and Board of Directors Human Rights In the age of hyper-surveillance, it is clear that at-risk human rights defenders are no longer the only ones who need the know-how to protect sensitive information. Photo credit: Katy Steinmetz, TIME Magazine.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

What are the major complexities and pressures of your role? What is the hard work of leadership that you must tackle in your role? He is the Global Managing Director of Strategic Solutions with Lee Hecht Harrison. What hard work are you avoiding? Why are you avoiding it?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 9, 2017

What are the major complexities and pressures of your role? What is the hard work of leadership that you must tackle in your role? He is the Global Managing Director of Strategic Solutions with Lee Hecht Harrison. What hard work are you avoiding? Why are you avoiding it?

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

As the saying goes: It’s a tax status, not a business model. Fortunately, many nonprofit donors and charity rating groups are moving away from this way of thinking and are now acknowledging that operating reserves play a vital role in building an organization’s long-term sustainability. What Are Nonprofit Operating Reserves?

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The NonProfit Times

APRIL 18, 2024

That finding is curious because starting in March 2020 the coronavirus disrupted almost every facet of global living. Communities operated under shelter-in-space restrictions. When people feel their day is spent on mission-related activities, they’re going to be more satisfied in those roles.” But there are a few exceptions. “We

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JUNE 25, 2017

What are the major complexities and pressures of your role? What is the hard work of leadership that you must tackle in your role? He is the Global Managing Director of Strategic Solutions with Lee Hecht Harrison. What hard work are you avoiding? Why are you avoiding it?

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Leadership Chapter Roles Authoring 40

ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Many nonprofit organization employees work in direct service fields, meaning they are hands-on and emotionally connected to the vulnerable population their organization serves in the community. This creates more accessible mentorships for employees to sharpen their skills and learn more about their role in the organization.

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