Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 9, 2018

Literacy and access to knowledge underpins just about every social good, from education, to economic development, to health, to women’s empowerment, democracy and respect for human rights. Together with the World Blind Union and other campaigners, we set out to get a global treaty that would not only replicate the U.S.

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Givinga

JANUARY 26, 2021

COVID-19 showcased the huge opportunity for companies, on a global scale, to play a more pronounced, proactive and impactful role, through impact innovation. We helped LIVELY formulate a list of 10 charities that promote social justice through a variety of areas including legal, advocacy and women’s empowerment.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 3, 2013

Guest Beneblog by Betsy Beaumon, VP and General Manager, Benetech’s Global Literacy Program. With the goal of promoting braille literacy, this landmark meeting brought together braille experts from around the world to Perkins’ campus in Watertown, Massachusetts. Accordingly, U.S. federal law supports braille instruction.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 10, 2016

The royalties that I earn from my books have been donated to nonprofits to support women’s and girl’s empowerment work and given this past week, I am all the more convinced of the need to support such programs. I am honored to be an advisor to WAKE, whose mission is to amplify the work of women leading change globally.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Our new, fully integrated framework, which aligns focus with firm leadership, personal interests and the sustainable development goals of hunger and gender equality, is: Purpose at PIMCO. As a firm, our family of 2,600 professionals across 17 global offices engages in volunteer opportunities throughout the Americas, Europe, and Asia.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 23, 2022

Empowerment is the greatest form of impact. It’s one of the most effective ways for companies to achieve social impact goals. Whatever happens in our communities — locally and globally — affects us all. Because it’s not something you can give, but rather a way to unlock the potential in others. Communities Thrive.

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Classy

APRIL 27, 2021

That’s especially true coming off of a year defined by a global pandemic, social justice movements, and a tense presidential election. She knew the job aligned her life experience, education, and passion to learn more about trauma, grit, grief, and resilience. Krista joined the Austin Angels staff in 2018 without hesitation.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 19, 2011

SAP's donation program is part of their overall social benefit efforts , which aim to accomplish the following goals: Impacting 1,000,000 lives by focusing on meeting basic needs, enhancing education, and creating sustainable growth and economic opportunity. Tech for Good.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 7, 2022

Global Fund for Women. Wallace Global Fund. This foundation provides approximately $130 million each year in total grant activity supporting nonprofits that provide direct services in the areas of Housing, Health, Jobs, Education, and Community Services. Boulware Foundation. Vermont Women’s Fund. eWomen Foundation.

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Kindful

MARCH 5, 2021

Global Fund for Women. Wallace Global Fund. This foundation provides approximately $130 million each year in total grant activity supporting nonprofits that provide direct services in the areas of Housing, Health, Jobs, Education, and Community Services. Boulware Foundation. Vermont Women’s Fund. eWomen Foundation.

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Forum One

MAY 17, 2010

Currently, we are working on building clientele in Doha, Qatar as we continue to work with longtime partners the Supreme Education Council and the Supreme Council of Information Communication and Technology. Online tools can greatly assist with collaboration, cultural education and developing business ideas.

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Tech Soup

JULY 8, 2011

by Dinesh Venkateswaran, Manager - Global Data Acquisitions, TechSoup Global. “[In Africa] the race is on to find what mobiles can do in areas as disparate as public health, governance and education.” ” Ricken Patel of Awaaz.org talking about how focus on technology many times eclipses the social goal.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

Empowerment for our participants comes from connecting to an inner wisdom that is often kept hidden from public view, but is a place of extraordinary innate strength and well being. Connecting personal wisdom to effect positive change is our goal. Each card is a piece of art in my mind. What is the path that brought you to this work?

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

If you don't have a local group (I can help fix that problem! ), there are also free online guides and a global Twitter chat October 5 using the hashtag #storymakers2017. Orlando, Florida: Microsoft Gives Back: Community, Education, and Philanthropy. Buffalo, New York: What Are Realistic IT Goals for Our Nonprofits?

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 28, 2006

She is the co-founder and co-director of Women's Global Green Action Network , a nonprofit that cultivates global partnerships of grassroots women environmental leaders by providing access to communication tools, support services and networking capabilities. Below is a transcript of an interview with her from the Big Vision Podcast.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 29, 2015

HOW (slides 24-42) There are three “tracks” to our theory of change: individual empowerment, social bonding, and social bridging. Let’s start with empowerment. Empowerment is the “individual” side of our theory of change. We’re making our focus on community more overt, tangible, and measurable. I want all museums to have that.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 8, 2022

Through projects focused on communication and education, youth empowerment, direct action, research, and material science, we create success stories that set new standards and provide the roadmaps for others to follow. The goal of Parley is to make sure we move fast enough to rise and meet it. . Collaboration is the way forward.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2012

“Anyone who works for the State Department knows that they work for women and for the advancement and empowerment of women,” said Alec Ross , Secretary Clinton’s Special Advisor for Innovation, with pride at the opening of TechCamp Tel Aviv. TechCamp Global FB page - https://www.facebook.com/TechCampGlobal.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 6, 2010

We do that through educational dinner circles, which we call "chapters." We, "we" being the Dining for Women headquarters, prepare an educational program. The education is as important to our mission as the fundraising is. The education is key. That's so fantastic.

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Non Profit Quarterly

MARCH 2, 2022

Similarly, there has been a global rise of worker-managed platform cooperatives in response to the rise of platform companies. To achieve these goals, the Drivers Cooperative faces substantial challenges. Drivers talked about their dream to somehow run their own app as an alternative to Uber. billion on the presidential election.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 20, 2009

My presentation concentrated on a few case studies where certain technologies were the appropriate tools for engagement and aided work to connect, empower, and educate youth communities. Youth Empowerment with Social Media. The Goals - yes, we all want to, in this case, fight knife crime; but that’s not our goal.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JULY 12, 2022

Before the global pandemic, intergenerational poverty and entrenched patterns of inequality dampened the future livelihoods of millions of children and their families across the globe. Established in 2015, CRUS is an independent global grantmaking sister organization to UK-based Comic Relief, which was founded in 1985.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

Redefining Philanthropy - Dwayne Rice Build a Salesforce application to facilitate a culture of philanthropy around education reform by providing a platform to track constituent engagement to lead people up the engagement ladder. The goal: greater open rates. Using scalable technology to access leadership and learning a minimal cost.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 29, 2009

Off the Mat, Into the World is an educational, experiential and motivational process for people interested in conscious activism and service. It got the seeds planted in my head that this is an altruistic community, it's an educated community. That is not what service should be about. We raised around $60,000 doing very little.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 2, 2008

Kavita Ramdas, President and CEO, Global Fund for Women. Kavita Ramdas is the President and CEO of the nonprofit, the Global Fund for Women. I think it's worth it (: Kavita Ramdas: The Global Fund for Women is the largest independent, publicly supported grant-making foundation to advance women's human rights internationally.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 29, 2006

How do we stop violence and how do we eradicate poverty in our communities, and uplift people, and how do we also do that in a way that respects the environment, that looks at innovation, and that addresses issues like global warming and peak-oil and environmental racism? How do we build new visions and programs that serve everybody?

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