Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 25, 2014

While generation Z is not yet influential on your fundraising campaigns, nonprofits that work in education, child services, and youth empowerment should be laying a foundation now for future outreach. Millennials (Born 1980–2000, Currently Ages 14–34).

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 28, 2014

He oversaw the development of numerous products and services that allow us to drive social empowerment through technology across all our programs. He also championed an open source ethos so that our work can be broadly shared (you can view all our open source projects on GitHub ).

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sgEngage

JANUARY 8, 2025

It is essential for us to name and spend time sitting with what is not working so that it can act as a foundation for our learning journey. The lack of inclusion and empowerment in decision-making compounds these challenges. These are the key elements of our work that changemakers want to leave behind.

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Everyaction

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

Created in 1998, the United Nations Foundation links the United Nations' work with others around the world, helping the UN address a range of global issues, including climate change, global health, women’s empowerment, peace and security, poverty eradication, and more. What does the United Nations Foundation do?

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Candid

JULY 2, 2021

The Bill & Melinda Gates , Ford , and Open Society foundations have announced commitments of $2.1 The commitment includes $650 million to expand the foundation's support for women's empowerment collectives and efforts to strengthen the care economy, improve women's financial inclusion, and reduce barriers to paid work; and $1.4

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Kindful

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Many foundations focus much of their philanthropy work on youth empowerment—and for good reason. The foundations on this list are just a few of the many that understand the importance that youth empowerment plays in helping young people from all backgrounds grow and excel during this critical stage of their life.

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Candid

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

As People For the American Way Foundation wrestles with these same questions, we’ll share insights from some recent successes. In our case, we found a desire for peer support, community bonding, and empowerment. Three elements of success for multigenerational organizing 1. How can the campaigns best meet their needs?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Image & Details: Looking Out Foundation Pride 2023 ​ and Pride 2023 Campaign Page Credit: GregTheFine – Outsized Marketing for Mid-Size Nonprofits The Trevor Project enjoys a strong partnership with Macy’s. Heifer’s foundation page provides visuals and details on how gifts make an immediate and long-term impact.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Build a foundation for innovation At Whipsaw, collaboration is at the core of our ethos and process. Start with clarity: Define the why Clarity is the foundation of any successful innovation effort. Weve found success in cultivating a culture of empowerment and growth.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 20, 2009

"After running successful community websites in London's challenging Kings Cross I wanted to help other communities achieve the same sense of empowerment and communication. The Current Nonprofit Landscape: "We are all in this together" - Are you a nonprofit or foundation in Portland/Oregon? "It Learn more here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 7, 2012

” The blog post is about the launch of the Boston Foundation’s new resource for community organizations and media, the Boston Indicators Project website. If you know of or have examples of data literacy curriculum for nonprofits or data empowerment for community organization, let me know in the comments.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 25, 2010

Will the contest provide a meaningful opportunity for stakeholder empowerment? Let’s continue the conversation over at the Case Foundation Blog and share our recipes for special sauces. Tags: Fundraising ROI Strategy agc2 case foundation contests. Can we follow up with new stakeholders that we connect with?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2012

We know that when low-income families can access other people’s consumer feedback it is both extremely useful and a source of empowerment. In addition to nonprofits, increasingly individual donors and foundations read reviews of nonprofits. This exchange is empowering, and technology has made it more accessible.

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sgEngage

APRIL 1, 2024

Whether you’re interested in learning about responsible AI, cybersecurity, APIs , staff empowerment, or something specific about Blackbaud software , we’ve got a session for you. Blackbaud’s 2024 ATLIS sessions include: 1. Discover the power of practicality in cybersecurity management with this insightful presentation!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 18, 2017

The Forgotten Roots of Capacity Development in the Movement for Ownership and Empowerment. One set of resources that I didn’t find lacking was the plethora of tools available to organizations and foundations who want to improve the way they function. We are not the only sector that falls into that trap.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2011

Knight Foundation and Monitor Institute published a new report called “ Connected Citizens &# that looks at the impact of networks on communities, and asks, what do these emerging networks mean for community change? This blog post at the Knight Foundation talks about designing for serendipity in more detail.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 23, 2007

Schwab Foundation board members Paolo Coehlo (the noted Brazilian author), Zanelle Mbeki (first lady of South Africa) and Hilde Schwab, the co-founder of the Schwab Foundation. The foundation community was also well represented, especially the Skoll Foundation.

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Candid

APRIL 16, 2024

A report from the Center for Expanding Leadership & Opportunity (CELO) and The Allstate Foundation explores how Gen Z is expanding the definition of “community service” and seeking to maximize impact—for themselves and the communities they serve. The imperative to center youth also applies to funders.

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Tableau

MAY 24, 2021

In parallel, the Tableau Foundation launched the Racial Justice Data Initiative to build the data capacity of national, regional, and community-based organizations working to fight anti-Black racism in the United States. The bills that passed share a common foundation. Together, we can truly be a platform for change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2007

MacArthur Foundation hosted its first discussion in Second Life to explore the role that philanthropy might play in virtual worlds. Foundations don't do it directly but via nonprofits. If you think about what a foundation has to offer, money for sure, we're also good at convening people. The John D. and Catherine T.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 7, 2008

This critique does make the strong case that activism and advocacy are not separable from social entrepreneurship, they are foundational to a field whose defining single point of commonality is a commitment to social mission. they are not. The policy recommendations in Just Another Emperor seek to ensure that no good deed goes unpunished.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 11, 2012

Her clients have included The Ford Foundation, The Daily Beast/Newsweek , and Jim Hightower's Hightower Lowdown. How You Will Change the World with Social Networking Deanna Zandt is a media technologist and the author of Share This! How You Will Change the World with Social Networking.

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Deborah Elizabeth Finn

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

The origins of some foundations’ wealth, which in some cases includes slavery and other forms of exploitation. Unicorns Unite: How nonprofits and foundations can build EPIC Partnerships. In the March Toward Equity and Justice, Foundations Need to Remember: It’s Not Our Money to Control. Here are 6 ways it could go.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2012

After finishing a four-day intensive training in Delhi for the Networked NGO , I stayed on a few days in India to visit colleague, Rufina Fernandez, who I met when she was the CEO of the Nasscom Foundation when she brought me to India to speak at the leadership conference and teach workshops back in 2010.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 26, 2011

I’ve had the pleasure of working closely with Compasspoint as part of my continuing work as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. CEO and President of Silicon Valley Community Foundation. The lunchtime conversation was with Emmett D. Carson , Ph.D.,

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 13, 2015

Mission: To help eradicate extreme poverty through community development projects in urban sanitation, water filtration, health, alternative energy, and economic empowerment. Project 1948 Foundation ● project1948.ngo. Kijani ● kijani.ngo. Mission: To restore Kenyan highland forests and elevate the discussion on sustainability.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Under the theme “Achieving Our Vision through Empowerment and Partnerships,” this was the first-ever combined General Assembly of both WBU and the International Council for Education of People with Visual Impairment ( ICEVI ), another world-class organization in the field. The November 2012 General Assembly took place in Bangkok, Thailand.

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NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Knowledge is essential because it lays the foundation for all of our actions with donors. Culture focuses on empowerment, excellence, and gratitude to help define your organization’s interactions with donors. Empowerment is hard to define, but when it’s not present in an organization, it shines brightly. It is a mindset.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2011

I’ve had a lot of experience with online contests, both as a participant (winner) and working two reflection papers for the Case Foundation ‘s America’s Giving Challenge. NStreet Village : N Street Village is a community of empowerment and recovery for homeless and low-income women in Washington, D.C.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2010

But as Daniel Ben-Horin said, “Our theory of change states that software products are necessary, but not sufficient for empowerment of social change organizations. Lisa Brummel, SVP, Human Resources, Microsoft; Tom Moran, United Way Loaned Executive; Rajesh Munshi; Xiang Li, Givology; Adnan Mahmud, Jolkona Foundation.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 9, 2023

As Ceri Hutton wrote for the Baring Foundation, “PGM [participatory grantmaking] funds denote a different paradigm of funding and monitoring and evaluation need to be ‘re-evaluated’ in the light of this.” As the art critic John Berger said in his book Ways of Seeing , “We only see what we look at. To look is an act of choice.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2011

While I faced a difficult decision culling winners from the forty focused initiatives described in the entries, I selected the following based on their innovative and courageous approaches to a variety of social issues, from new types of housing for the underserved, to animal welfare, to women’s empowerment. We’re the Safe America Foundation.

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Forum One

MARCH 8, 2021

As we highlight our staff who are raising their hands high to reinforce and show solidarity on social media today, we also wanted to highlight our clients doing important work moving the needle forward for women’s equality and empowerment. Telling stories through images of empowerment. As one of the largest foundations in the U.S.,

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Tech Soup

JUNE 25, 2013

The Media and Training Centre for Health specializes in the design and development of community learning models that promote health and empowerment in marginalized communities. Peace Parks Foundation was spearheaded by former South African President Nelson Mandela with the mission to protect natural preserves in South Africa and beyond.

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Nimble AMS

MAY 28, 2024

Sometimes it truly is “back to basics” so that you can rebuild a foundation that can be built upon. Remind your staff that success often stems from mastering these foundational elements rather than pursuing complex strategies. Apple, for example, focused on minimalist designs that allowed for intuitive use.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Mary Mwende told us about her journey from Mombasa, Kenya, to being one of ten girls chosen for the Global Give Back Circle , a mentoring and empowerment program. Peter Shiras joined us from another great youth organization, the International Youth Foundation (IYF).

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Tableau

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Speed, agility, and empowerment are crucial to thriving in this new environment. With its LookML modeling language, Looker provides a unique, modern approach to define governed and reusable data models to build a trusted foundation for analytics. October 12, 2021. However, most organizations struggle to become data driven.

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