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Working Towards a Common Global Goal: How Your Nonprofit Can Align with the SDGs

Media Cause

Every nonprofit, big or small, stands to gain from working towards a common global goal. What are the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals? The Cold War was creating widening rifts between the east and west, and a byproduct of that was contention within the United Nations.

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Weekly update from PND

Candid

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation , Citi, and others announced commitments in support of climate action on the second day of the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) being held in Glasgow, Scotland.

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My remarks just made at WIPO today

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

We now have global permissions for around 8,000 copyrighted books out of our 70,000. •

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Not Cause Washing: Facebook and Google Donate To Charities In Lieu of Parties and Gifts

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

As a board member of Ushahidi and an advisor to Global Voices - very pleased to see them on the list of recipients which also included those listed below.

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Accessibility Excitement in Geneva

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

This is totally the “how sausage and law are made” view, so don’t read this unless you want to know more about global accessibility in detail! The nexus for this work is the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), the United Nations agency that deals with such matters. I’ve been to national meetings in the U.S.

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World Cup: Who to Cheer For?

Have Fun - Do Good

Ghana game. Don't tell anyone, but I'm rooting for Ghana. I found the site through the blog, It's Getting Hot In Here: Dispatches from the Global Youth Climate Movement Photos via Aenneken's photo stream on Flickr. World Cup Ghana The World Development Movement has created an online tool called, Who Should I Cheer For?

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SAP Gives Back

Tech Soup

In Ghana, SAP is using their technology and volunteers in partnership with a leading NGO to help women create thriving businesses through the harvesting of shea nuts. Although one million people may seem like an enormous number, consider this: on October 31, 2011, the global population reached 7 billion. Seven Billion Actions.

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