Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

Moreover, these accessible books are available for free, since the United States Government funds the Bookshare library to meet requirements in national disability rights and education laws. With this universal design approach , e-books that meet the needs of students with disabilities simply work better for everyone.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 9, 2013

Together with our partners in the nonprofit, technology, government, academic and publishing sectors, we participate in new cultural and technological movements, deriving new knowledge that we apply for social gain. Digitization and globalization are giving rise to growing publishing markets that promise new business opportunities.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 10, 2011

T, December 10th, the international community is observing Human Rights Day to commemorate the 63rd anniversary of the creation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Many challenges to global respect of human rights still lie ahead, and many more groups around the world need our help.

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Forum One

MARCH 9, 2023

I find the rapid developments in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) thrilling, with endless applications for our Forum One partners, but I know from discussions with my counterparts in government agencies that AI and ML can also be mystifying, and even scary. ‍Jay earned a B.A.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 17, 2013

Just to give you a few examples: He is a co-founder of Teach a Man to Fish , a global network that promotes “education that pays for itself,” partnering with dozens of organizations around the world to establish self-sufficient schools in rural areas that teach independence and sustainability to young people from poor families. and Africa.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

Nike launched the GreenXchange , and the Young Global Leaders had a humanitarian patent licensing concept that seemed promising. My main talk was at a session on commercialization of university research. Here's what I said. This will need both strong voluntary action as well as public purpose exceptions.

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EveryAction

AUGUST 14, 2017

From publishing the first-ever global research report on disabilities among refugees to playing a significant part in the passage of two critical UN Security Council Resolutions, WRC has long been a pivotal player in humanitarian action. Concern Worldwide’s global community operates on the belief that eliminating extreme poverty is possible.

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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. Lorenzo has over ten years of experience in public policy, government, talent pipeline development, diversity, and inclusion. Senior Director, Global Partner Engagement, Salesforce.org.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 4, 2012

This level of increased global philanthropy is worth a further look. The Hudson Institute’s Center for Global Prosperity recently published its Annual Index of Global Philanthropy and Remittances for 2010 and reported “financial flows to the developing world from the United States increased notably in 2010 to $326.4 Remittances.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

It’s why the great majority of accessibility work is done by volunteers, charities, and with government support. If our Bookshare team is trying to help a blind student in India get a book she needs for university, make it easy for us to do that. That’s so 20th Century (or 19th?)!

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The NonProfit Times

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Secretary of Health and Human Service Nancy Brown Chief Executive Officer American Heart Association Under Brown’s leadership as CEO since 2008, the AHA has become a global authority on cardiovascular and brain health as well as overall well-being. She has also served on the advisory board of the National Hispanic University.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 15, 2010

I worked for the Chalkboard Project fresh out of university, a nonprofit organization founded and fueled by Foundations for a Better Oregon, a coalition of foundations in Oregon focused on collaborating to make a meaningful impact to issues in Oregon – in the case of the Chalkboard Project, that focus was on public education reform.

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Association TV

JULY 29, 2022

University of Technology Research Fellow, Augustin Chevez and Senior Lecturer, DJ Huppatz note one early example of the office in classical art: Botticelli’s “Saint Augustine in His Study,” painted all the way back in 1480. By the late 17th Century, lawyers, doctors and government employees were toiling in offices built all across Europe.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 26, 2021

But for some, it’s taken a global pandemic to see that truth reflected in daily reality. On a global scale, we see unequal access to vaccines. This multi-dimensional, global health partnership of public and private sector organizations brings together experts from vaccine development, procurement, and rollout.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 16, 2008

The incoming Obama administration is pledging to use some innovative internet strategies to expand citizen access to government information and processes. government CTO, spoke about how DC has created more than 200 data feeds on D.C. A tall order. For example, Vivek Kundra, the Washington, D.C. city issues and indicators.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MAY 18, 2021

In June 2020, Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance and other partners launched COVAX, a global alliance whose goal is to ensure that people in all corners of the world get access to COVID-19 vaccines, regardless of their wealth. The pandemic has demonstrated that global cross-sector collaboration is crucial to face a crisis of this magnitude.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 10, 2013

This hackathon took place at San Francisco State University's Paul J. The diverse crowd, made up of students, activists, government employees, and librarians, worked on datasets presented by the U.S. The participants were tasked with developing digital tools to help nonprofits and government agencies work better together.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 27, 2010

The benefits of collocating the social entrepreneurs in one place has been proven in past years: a large amount of the value of attending the WEF is meeting with global social entrepreneur colleagues, and trading notes about the best ways to change the world for the better.

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The NonProfit Times

MAY 31, 2024

Kate Behncken is corporate vice president, global head of Microsoft Philanthropies, a global, multi-disciplinary team that brings together corporate social responsibility, sales and engineering functions. Do you see the global south playing a more significant role for Microsoft Philanthropies in the future versus now?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

As I was listening to the panels surrounded by global social innovators, the multiple meaning of the word “social” struck me. Kriss led the development of a new mission and strategy that has established CSI as a global leader in the emerging social innovation field. conference (Rio+2.0: This post was originally published here.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

We are at a very interesting time – with shifts happening locally and globally, governments changing, and new paradigms emerging. I have heard before: I’m a university library, so I can’t learn from or build on the work from the community library because it is just so different here.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 19, 2013

Education was her way out, but when she signed up for graduate studies at New York University, she returned to live with her parents and became involved in and reacquainted with her neighborhood. open source design or DIY manufacturing) to create customized products in small batches and the global reach of the Internet to sell them.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 26, 2021

This lab will bring together leaders from across the nonprofit, government, and for-profit sectors to lend their expertise to ideate and co-design technology solutions to advance progress on this issue. He holds a master’s in neuroscience and a master’s in public policy from the University of Oxford, where he studied as a Rhodes scholar.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 1, 2013

This map is one of a series of 80 global maps describing the state of terrestrial, freshwater, and marine habitats. It is the result of a collaborative data and data visualization project undertaken by the Nature Conservancy scientists, working with governments, scientists and conservation organizations around the world.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2011

And the circumstances under which user data is provided to governments, or human rights information and accounts are taken down from services are not always transparent. A few years back a fellow activist asked how the Universal Declaration of Human Rights could be embedded into Web 2.0 and that phrase still sticks with me.

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Bloomerang

MAY 6, 2021

I’m not sure even the global scientists, engineers, and futurists have a full sense of where we’re heading with AI. Facebook, which is the dominant social networking platform globally with 2.4 Google, which is the most-used search engine globally, was founded in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while both were Ph.D.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MARCH 10, 2022

Whether we’ve convened in-person or virtually during a global pandemic, our Salesforce.org nonprofit community never misses an opportunity to celebrate, learn, and imagine a better, more equal world — together. Head of Global Events at Salesforce.org. . Traci leads the global events strategy for Salesforce.org.

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Blue Avocado

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Recent news reports suggest that the average global temperature may rise more than 1.5 Seventy-five years ago, when the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted, we were entering a period of growing affluence, conditions favorable to a sense of generosity toward the needs and rights of others. But we need to prepare now.

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Forum One

JULY 1, 2021

Last summer, after making the decision to continue our internship program virtually despite the global pandemic, we decided it was important for us to again offer the program virtually. Ayomide Fatoye, Technical Team – Ayomide attends Texas A&M University majoring in General Engineering – Computer Science.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 12, 2009

Centers for Disease Control and the University of Georgia’s New Media Institute. In one day, more than 20 students from 6 universities and five AIDS organizations hit the streets with only cellphone video cameras to produce 8 short video messages to encourage youth to be tested for HIV. Cool Factor : Government Goes Mobile.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Hunger is a global issue that affects everyone, everywhere. An estimated 811 million people are hungry globally. Supporting them is not only essential to the global community’s food supply, but also to the day-to-day well-being of the communities in which they work and live. Why Small-Scale Farmers? Dun-Ying Vicki Yu.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

Here is the evidence from one global campaign in 2010 to demonstrate how different digital channels compared. A common strategy is to recruit and mobilise large number of people to put public pressure on a person, government of company. This meant it was an amazing opportunity to run an integrated multi-channel global campaign.

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Forum One

AUGUST 29, 2023

A strength of Forum One is that because we have worked with so many stellar nonprofits and government agencies of all sizes we’ve seen what works. Using AI to Guide a Career Path in Government U.S. in Business from Towson University. We design new, fresh solutions based on tested, proven approaches.” Steven hold a B.A.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 7, 2013

Data Digest is a weekly round-up of the latest news on data-related projects in the nonprofit sector, compiled and authored by Keisha Taylor of GuideStar International and TechSoup Global. Big Data and Global Development. It was originally published on NetSquared. Data Use by Citizens.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Lobbying with local governments with the aim to make national policy changes. Educational and career exposure activities for high school, college, and university students , and graduates pursuing STEM studies. Tsofen is working on three main impact areas: Breaking barriers for Arab talents within the high-tech industry.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 5, 2013

The Basic Registry of Identified Global Entities (BRIDGE) is a new collaborative project that aims to revolutionize information sharing, in order to better understand the flows of philanthropic dollars and enhance transparency and effectiveness in the global social sector. … VV: Why do we need a new numbering system?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

They are accustomed to thinking that a government controls its citizens — that a film or documentary cannot be produced without government approval. Co-create narratives with global partners that are based in local voice and respect for local communities, and invest in building networks that aim at community vitality.

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