Pamela Grow

JANUARY 11, 2024

We faced a global pandemic, resulting in oftentimes disastrous fundraising. The latest numbers from the Fundraising Effectiveness Project (FEP), reveal the number of donors industrywide fell for the ninth straight quarter in Q3 2023. Eroding Trust The loss of trust is now a global problem. Decreasing Giving and Inflation.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 8, 2010

The treaty does a lot of things, but let me highlight a few: • A global norm that there be copyright exceptions that allow for the making of accessible versions of copyrighted works for free on a nonprofit basis by a broad range of people or organizations, without having to get permission from the rightsholders. law today. •

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sgEngage

AUGUST 9, 2022

Years ago, I worked on a project where I was hired to interview about 75 different foundations in one state. Now that we are–unbelievably–at the two-and-a-half-year mark of the global pandemic, there has been some regression to our pre-COVID practices, and some foundations have settled back into status quo practices.

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Tech Soup

MAY 21, 2013

Get your world-changing ideas together and warm up your programming fingers because the National Day of Civic Hacking is happening across America on June 1 and 2, 2013. Using publicly-released data and code, participants will be able to swap ideas, share skills, and solve challenges that affect Americans on both local and national scales.

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Achieve

AUGUST 13, 2015

a global humanitarian organization dedicated to ending the clean water crisis in developing countries. a month for three months – at the end of which you’ve raised $5,000, enough for a fully funded water project. The problem with Millennials and fundraising isn’t that this generation doesn’t care enough to actually give.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 9, 2014

This topic was center-stage at this year’s Global Philanthropy Forum. Gallucci noted that there was one statistic that matters to him: “There are 39 million girls globally that should be in secondary education, and who are not.” It provides returns for decades.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Although the challenges we’re facing as a global community continue to compound, our global community of changemakers in the nonprofit and education sectors continues to address these challenges head-on to drive tangible and inspiring social impact. Our Community Co-Creates Solutions to Tackle Problems. Eric Barela.

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Candid

AUGUST 2, 2023

Whether it’s global heatwaves, flooding in Pakistan, Canadian wildfires that block out the sun, decade-long droughts in Africa, or ever more powerful hurricanes, natural disasters have our attention. Seeing a problem—like the February earthquake in Turkey and Syria —many will act to mitigate it. That is no longer the case.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 24, 2022

We all know that hunger is a complex and growing problem. Food insecurity threatens to worsen as households continue to face setbacks due to COVID-19, fears of a global recession, and the highest increase in inflation rates and food prices seen in the last 40 years. and supporting small farmers in remote areas globally.

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Forum One

MARCH 25, 2009

"(T)o provide a platform for understanding, visualizing and analyzing global energy systems that will help the world accelerate the transition to cheap clean energy for all." Global Energy Observatory ? s focused on an important problem ? s Los Alamos National Lab. See Thomas Friedman? We think it?s shovel-ready?

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Forum One

MARCH 25, 2009

"(T)o provide a platform for understanding, visualizing and analyzing global energy systems that will help the world accelerate the transition to cheap clean energy for all.". There has been a rising consensus that we need to transform our global energy system to reduce energy usage and to shift to less carbon intensive energy sources.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration assigns every vehicle a Vehicle Identification Number (or VIN). This is the problem that Foundation Center, GlobalGiving, GuideStar, and TechSoup have set out to solve by creating BRIDGE (Basic Registry of Identified Global Entities). Most of us take it for granted that the U.S.

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Kindful

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

National Forest Foundation. First Nations Development Institute. The Green Climate Fund is the world’s largest climate fund, mandated to support developing countries raise and realize their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC) ambitions towards low-emissions, climate-resilient pathways. National Forest Foundation.

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Twenty Hats

AUGUST 17, 2021

Look, I’m not trying to dissuade folks from seeking corporate employee volunteer groups, programs or projects. Because you might uncover red flags that suggest the engagement isn’t worth the investment of time and resources you’ll expend to bring the project to life. Why,” you ask? I suspect you’ve been there.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Although the challenges we’re facing as a global community continue to compound, our global community of change makers in the nonprofit and education sectors continues to address these challenges head-on to drive tangible and inspiring social impact.

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NTEN

AUGUST 1, 2011

may prove to be a key resource for solving some of our most pressing real-world problems," according to game designer Jane McGonigal in The Wall Street Journal. Gamers are already helping tackle real-world problems, just by playing games. Taking It Global: Millennium Development Goals match game. Why are games important?

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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. Betsy Beaumon I recently had the honor to speak at the first-ever Braille Summit , hosted on June 19-21, 2013 by the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (NLS) and Perkins School for the Blind.

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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. Read on to learn more about the project.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2014

Video games are big — bigger than Hollywood in terms of revenue, as a $66 billion global industry. This software includes assessment tools for evaluating students’ ability to problem solve, explain the relationships in complex systems, and comprehend informational texts and diagrams. You can register here.

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Forum One

JUNE 18, 2009

A couple of weeks ago a group of Seattle global health data experts met at the Seattle Biomedical Research Institute to continue a conversation we started earlier this year on global health data. OK, these are hard problems to solve. We'll continue to explore that key question in a couple of months when we meet again.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

During the panel, Ben Collier, CEO of The Farmlink Project , said it best. Rather than viewing this extra food as a burden or a “problem” to be solved, we should take the opportunity to focus on abundance.” The hunger crisis will not resolve itself without unprecedented collaboration on the local, national, and global level.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 2, 2022

At the same time they deal with problems ranging from food insecurity to natural disasters, they also need to ensure their members are engaged in local Boys & Girls Club offerings and achieve successful outcomes. Using insights from this data enabled Boys & Girls Clubs of America to scale their most successful programs. . “On

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 9, 2018

The Bookshare story Bookshare is a real example of the confluence of how all of these exciting developments were able to drive an innovative new way of addressing a social problem, and demonstrating the potential of what ebooks can do. For me, it started in late 1999 noticing a new icon on our home PC. And, the U.S.

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Gyrus

MARCH 19, 2024

Research from the National Training Laboratories Institute found that learners retain 75% of the information when they practice by doing and solving real-world problems. Online Learning Platforms (LMS Portals) According to a report by Global Market Insights, the e-learning market is projected to reach $1 trillion by 2032, up from $399.3

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Gyrus

MARCH 19, 2024

Research from the National Training Laboratories Institute found that learners retain 75% of the information when they practice by doing and solving real-world problems. Online Learning Platforms (LMS Portals) According to a report by Global Market Insights, the e-learning market is projected to reach $1 trillion by 2032, up from $399.3

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Gyrus

MARCH 19, 2024

Research from the National Training Laboratories Institute found that learners retain 75% of the information when they practice by doing and solving real-world problems. Online Learning Platforms (LMS Portals) According to a report by Global Market Insights, the e-learning market is projected to reach $1 trillion by 2032, up from $399.3

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Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

No other platform offers the same huge global reach for promoting awareness of important, yet suppressed, issues. In the video, people in dire, life-threatening situations, such as having no access to clean water, repeat common ‘first world problems’. Project Life Jacket. National Trust: #NTchallenge.

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Tech Soup

JULY 16, 2013

Through technology, data, and resource-sharing, Community Boost_r seeks to empower Balkan citizens to voice their opinions, demand solutions to everyday problems, and stay informed on accountability and transparency issues. The goal was to find the best web or mobile ideas for social projects in Kosovo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Serbia.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

This year marked the 10 th anniversary of the Social Good Summit , an annual conference hosted by the UN Foundation, Mashable, 92 nd Street Y and the United Nations Development Programme that celebrates advocacy and activism for social impact. Missed the Social Good Summit? You can watch it here.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 19, 2013

Majora realized that creating green projects and jobs empowers communities to see themselves in a different light, and that beautiful things happen in neighborhoods where people feel invested in their own economic and environmental well being.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2012

A huge thanks to the small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who attended the GeoFunders National Conference taking place this week in Seattle and published blog posts to share their reflections and thoughts. Aaron Dorfman, Executive Director, National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy. Casey Foundation.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 1, 2015

Technology CSR teams have pioneered programs globally to provide access to technology. Join @TechSoup , @plus_socialgood , the United Nations Foundation , and special guest CSR representatives for an important conversation on the evolving relationship between CSR teams and civil society organizations. More About Our Participants.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 12, 2012

The GeoFunders National Conference takes place from March 12-14th. GEO’s 2012 National Conference will offer a range of perspectives and new ideas for smarter grantmaking that leads to better results and present opportunities for participants to learn from the wisdom and experience of their peers. Stay tuned for a blog post about it.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 26, 2008

"[Y]ou don't necessarily have to solve a problem. I don't have to solve the problem. Perhaps they would gain a more mainstream constituency by acknowledging the overwhelming nature of the problem, and emphasizing in their messaging that you just have to do what you can. You just have to take the steps that are available to you.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 18, 2018

Today, I'm thrilled to announce the launch of a new global initiative, OFBYFOR ALL. This project is led by the MAH but global in scope. Many organizations think they have a "for" problem. We see OFBYFOR ALL as itself a project that must be of, by, and for the community of cultural and civic changemakers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

It was the last keynote of the day and it was a long day, so I improvised a movement exercise that involved some Samba movements to keep them engaged (see my post over at the Chronicle ). Now, I can’t wait for my international projects in 2013! Teens As Free Agents. ” Philantroteens. Now that’s a powerful idea.

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