Remove Government Remove Interview Remove National
article thumbnail

Beyond the Rainbow—Build a Diverse Board of Independent Thinkers

.orgSource

But good governance shouldn’t be comfortable. From the National Bureau of Economic Research—companies with more diverse workforces are more likely to innovate and bring new products to market. They are striving to make their leaders look more like their members and better represent the overall demographics of a changing nation.

Build 322
article thumbnail

A Nonprofit Partnership: How One Board Member Connected Two Organizations and Boosted Both

Blue Avocado

Board members are a vital resource for nonprofits: In addition to their responsibility for governance, they each bring unique perspectives and experiences to enrich the growth of nonprofit organizations and partnerships. By creative, I mean it’s not just in Minnesota, it is national. Mary’s Pence is creative in funding ESPERA.

professionals

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Be Prepared to Deliver Digital Value

.orgSource

We interviewed association executives who were early adopters of both digital thinking and systems. The organization is active in government advocacy and technical standards, conducts national and regional educational networking conferences, and produces the Furnaces North America business exposition every other year.

Digital 221
article thumbnail

Interview with Bryan Stevenson: On Juneteenth and Justice

Saleforce Nonprofit

In this interview, Stevenson shares his thoughts on how we seek to reconcile as a nation, how he personally handled prejudice and racism, his path to his true calling, and how he finds the strength everyday to keep on fighting. When we built our National Memorial to the victims of lynching, we couldn’t do that.

Interview 119
article thumbnail

The Craig Newmark Beneblog Interview

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Our government's public servants have been released to their jobs better. White House blogs, open government initiatives. A: For me specifically, government and social media (and not just Washington), social media, the Sunlight Foundation ( on government accountability and transparency, data.gov, etc.) A: Nerds can help.

Interview 100
article thumbnail

Tim Wu, the ‘father of net neutrality,’ is joining the Biden administration

The Verge

Tim Wu — the Columbia law professor who coined the term “net neutrality” — is joining the Biden administration , where he’ll be working on technology and competition policy at the National Economic Council. Happy to say I'm joining the Biden White House to work on Technology and Competition Policy at the National Economic Council.

Voice 128
article thumbnail

Smile Identity expands African footprint with acquisition of Appruve to strengthen ID verification services

TechCrunch

On the other hand, Appruve, which provides an API that verifies user identity, fraud detection and digital documentation, primarily focuses on new datasets that enable or complement traditional government data such as international passports and national IDs. We want to add that depth in more markets, and Appruve gives some of that.”

Service 145