Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 25, 2012

The Guatemalan government human rights ombudsman invited the Benetech Human Rights Data Analysis Group (HRDAG) to analyze the contents of the estimated 80 million documents in the Guatemalan National Police Historical Archive or the Archivo Histórico de la Policía Nacional (AHPN).

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

Government has a rich legacy of social entrepreneurship. as well as the national governments of much of the developed world, robustly practices variants of high-capacity governmental social innovation today, such as the myriad programs countering the global Great Recession. As always, we welcome your comments, feedback and suggestions!

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Cloud 4 Good

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Western Michigan University (WMU) is a large, public research-intensive university that has been helping students reach their potential through a pursuit of purpose since 1903. Salesforce has helped WMU reimagine business processes associated with its IT service, advising, and data governance. Written by Blake Becker.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2022

You can’t swing an ethically sourced, locally produced, sustainably raised dead fish these days without hitting a set of Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) goals in a company’s board meetings or annual reports. External rating agencies may have their own tools, of course, but for internal use, it’s slim pickings.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

The same month, IBM delivered its first quantum computer on a university campus, at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York. NextSilicon plans to build on the adoption of the companys Maverick-1 chips by government agencies and academia. In a May publication in Science Advances , researchers from Quantinuum, the U.S.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 9, 2025

However, this is not a universal benchmark. Governance and Management factors: How does your Board feel about how much you should have in reserve vs spending on programs? It really does depend on the needs of your individual organization. Uneven cash flows: How much does your income and spending vary throughout the year?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 25, 2019

The government printed money like never before to pay for quantitative easing in an attempt to save the economy, devaluing everyone’s savings in the process. Bitcoin is a digital cash with no middle-men, no central authority, and truly peer-to-peer in a way that couldn’t be censored or controlled.

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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 has advised U.S. ‍Jay earned a B.A.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

And PIDC , a public-private investment group in Philadelphia, is redeveloping the centuries-old U.S. But the challenging road required to hit that target inspired the city government to seek out new kinds of partnerships to meet that bold pledge. Naval Shipyard with a $1 billion diversity pledge. to adopt a net zero goal back in 2019.

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NetWits

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

As a recent episode of RadioLab pointed out, there are more possibilities within the limited field of play of a chess game than there are atoms in the universe. The deeper we delve into a game, the better we understand the mechanics governing it. In other words, games make even the seemingly impossible feel possible.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

Unlike for-profit businesses, churches are not owned but rather are run by pastors, a church board, other governing bodies, and staff who are often a combination of paid employees and volunteers. Almost all organizations produce some sort of annual financial reporting, but it’s may not always be public information. At churches,?it?may

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Photo by: Visions of America/Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images. The Portland City Council has passed the toughest facial recognition ban in the US, blocking both public and private use of the technology. The ban passed unanimously, according to CNET , CNN , and OneZero.

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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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The Verge

OCTOBER 30, 2020

The report is the deepest dive yet into the real-life operations of the world’s leading autonomous vehicle company, which recently began offering rides in its fully driverless vehicles to the general public. The public road testing data covers Waymo’s self-driving operations in Phoenix from January 2019 through September 2020.

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TechCrunch

JULY 1, 2021

He serves on the advisory boards for entrepreneurship at Cornell University and the California Israel Chamber of Commerce. They impact hospitals, universities, government agencies, charitable organizations and commercial enterprises. Share on Twitter. Mark Settle. Contributor. More posts by this contributor.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 13, 2021

His identity and public persona were intertwined with his adopted city. Verafin would appear to be following suit: in the press release announcing the acquisition , Nasdaq committed to keeping the company’s headquarters in Newfoundland, investing in the local university and contributing to the development of the local ecosystem.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Technical design governs how systems interact, how data flows across platforms, and how individual components work together to deliver seamless, effective solutions. For nonprofits and government agencies, carefully crafted architecture is crucial to ensuring efficiency, scalability, security, and collaboration across systems.

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Byte Technology

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Businesses that fall under Title I, those that operate 20 or more weeks per year with at least 15 full-time employees, or Title III, those that fall under the category of “public accommodation,” are covered by the ADA. government may withhold state funding if the state doesn’t comply with Section 508. Dunkin Donuts.

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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. Through projects that integrated statistical analyses into multidisciplinary human rights work, we engaged in the public debate about human rights violations in Colombia.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 3, 2022

Certified public accountants (CPAs) and financial advisors have many wealthy clients. Help the organization by researching and compiling information on government grants that may be available. Community foundations sponsor many donor-advised funds (DAFs) which are like mini-foundations but they are not public.

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The Verge

JUNE 26, 2020

Photo by: Jeffrey Greenberg/Universal Images Group via Getty Images. Last week, Microsoft told The Verge that its “approach for re-opening Microsoft Store locations is measured and cautious, guided by monitoring global data, listening to public health and safety experts, and tracking local government restrictions.”

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Paytm has raised $1.104 billion in India’s largest-ever anchor round as part of its initial public offering, which is also shaping up to be the nation’s largest, as the poster child of the Indian startup ecosystem moves closer to listing in the public markets. to $28.85).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2013

Information found in Form 990s, like other important data collected by governments, could potentially be far more useful if it were not only public but ‘open’ data. Government and philanthropy leaders talk today about this groundbreaking research, and you can tweet @AspenInstitute to join the conversation. When the U.S.

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Forum One

JUNE 26, 2024

With new tools and research—including a forthcoming report from Forum One—nonprofits and government agencies can learn to employ strategies already used in the commercial sector to communicate their mission, goals, accomplishments, and brand more effectively. Language shapes brand perception and builds—or erodes—credibility and trust.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

And today, one of the early pioneers of the medium is announcing some funding as it tips into profitability on the back of a pivot to enterprise services, targeting businesses and governments that are looking to upskill workers to give them tech expertise more relevant to modern demands.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 6, 2021

Public policy and the nonprofit sector. Public policy at all levels of government has the ability to threaten the work of all nonprofits (National Council of Nonprofits, 2019). Notably, about 32% of nonprofit funding comes from government contracts and grants. Illustration by Yuxin Qin. A missed opportunity.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2022

in Finance and Investments at Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University with the goal of making valuations less problematic for entrepreneurs and investors. Daniel Faloppa. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Daniel Faloppa founded Equidam after completing his M.Sc. More posts by this contributor.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 20, 2012

Public Administration. Public funding for social programs is in a state of uncertainty due to our country's economic strain. Public funding for social programs is in a state of uncertainty due to our country's economic strain. Ahmad Naboulsi , Master's Student of. Welcome to Research Friday ! As part of a. Like this article?

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The Verge

MAY 14, 2020

Information about Tesla’s next-generation batteries has steadily trickled out over the last year or so thanks to the experts Musk hired and their public works, like patents, academic papers, and university presentations. The group has been funded by Tesla since 2016 , according to Reuters.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2021

These are some of the solutions that have been realized to counter the data-centered challenges that companies, NGOs and government institutions submit to Zindi. So AirQo now has a dashboard that allows the public to check air quality and air quality forecasts. Zindi is a database of data scientists across Africa.

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Candid

MARCH 28, 2022

The social sector is the domain of private action for public good. While nonprofits are perhaps most associated with the social sector, organizations within it can overlap with the spheres of business and government. Over the years, we’ve seen the lines between business, government, and the social sector blur.

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Engadget

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

In it, the company detailed a plan to reorganize its for-profit arm into a public benefit corporation (PBC). What is a public benefit corporation? To make things somewhat confusing, the state went with a different name: the public benefit corporation. In 2013 , Delaware enacted its own version of the law.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Here’s an example of ad targeting that’s actually good for public health: In a campaign encouraging people to wear masks, the Illinois state government has been focusing its digital ad dollars on the counties with the highest COVID risk. As an area’s risk increases, so too will its concentration of public health messaging.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

To date, Color has partnered with almost 1,000 organizations, including public health departments, employers, and universities to help people get faster access to healthcare services. Public health should happen where public life happens.”

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Corelight, which competes with the likes of FireEye and STG-owned McAfee , was founded in 2013 when Dr. Vern Paxson, a professor of computer science at the University of California, Berkeley, joined forces with Robin Sommer and Seth Hall to build a network visibility solution on top of an open source framework called Zeek (formerly Bro). .

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NTEN

APRIL 13, 2013

She is a well-known spokeswoman on behalf of public telecommunications and first amendment issues both locally and in the state capital. Lauren-Glenn is a founding member and serves on the board of Vermont Access Network (a trade group of 27 public access tv centers in Vermont). She is a graduate of the University of Vermont (B.A.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 9, 2025

As Elon Musks Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) continues to reshape the U.S. governments digital infrastructure scrapping websites, eliminating jobs, and dissolving entire departmentsarchivists have been racing to preserve a vanishing record of public history. The problem? Typically in my experience.

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