Articles Tagged With 'information+technology'
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| Spring 2004 | Nonprofits • Nonprofit Management • Social Entrepreneurship • Nonprofit Organizations |
The Humanitarian Divide [Free!]
A Cambodian 'nonprofit company' peddles digitization -- with a social edge. |
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| Fall 2004 | Social Innovations • Cause Marketing • Nonprofits • Nonprofit Management |
Nonprofits and the Net
Tight budgets and a lack of technical know-how are keeping nonprofits off the web. |
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| Summer 2005 | Social Innovations • Socially Responsible Investing • Philanthropy • Foundations • Nonprofits • Social Return on Investment | The Ratings Game [Free!] Evaluating the three groups that rate the charities. | |
| Winter 2005 | Nonprofits • Social Entrepreneurship • Nonprofit Organizations • Government • Social Policy • Global Issues • Environment | Logging in for the Environment Environmental lawyers around the world join forces via E-LAW. | |
| Spring 2006 | Nonprofits • Nonprofit Management | Missed Signals Why e-mail messages are so often misunderstood. | |
| Summer 2006 | Nonprofits • Nonprofit Management | The Web Is Your Lever How extreme Internet outsourcing can free nonprofits to move the world. | |
| Fall 2006 | Social Innovations • Socially Responsible Investing • Nonprofits • Nonprofit Management • Social Return on Investment • Business • Social Enterprises | Drowning in Data [Free!] In the frenzy over accountability, funders, donors, and the general public are calling for more program evaluation. But few understand evaluation well enough to conduct or bankroll high-quality studies. Without sufficient knowledge or funding, nonprofits are often collecting heaps of dubious data, at great cost to themselves and ultimately to the people they serve. | |
| Winter 2007 | Nonprofits • Nonprofit Management | Designing Trust Spiffy Web sites aren’t just easy on the eyes; they’re also easier to believe and learn from. | |
| Winter 2007 | Government • Government Programs |
Government by Numbers
How CitiStat’s hard data and straight talk saved Baltimore. |
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| Spring 2007 | Nonprofits • Nonprofit Management | A Pyramid Scheme for Technology How to identify your IT needs and get money for them. | |
| Fall 2008 | Social Innovations • Nonprofits • Social Entrepreneurship • Government • Government Programs • Business • Socially Responsible Business • Social Enterprises • Global Issues • Poverty • Health | Dialing for Development The world's neediest people are using mobile phones in ways that were never intended, and with great success. With wireless technologies, Indian farmers are finding out the latest crop prices, Nigerian youth are learning how to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS, and Peruvian citizens are reporting criminal activity in their neighborhoods. Yet dialing into these powerful tools is not always straightforward. The author explains how to make the wireless revolution ring in economic growth and prosperity for people living at the bottom of the pyramid. | |
| Winter 2009 | Social Innovations • Socially Responsible Investing • Nonprofits • Social Return on Investment • Business • Social Enterprises | What’s Next: Let’s Share A new evaluation tool allows donors and investors to track their investments and compare their data to those of organizations doing similar work. | |
| Winter 2009 | Social Innovations • Microfinance • Philanthropy • Online Giving • Global Issues • Poverty | What’s Next: Let’s Play Microloan Kids win beads and help give loans to entrepreneurs in developing countries. | |
| Winter 2009 | Nonprofits • Nonprofit Management • Nonprofit Organizations • Global Issues • Poverty • Health • Environment |
Q & A: William Brindley [Free!]
William Brindley spent most of his career keeping financial institutions at the leading edge of technology. Now, as CEO of the nonprofit consortium NetHope, he is using those same skills to help nonprofits do the same. NetHope now has 25 member organizations, among them Save the Children, Mercy Corps, Oxfam, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, and Catholic Relief Services. |
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| Spring 2009 | Nonprofits • Nonprofit Organizations • Global Issues • Education • Poverty | What’s Next: Turn on the TV, Class Poor children can watch rich children's better school classes on TV. | |
| Spring 2009 | Philanthropy • Online Giving | Research: Why No Dimes Online Many philanthropists refrain from online giving. | |
| Spring 2009 | Government • Business • Socially Responsible Business • Global Issues • Civil Society | What’s Next: Polling Power A new Web site shows voters who like-minded peers, organizations, and opinion leaders support. | |
| Spring 2009 | Business • Social Enterprises • Global Issues • Health | What’s Next: Texting It In A free, open-source software package lets health care workers in developing countries better fight disease. | |
| Spring 2009 | Business • Socially Responsible Business | What’s Next: The Pepsi Spirit—of Giving Back Pepsi's free CSR: enrolling more than 27,000 of its U.S. employees in the Wireless AMBER Alert Program. | |
| Spring 2009 | Social Innovations • Cause Marketing • Nonprofits • Nonprofit Organizations • Government • Global Issues • Civil Society | Millennials MoveOn [Free!] To propel young folks to the polls, a political organization mixed Web 2.0 tools with social science savvy. | |
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