Amp Impact Takes Home Demo Jam Trophy
Watch Amp Impact’s winning demo (begins 1:55) in the Program Management Demo Jam featuring Salesforce apps that help you manage and deliver programs and track your impact. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yltvT9cUZA
Takeaways from MERL Tech London
In March, Zak Kaufman and Aditi Patel attended the second annual MERL Tech London conference to connect with leading thinkers and innovators in the technology for monitoring and evaluation space. In addition to running an Amp Impact demo session, we joined forces with Joanne Trotter of the Aga Khan Foundation as well as Eric Barela […]
Vera to Present at MERL Tech DC 2017
Vera Solutions will be attending the 2017 MERL Tech Conference taking place September 7-8 in Washington, D.C. This annual event provides an opportunity for attendees – ranging from funders and program implementers to technology providers and other development practitioners – to showcase their work and discuss the future of technology tools for monitoring, evaluation, research, […]
ICT4D 2017: Technology’s Only as Powerful as It’s Used
This is the second in a series of posts discussing Vera’s learnings and key takeaways from ICT4D 2017. Read the first post here. Vera recently returned from ICT4D 2017, which was a whirlwind of conversations about how technology can better serve organizations working in international development. Over the course of the conference, there was a […]
ICT4D 2017: Harnessing the Power of Data for the SDGs
This is the first in a series of posts discussing Vera’s learnings and key takeaways from ICT4D 2017. Vera recently attended the ICT4D Conference in Hyderabad, India, where more than 1000 attendees from the technology, development, academia, and funder communities convened under one central theme: Harnessing the Power of Data for the Sustainable Development Goals. […]
Connecting the Dots: Highlights from 17NTC
Ali Blajda is a Consultant in Vera’s Washington D.C. office. She brings more than five years of experience in global health and international development to the team. Ali holds a BA in International Affairs from George Washington University and an MS in Health Policy from the Harvard Chan School of Public Health. From March 23-25, […]
Recapping Dreamforce 2016
Last month, Vera attended Salesforce’s 170,000-attendee-strong annual user meeting, Dreamforce. Held in San Francisco each year, Dreamforce attracts more than 8,000 non-profits, making it the world’s largest non-profit technology conference. While there were countless highlights, our favorite part of this event was reconnecting with our clients and seeing so many familiar faces proudly presenting the […]
Vera Solutions presents at Salesforce.org’s first Connected NonProfit Conference
At Vera, we’re excited by tech’s potential to make a real difference in the way the social sector operates. With improved access to affordable, reliable cloud-based technologies, social impact organizations are working with more efficiency, efficacy, and transparency. Vera is proud to be a catalyst of this ‘paper to the cloud’ movement in the social sector. […]
MERL Tech 2016: Whether Big Data or Small Data, it Needs to be Good Data
Vera’s Allison Blajda and Alan Guedes recently attended the 2016 MERL Tech conference in Washington, DC. The event provided an opportunity for attendees – ranging from funders and program implementers to technology providers and other development practitioners – to showcase their work and discuss the future of technology tools for monitoring, evaluation, research, and learning. […]
UN General Assembly, Social Good Summit Highlight Tech-Driven Development
Alyssa Heinze is a Marketing & Communications Intern at Vera Solutions. A junior at Dartmouth College, Alyssa studies Government and Asian and Middle Eastern Studies. Prior to her work at Vera, she studied abroad at Hyderabad Central University and interned for a women’s empowerment NGO in Kathmandu, Nepal. This year’s Social Good Summit focused on […]