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A Kiva.org for Native American Entrepreneurs?

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Flipping through the Sunday New York Times earlier this month, I noticed a public service announcement (left) for the American Indian College Fund , with the slogan, "Think Indian: To think Indian is to save a plant that can save a people." According to the U.S. Whaddya think? Is there someone out there already doing it?

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Blog Day and One Web Day: Are You Participating?

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August 31, 2007 is the third annual Blog Day. I plan on participating in a small group session called "Gender and Blogging" facilitated by Sopheap Chak. (I s a law professor in New York City, a member of the ICANN board , and a fellow of the Center for Democracy & Technology , and the Yale Information Society Project.

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Second Life Education Programs in NY Times, Goes Open Source, and other tidbits

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Over the weekend, the New York Times ran an article about education programs in Second Life. I attended a lecture on the use of technology in the legal classroom last month in Second Life, facilitated by Rebecca Nesson. If you think that Seocond Life is just about buying virtual houses, be sure read this. I learned a lot.

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Observations from The Tech Virtual Museum Workshop, Month 1

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I've been working for The Tech on this project since November of 2007, and it has been an intense and exciting three months. For me, it means spending a lot more time facilitating idea generation and communicating with others than being an independent creative agent. The challenge is to find the way to pull those ideas out.

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What is Jumo? | Nonprofit Trends with Steve MacLaughlin | a.

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By November 2010, Jumo noted in a New York Times article that they’ve raised $3.5 “We saw on the Obama campaign you’ve got to combine content and technology to facilitate action. Where Jumo setup their offices in New York City’s SoHo neighborhood.

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Why Apple isn't the Nonprofit App Grinch | Nonprofit Trends with.

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Her thoughts on Apple’s ban on donations in iPhone apps recently appeared in The New York Times. This isn’t a new issue for her and she blogged back in June on this topic. They say “no&# to a lot of features and ideas so that they can say “yes&# to the right things.

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Got the Winter Blues? Giving May Cheer You Up

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Maya Angelou In December 2007, the New York Sun article, Why Giving Makes You Happy reported that: "According to the Social Capital Community Benchmark Survey, a survey of 30,000 American households, people who gave money to charity in 2000 were 43% more likely than non-givers to say they were 'very happy' about their lives.

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