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Announcing Our Second Impact Labs Cohort on Zero Hunger: Supporting Small-Scale Farmers Globally

Saleforce Nonprofit

Hunger is a global issue that affects everyone, everywhere. An estimated 811 million people are hungry globally. Supporting them is not only essential to the global community’s food supply, but also to the day-to-day well-being of the communities in which they work and live. Why Small-Scale Farmers? Dun-Ying Vicki Yu.

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Citizen Tech: Social Media in Disaster Response

Amy Sample Ward

The first example is Ushahidi – originally designed as a tool for mapping reports of violence in Kenya after the post-election unrest in 2008. At this point, social media is changing and growing as much as our environment both physically and politically – the options are so numerous they can be a real cost.

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Leaders in Nonprofit Technology: Daniel Ben-Horin

Tech Soup

To kick off a series of profiles on leaders in nonprofit technology, we thought we’d start close to home by featuring our TechSoup Global founder, Daniel Ben-Horin. CompuMentor in due course turned into TechSoup when it became a national nonprofit, and TechSoup Global in 2008 after it had become an international organization.

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Tools to End Poverty: An Interview with Martin Fisher of KickStart

Have Fun - Do Good

What follows is an edited transcript of our conversation on July 2, 2008. Martin Fisher: The problem we're trying to solve is global poverty. As long as we have massive global poverty, we really can't solve any of our other biggest problems because if you have people who are starving, they're going to do anything to stay alive.

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The Global Fund for Women: An Interview with Kavita Ramdas

Have Fun - Do Good

Kavita Ramdas, President and CEO, Global Fund for Women. Kavita Ramdas is the President and CEO of the nonprofit, the Global Fund for Women. I think it's worth it (: Kavita Ramdas: The Global Fund for Women is the largest independent, publicly supported grant-making foundation to advance women's human rights internationally.

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