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What do mobile phones, baseball, and pediatric Diabetes have in common?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

" In a May 2008 post in Read/Write Web about Text to Give Campaigns : Mobile Giving is certainly a growing trend meant to capitalize on the ubiquity of cell phones and their heavy use by members of the younger generation. s Super Bowl launch of a United Way fund-raising campaign using mobile phone text messaging.

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Constructive Disruption: Advancing Social Change Through the Cloud

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Shortly after a Cyclone struck Myanmar in May 2008, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) created a web-based collaboration portal for aid workers in the region that enabled more than 100 relief organizations to communicate, analyze information and manage resources.

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Constructive Disruption: Advancing Social Change Through the Cloud

NTEN

Shortly after a Cyclone struck Myanmar in May 2008, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) created a web-based collaboration portal for aid workers in the region that enabled more than 100 relief organizations to communicate, analyze information and manage resources.

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Empowering Women Citizen Journalists: An Interview with Cristi Hegranes

Have Fun - Do Good

In January, Cristi was named one of the 21 Leaders of the 21st Century for 2008 by Women's eNews. Hopefully sometime in 2008 we will be able to establish that office. It is different in every place and oftentimes very laborious, but we are working on a potential program with The Open Society Institute in Myanmar.