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Nedspace Co-Working Space in Portland, Oregan will send three Cambodians to college if.

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I have used social media to help raise the money for her tuition through the Sharing Foundation in 2007 and 2008. NedSpace is located at 920 SW Third (between Taylor & Salmon) Portland, Oregon. My motivation was a simple act of reciprocity (not what you might read in some of these comments ).

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Advancing Your Mission With GIS Tools

NTEN

In 2008, post-election violence erupted in Kenya. They have participated in planning and emergency responses from remote Pacific islands to downtown Portland, Oregon. The image below is a screenshot from a disaster preparedness exercise in Portland, Oregon. Collecting and Disseminating Information - Ushahidi.

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Advancing Your Mission With GIS Tools

NTEN

In 2008, post-election violence erupted in Kenya. They have participated in planning and emergency responses from remote Pacific islands to downtown Portland, Oregon. The image below is a screenshot from a disaster preparedness exercise in Portland, Oregon. Collecting and Disseminating Information - Ushahidi.

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How Can Nonprofit Leaders Create Effective Community Change?

ASU Lodestar Center

Aid programs may be necessary to benefit the individuals currently in poverty, but it does not provide a lasting solution (Dees, 2008). Scharmer (2008) accuses these failures to the blind “deeper dimension of leadership and transformational change” (Scharmer, 2008). The Nonprofit Association of Oregon. References.

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Philanthropy Cloud Adds New Volunteer Management Capabilities for National Volunteer Week

Saleforce Nonprofit

In 2008, the Points of Light Foundation and the Salesforce Foundation conceived HandsOn Connect — a native Salesforce application designed specifically to make volunteering easier for employees and nonprofits — in a series of whiteboard sessions in San Francisco. By: Melissa Hill-Dees, Founding Partner of HandsOn Connect Cloud Solutions.

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Cloud Computing for Small Nonprofits: Lessons Learned from 5 Years in the Cloud

NTEN

Nancy Roach, a cancer survivor and vocal advocate living in Oregon pulled a group of us together to build a national organization focused solely on change and the needs of the colorectal cancer patient. When we first rolled out Google Apps in early 2008 I had visions of a Microsoft Word burning party as everyone embraced Google Docs.

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Cloud Computing for Small Nonprofits: Lessons Learned from 5 Years in the Cloud

NTEN

Nancy Roach, a cancer survivor and vocal advocate living in Oregon pulled a group of us together to build a national organization focused solely on change and the needs of the colorectal cancer patient. When we first rolled out Google Apps in early 2008 I had visions of a Microsoft Word burning party as everyone embraced Google Docs.

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