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Hosting Harkin at the Hub

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Now that the Bureau of Labor Statistics reports regularly on the employment situation for people with disabilities, there is strong evidence that it has gotten disproportionately worse for workers with disabilities since 2009. million to 6 million by 2015. An amazing conversation ensued, in which Senator Harkin was highly engaged.

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Human Rights Trainings in Nigeria

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Martus is used around the world by human rights workers, attorneys, journalists, government officials and others who need to protect their data and the people they work with. I flew into Abuja from Kinshasa, and my colleague Rahwa Tareke joined me from San Francisco.

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Using Technology to Build a More Accountable Bosnia and Herzegovina

Tech Soup

When I met Darko Brkan at the TechSoup headquarters in San Francisco, he humbly and passionately described Dosta! In the end, the government lost the election, and the regional prime minister was forced by his party to resign from his position. In 2009 Dosta! ("Why not?"), and Zašto ne?

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Cause Camp 2017 Speaker Lineup Announcement

NonProfit Hub

Named one of the most influential women in technology by Fast Company and one of BusinessWeek’s “Voices of Innovation for Social Media,” Beth was Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation 2009-2013. And creative problem solving (from puzzles and caption contests to improve and every episode of MacGyver ever).

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Nurturing Inner City Entrepreneurs: Jose Corona of Inner City Advisors

Have Fun - Do Good

Prior to Inner City Advisors, Jose served as the development director for five years at the Mission Economic Development Agency (MEDA), a San Francisco-based nonprofit organization that provides microenterprise business technical assistance and neighborhood planning services to small businesses. It's a big challenge.

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The Mobile Present, the Mobile Future: Health Information

NTEN

" Nonprofits and government agencies are using this ubiquitous device for health purposes including monitoring, education, and instant alerts and communication. One of their first programs, SEXINFO, began in response to rising gonorrhea rates among African Americans in San Francisco. Mobile Monitoring.

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Technology for Whom? Owning Our Platforms

Non Profit Quarterly

Back in 1995, in the early days of the internet, a San Francisco innovator named Craig Newmark started a small email distribution list for friends, highlighting local events across the Bay Area. Consider, for example, the case of Instacart, an on-demand grocery delivery platform founded in San Francisco in 2012.

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