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Is climate change action the new face of natural disaster relief?

Candid

Whether it’s global heatwaves, flooding in Pakistan, Canadian wildfires that block out the sun, decade-long droughts in Africa, or ever more powerful hurricanes, natural disasters have our attention.

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Money talks: Why tuning into the Giving Pledge matters 

Candid

Influential Pledgers’ philanthropic approaches The Giving Pledge was formed in 2010 by Bill Gates, Melinda French Gates, and Warren Buffett to encourage the super-rich to publicly elevate and accelerate their giving. In that sense, they’re just like the rest of us. They are not the only pledgers with the capacity to set public priorities.

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The Link Between ICT and Science and Technology in Africa: Implications for Civil Society Organisations

Tech Soup

Last week, several TechSoup Global staffers participated in Foundation Week in Brussels. That is one of the conclusions I drew from the Seminar on Science and technology partnerships with Africa: Opportunities for European Foundations. This post comes from GuideStar International communications manager Keisha Taylor.

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My remarks just made at WIPO today

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

with print disabilities, with more than 70,000 copyrighted works in our library, the majority of which have been created under the US copyright exception by volunteers, mainly people with disabilities themselves, helping each other. • We now have global permissions for around 8,000 copyrighted books out of our 70,000. •

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Raise Your Hand for Girls on October 11, 2012

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Globally, 1 in 3 girls around the world is denied an education by the daily realities of poverty, violence and discrimination. I raised money through my blog and later on Twitter to help send her to college from 2006-2010 through the Sharing Foundation’s program. She graduated from college and is married.

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Research Friday: The gift

ASU Lodestar Center

Note: This article will focus on international development from my perspective working in an African country, although the questions raised are pertinent to any “developed” country or continent’s relationship to a “developing” region. In 2010, I was a fresh young Ally in ASU’s Lodestar Center Public Allies program.

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TechSoup Taiwan Talks Gaming for Social Good at Net Tuesday Event

Tech Soup

According to a 2010 statistic, people around the world spend three billion hours a week playing video games. What if that time could be spent fighting rainforest destruction and global warming or supporting other environmental and social causes? TechSoup Taiwan recently held a Net Tuesday event. that focused on gaming for social good.

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