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Connect2Compete: The Biggest Digital Inclusion Project in the U.S.

Tech Soup

Connect2Compete (C2C) is a project to supply low-cost broadband Internet, low-cost computers, and free training to as many as 100 million "offline" Americans. Department of Commerce (NTIA) stimulus grants in 2008 and 2009 and so it has had no government funding and has been struggling to successfully get off the ground.

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Nonprofits Live: Great Presentations on August 26

Tech Soup

Kivi Leroux Miller Kivi Leroux Miller ( @kivilm ) is president of Nonprofit Marketing Guide.com and author of "The Nonprofit Marketing Guide: High-Impact, Low-Cost Ways to Build Support for Your Good Cause" (Jossey-Bass, 2010). She enjoys writing, volunteering, hiking, vegetarian cooking, and teaching her kids how to bake.

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Preparing for the Next Disaster: The Future of #crisisdata

NTEN

On January 12, 2010, I didn't personally experience the major earthquake that hit Haiti, but I was forever changed by it. But I wasn't prepared for the type of incoming information I saw in the weeks after January 12, 2010. . By Wendy Harman, Social Media Director, American Red Cross. social tools + people = lives saved. .

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Using Smartphones and Portable Wi-Fi Hotspots to Tell Your Story

Tech Soup

The Mobile Beacon 4G coverage area is in major US cities in 35 states and also Washington DC. People's Emergency Center (PEC) in Philadelphia has been using Mobile Beacon quite a bit under a government-funded project that's part of the Broadband Technology Opportunities Program. People's Emergency Center Wi-Fi Hotspots.

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Cause Camp 2017 Speaker Lineup Announcement

NonProfit Hub

Beth has over 35 years working in the nonprofit sector in capacity building and has facilitated trainings for nonprofits on every continent in the world (except Antarctica). Through training, coaching and consulting, Kivi helps nonprofit communications professionals both learn their jobs and love their jobs.

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Nonprofits Live: Great Presentations on August 26

Tech Soup

Kivi Leroux Miller Kivi Leroux Miller ( @kivilm ) is president of Nonprofit Marketing Guide.com and author of "The Nonprofit Marketing Guide: High-Impact, Low-Cost Ways to Build Support for Your Good Cause" (Jossey-Bass, 2010). She enjoys writing, volunteering, hiking, vegetarian cooking, and teaching her kids how to bake.

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Road Trip! Fundraising, Advocacy, Community Building, Storytelling and Recruitment on the Road.

Care2

In September 2010 Bill McKibben, the founder of 350.org, The road trippers also made stops for advocacy events in Boston and New York before concluding in Washington DC. Along the way Boaz met with inventors, entrepreneurs and government leaders and told the story of alternative, sustainable transportation in an interesting way.