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Research Friday: Generosity Expanded: The Impact!

ASU Lodestar Center

In 2010, we gave nearly $300 billion in support of a wide variety of charitable causes—3.8 The Hudson Institute’s Center for Global Prosperity recently published its Annual Index of Global Philanthropy and Remittances for 2010 and reported “financial flows to the developing world from the United States increased notably in 2010 to $326.4

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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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Research Friday: Why Give to International Charities?

ASU Lodestar Center

Poverty in these countries is defined as falling short of food, not being able to send children to school, having limited or no access to safe drinking water, living in unstable houses and, perhaps worse, feeling powerless as the conflicting or corrupted governments don’t offer any means to get out of poverty 3. in 2010 alone.

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Cultivating Food Entrepreneurs: Interview with Patricia Loya of La Cocina

Have Fun - Do Good

You've got Mexican food from Mexico City, Mexican food from the Yucatan area, Japanese snack food. We're talking tiramisu cupcakes and piña colada cupcakes, and wow, what's going to be coming out in 2010 is great. There are plans and specific action items that are more specific to packaged foods. That's totally exciting.

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Nonprofit Technology News for April 2014 - The Green Issue

Tech Soup

This is a fresh change because ever since the economic downturn of 2008-09, Americans have invariably chosen economic growth over the environment, except for immediately after the BP oil spill in May 2010. for poor people without electricity in Mexico. The Big UN Report on Climate Change. The device did well on Kickstarter.

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Steve Bridger

I empathize with your mothballing Mexico and consider that a possible option of my own. Tuesday, January 12, 2010 at 7:04 am | Permalink Mark Jennings wrote: Excellent post, as @joannejacobs said it could be an answer to my post today on [link] and the one previous! There’s a lot in here that applies to the government [.]

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