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Favorite Do-Good Books of 2008

Have Fun - Do Good

Bill Somerville makes the search for innovative funding opportunities sound like an Indiana Jones adventure. It's the do-good adventure story of a former mountain climber who has spent almost 15 years building schools in remote mountain villages of northern Pakistan, Afghanistan, Kyrgyzstan and Mongolia. tools, it was about how Web 2.0

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How to Build Platforms that Our Movements Can Own

Non Profit Quarterly

Before long, you’ll have the development assistant searching Google for “technology grants.”. We also partner with a decentralized global network of over 600 fiscal sponsors to support more than more than 7,000 groups that collectively raise over $35 million a year.

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Nonprofit Technology News for September 2013

Tech Soup

Find my piece, “ Will Facebook’s Internet.org Bridge the Global Digital Divide? The service has 17 million users and is transforming the way wealth is distributed in poor countries, which now include Tanzania, India, and Afghanistan as well as Kenya. Smart Watches. Another post-PC device to buy and pay attention to.

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Social Media for Good and Evil, Strong and Weak Ties, Online/Offline,and Orgs and Networks

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Nancy Scola at TechPresident, in a post called, Malcolm Gladwell Goes Searching Twitter for 60’s Activism. How the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America is using the web to bring back together their band of brothers and sisters. The examples are there, too. The Obama campaign, for one. I will make two main points in this post.

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The Global Fund for Women: An Interview with Kavita Ramdas

Have Fun - Do Good

Kavita Ramdas, President and CEO, Global Fund for Women. Kavita Ramdas is the President and CEO of the nonprofit, the Global Fund for Women. I think it's worth it (: Kavita Ramdas: The Global Fund for Women is the largest independent, publicly supported grant-making foundation to advance women's human rights internationally.

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