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Announcing Our Second Impact Labs Cohort on Zero Hunger: Supporting Small-Scale Farmers Globally

Saleforce Nonprofit

Impact Labs convenes community experts, or fellows, across sectors to co-create new technology solutions to support specific issue areas, including homelessness , equity in education , and climate justice. Each of these groups provided insights into the challenge, determined a focus area where technology can help, and developed a solution.

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Shovel-ready Online Civic Projects #1: Global Development Commons

Forum One

re in the information age and the rapid and flexible flow of information is critical to the business of government, to commerce, to education, and to individual development. education in Africa? , refugee resettlement in sub Saharan Africa?, How best to run HIV/AIDS prevention education for at-risk populations in Africa?

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Guest Post on Care2 Frogloop: Designing Campaigns for Impact

Amy Sample Ward

For example , if you are an organization working on public education policy changes, you probably recognize teachers as a core demographic to your work – both in supporting the changes you propose as well as helping identify the changes that can and should be made. The next example, is 350.org

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Data and Storytelling: 6 Ways to Use Data to Move Your Mission

NTEN

These days everyone is releasing it, visualizing it, aggregating it, and mashing it up. Charity Water , an organization that raises money to build wells in Africa has learned the lesson. By Kurt Voelker, CTO, Forum One Data is the new black. And for good reason. Let's look at another example of this in practice.

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Haiti Earthquake: Orphans, Crisis Mapping, and Tech Volunteers

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Cine Institute , an organization that provides Haitian youth with film education, is located a block from an orphanage built by Luke Montgomery, co-founder of WeCanBuildanOrphanage.com , an interactive charity building a home, clinic and school for AIDS orphans in Haiti. An Orphanage Destroyed, Children Still Alive.

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Advancing Your Mission With GIS Tools

NTEN

monitor supply levels at pharmacies throughout Africa. Users don't just see aggregate statistics on a map, they get personalized recommendations with map features customized to the amenities they have chosen. Often called Africa's largest slum, it is home to nearly a million people. monitor election results in Mexico and India.

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Data and Storytelling: 6 Ways to Use Data to Move Your Mission

Forum One

These days everyone is releasing it, visualizing it, aggregating it, and mashing it up. Charity Water , an organization that raises money to build wells in Africa has learned the lesson. Data is the new black. And for good reason. Data is so much more than a stack of numbers or a server filled with client outputs. Reveal Change.

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