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

Saleforce Nonprofit

Each of these groups provided insights into the challenge, determined a focus area where technology can help, and developed a solution. In recent years, we have seen the growth of technology interventions that help small-scale farmers access life-saving information to protect their livelihoods and their families.

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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. But how does it help you move closer to your goal?

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

Forum One

By civic infrastructure we mean online services which: -help people and government understand and address important social problems; -will be a platform to support or catalyze the innovative work of others to address these problems; -will provide benefits very broadly ? education in Africa? , refugee resettlement in sub Saharan Africa?,

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Haiti Earthquake: Orphans, Crisis Mapping, and Tech Volunteers

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

He's passionate about helping children and obsessed with leveraging the power of "good ideas for good causes.". I'm going back to Haiti in the next few days and need help to give hands-on help to our kids and the townspeople. You can help. I haven't been able to sleep. Here's more about their haiti platform.

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A Few of Your Favorite Things (Best of "Things We Like" 2010)

NTEN

You turn to NTEN Connect for the information that will help you do your job better -- the articles in this very issue prove it -- but also for those brief sanity breaks that let you keep pushing ahead toward realizing your vision of a better world. Maybe it's true what Fast Company wrote, that " Hard Work's Overrated, Maybe Detrimental ".

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A Few of Your Favorite Things (Best of "Things We Like" 2010)

NTEN

You turn to NTEN Connect for the information that will help you do your job better -- the articles in this very issue prove it -- but also for those brief sanity breaks that let you keep pushing ahead toward realizing your vision of a better world. Maybe it's true what Fast Company wrote, that " Hard Work's Overrated, Maybe Detrimental ".

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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. It can justify the work that your organization is doing, help others understand why it is critical, and offer exciting new ways to motivate others to help solve the problems your organization is working on. And for good reason.

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