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Weekly update from PND

Candid

Bloomberg Philanthropies has announced a $31 million investment in the Partnership for Healthy Cities and the addition of six cities to the initiative to create safer and healthier urban environments: Bucharest, Romania; Cairo, Egypt; Córdoba, Argentina; Dublin, Ireland; Greater Manchester, United Kingdom; and Warsaw, Poland.

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A First Look at Jumo

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Here’s the article from today’s New York Times. By November 2010, Jumo noted in a New York Times article that they’ve raised $3.5 Jumo setup their offices in New York City’s SoHo neighborhood. Argentina, France, India, or Kenya?&#

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An Interview with Lorene Straka, Joanna Eng, and Mari Velasco from the Idealist

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I recently tracked down several women who work for the organization in their New York and Buenos Aires offices, including Lorene Straka , Joanna Eng , and Mari Velasco for an interview. met the founder, Ami Dar, on a subway two weeks after moving to New York in 1999. Why did you decide to intern for the idealist?

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What is Jumo? | Nonprofit Trends with Steve MacLaughlin | a.

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By November 2010, Jumo noted in a New York Times article that they’ve raised $3.5 Where Jumo setup their offices in New York City’s SoHo neighborhood. Argentina, France, India, or Kenya?&# Who Chris Hughes brought in Kirsten Titus as Managing director of Jumo.

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The Great Good Place Book Discussion Part 6: Museum 2.5 by Elaine Heumann Gurian

Museum 2.0

New York, Random House. [ii] New York: Cooper-Hewitt Museum. iii] “One Meter Square” in Sacco, Graciella, M2 , Museo Castagnino + MACRO, Rosario, Argentina, 2009. [iv] [i] Jacobs, J. The death and life of great American cities. iv] Gurian, E.

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Data Digest: Global Open Data Initiative, OpenData Latinoamérica, Big Data for Disaster Response

Tech Soup

A list of wrong assumptions about the use of big data for humanitarian relief is pointed out and you can have a look at some of the big data presentations at the recent Personal Democracy Forum held in New York. Open Data Applied. Announcing the Global Open Data Initiative (GODI).

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The Global Fund for Women: An Interview with Kavita Ramdas

Have Fun - Do Good

And yes, it may mean that a group in Argentina, that is certainly deserving by our basic standards, may not get a grant this year, so that we can support very worthwhile and important requests from a group that has even less access to resources in Haiti.

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