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Blockchain for Impact: Blockchain Revolution Global Event Wrap-Up

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(For background on blockchain and why it matters for nonprofits and NGOs, this Thrive Global article, Blockchain Positive Impact: Social Enterprise and Nonprofits , provides use cases and a brief technology overview.). The beautiful, artistic streets of downtown Toronto, Canada. Her fabulous blockchain explainer video is below.).

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Interview with My Dad, Tom Aageson, Co-Founder, Global Center for Cultural Entrepreneurship

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Since moving to Santa Fe, he has developed New Mexico Creates , an economic development initiative that creates market links for New Mexico artists and artisans. Before moving to Santa Fe, he was the Director of Aid to Artisans , an international artisan enterprise development NGO. A dedicated maritime gallery did not exist before.

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Solutionary Women: Rebecca Kalin

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We train school and community members about environmental health, and post durable, no-idling street signs that not only help reduce idling–the #1 source of urban pollution–but also help build neighborhood cohesiveness by signaling that asthma is a community concern. We started in our first school in the spring of 2002.

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REALLY Hot Women

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While surfing for some more BlogHers to add to the Nonprofit and NGO BlogHer blogroll, I came across the REAL hot 100: See How Hot Smart Can Be. One of the projects she helped create was an investigation of the impact of images of women in popular music videos on young women and young men.

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Cambodia Bloggers: Five Years Later – Part 2

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I started contributing to Global Voices where I did blogging roundups from Cambodia. In 2007, I raised money to help sponsor the first Cambodian Bloggers conference and raised a lot of the money via Twitter as Shel Israel noted in his book, Twitterville.

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Solutionary Women: Brande Jackson

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Last month I wrote a short post for Blogher, Roadies for a Cause , about a nonprofit called Lokahi Outreach , that partners with organizations like the ONE campaign and Oxfam to help them do grassroots campaigning on the road. I mean, we work on campaigns that are helping to fight poverty, save the environment and promote voting.

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Women's Earth Alliance: Co-Directors Melinda Kramer and Amira Diamond

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How do they help to address some of the challenges and problems that you just spoke about? The next area, where Women's Earth Alliance works, is in India , where we learned from our colleagues on the ground that support around creating sustainable agriculture would be the best thing we could do to help. We have so much.