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Nonprofit Technology News for May 2013: Free WiFi in Forbes Magazine and Braille Phones

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The People's Choice award winner is a Windows 8 app, YumvY , a cooking companion to help you prepare nutritious, healthy meals at home with the goal of addressing the obesity epidemic and related diseases like diabetes. Find the winning apps and the array of entries on the contest page. Of course mobile phone payments are not new.

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Sheroes You Should Know: Inspiring Stories for #WomensHistoryMonth

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Along with her work as an aquatic biologist, her book, Silent Spring , is largely credited for advancing the global environmental movement worldwide , inspiring the rise of ecofeminism and many feminist scientists. Wangari Maathai was a renowned environmental political activist in Kenya. Rosalind Franklin. Fund their work!

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Supporting Nonprofit Tech Educators Across the Globe

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Our friends at NTEN give out NTENny Awards every year to recognize people making a significant contribution to the nonprofit tech community; once again, close to half of the winners were affiliated with NetSquared and our Tech4Good meetups. Every month, our global network of community organizers host Tech4Good events in more than 70 cities.

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Nonprofit Technology News for March 2014

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We have another date for the end of the global digital divide! It is 2025 according to a new report by the nonprofit Pew Research Center and Elon University in North Carolina. The most interesting thing about the report is not the end-date estimate, but rather the several dire predictions on the results of universal Internet access.

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Nonprofit Technology News: The Demise of Facebook Causes and Cloud Storage for Charities

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There is also your new classification compliments of the BRIDGE Project, and the first universal software for micro finance, another free cloud service. Back in 2012, in order to better meet the needs of the global philanthropic sector, the Foundation Center began an extensive review of their Philanthropy Classification System.

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Leaders in Nonprofit Technology: Daniel Ben-Horin

Tech Soup

To kick off a series of profiles on leaders in nonprofit technology, we thought we’d start close to home by featuring our TechSoup Global founder, Daniel Ben-Horin. CompuMentor in due course turned into TechSoup when it became a national nonprofit, and TechSoup Global in 2008 after it had become an international organization.

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Nonprofit Technology News for April 2013

Tech Soup

The People's Choice award winner is a Windows 8 app , YumvY , a cooking companion to help you prepare nutritious, healthy meals at home with the goal of addressing the obesity epidemic and related diseases like diabetes. Find the winning apps and the array of entries on the contest page. Of course mobile phone payments are not new.

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