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Benetech Analyzes Key Bangladeshi Human Rights Data

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

In my recent blog postings, I documented personal impressions during my recent trip to Bangladesh. This post takes a look at how Benetech is helping to document human rights abuses in that country. Silva's analysis presented in the report, " Judge, Jury, and Death: Torture and Executions by Bangladesh's Elite Security Force."

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Three Fabulous Conversations

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Mousa and I talked about his dream of helping centers for blind people in Iraq get the tech equipment they need. It’s great to see someone who is not yet 20 with many creative ideas about how to help, and the drive to make it happen. They just need software to help cities understand the size of their challenges around these issues.

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Blog Action Day: Can One Person Make A Difference? Challenging Poverty With Social Media

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

   His goal was to inspire other people, just like him, to be the generation that helps end extreme poverty.  Simple and small changes in our global, political, and personal priorities can make a huge difference. ???We   He is doing this on his own - and not as a nonprofit organization, fundraiser, or charity.  

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How Nonprofits Can Navigate the New Media Landscape

NTEN

There are ample opportunities for nonprofits to help inform, shape, and create stories for the media. Now, with so many audiences receiving information from different places, newspapers need to think about how they light other people’s candles, and how to get to illumination.” Fast forward to 2014, and this prediction still holds true.

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MCON13 Live Blog: Millennial Service (Paul Schmitz, Soma and Rachael Chong, Catchafire)

NTEN

1 Throughout the day, we''ll be live blogging sessions from MCON13 , a virtual conference to help leaders engage the Millennial generation. When you have a volunteer experience that makes you question your life or see that someone in Bangladesh is the same as you, it makes you more passionate to give back for the rest of your life.

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President's Update

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The big question everybody asks me is what I'm going to do differently. For example, I'm planning on going to India and Bangladesh next month for the first time, and to Uganda and Sudan next year. we need help. Conclusion The world needs a lot more help than Benetech or I can provide.

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Nine Digital Marketing Lessons Nonprofits Can Learn from charity: water

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

If you are interested in online fundraising but don’t have the resources to build a custom platform for donations like charity: water, there are applications that help nonprofits get started with online fundraising quickly, including Salsa and Network for Good. But charity: water didn’t decide on this value proposition haphazardly.

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