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Announcing the Third Impact Lab on Climate Justice

Saleforce Nonprofit

Our first Impact Lab cohort designed Service Match , an open-source app designed for case managers who connect people experiencing homelessness to vital human services. Today, people of color and low-income communities are more likely to be impacted by natural disasters, live close to hazardous waste, and die of environmental causes.

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5 Ways to Gain The Upper Hand in Facebook’s Newsfeed

Connection Cafe

Some of your posts are seen by lots of people, and some of your posts aren’t. Facebook recently announced a test in Sri Lanka, Bolivia, Slovakia, Serbia, Guatemala, and Cambodia. The goal of this test is to understand if people prefer to have separate places for personal and public content. But no algorithm is perfect.

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Nancy Jo Craig’s Lifetime Achievement Award In Nonprofit Computer Refurbishment

Tech Soup

After she co-founded the Foundation For Friends of Nature in Bolivia, a million acres of natural habitat were put in to public trust. Thousands of people were pouring into Baton Rouge. She has just started sheltered work program to explore hiring developmentally disabled people in cooperation with ARC of Baton Rouge.

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See3 Celebrates Blog Action Day

See3

Bloggers, activists and friends gathered at our office to watch The New Silver , a film about a woman in Bolivia who is fighting to build a better life for her family with the help of microcredit. Working through our churches, campuses and other organizations, we engage more people in advocacy.

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Bringing Women a Global Voice: Jensine Larsen, World Pulse

Have Fun - Do Good

It took a long time actually, it took about five more years of holding it inside, and I bet a lot of people in the audience might have experienced that feeling - of just holding onto something that you think could be very transformational, but you are too afraid to take that step. It had hit India. Or, you have to grow to a demand.

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Women's Global Green Action Network: An Interview with Melinda Kramer

Have Fun - Do Good

The most important way for people to collaborate is face to face, so we have a number of ways that we convene women who are doing this work on various different levels. So our first exchange that we did with Global Exchange was called "Transformative Advocacy in Bolivia." We do it in a number of ways. It was really tremendous.

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Using Photography to Change the World: An Interview with Paola Gianturco

Have Fun - Do Good

"[T]hose of us who take pictures, even for our own personal trips, and share those pictures with friends, because we have that skill, also have an obligation to help people understand each other more completely. People write poems, and stand and recite them in public meetings. They have had arrested some very, very prominent people.