Tech Soup

OCTOBER 30, 2012

Relief organizations and first-responders are working tirelessly to provide aid to those affected by Hurricane Sandy. Donate to Organizations Providing Relief. You can text SANDY to 80888 to make a $10 donation to be evenly distributed among the American Red Cross, AmeriCares, and the Salvation Army.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 6, 2010

Last Saturday, February 27th, Chile was hit with an 8.8 If you're looking for ways to help the earthquake's survivors, the sites and blogs below have posted lists of relief organizations working in Chile: Chile's 8.8 blog Check each relief organizations' individual site for ways to support their work.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2012

Ushahidi, an open source project originally deployed in Kenya to report post-election violence has since been downloaded and deployed for many other events and disasters, including Haiti, Chile, and Japan. They don’t necessarily think they need an organization in order to make an impact. Another great example is Epic Change.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 3, 2010

In some ways, the impact of the recent earthquake in Chile wasn't as immediately obvious as that of the earthquake in Haiti. After their hugely successful text messaging campaign for Haiti , the Red Cross has set up a similar campaign for Chile: simply text "CHILE" to 90999 to make a ten-dollar donation.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 22, 2011

The program was started in 1999 by Charles Brennick, who still runs the organization. To date, InterConnection has shipped over 20,000 computers and monitors to organizations around the world and properly recycled nearly 100,000 computers. I was going to list all the countries where they send computers, but it’s just too long.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2010

But as Daniel Ben-Horin said, “Our theory of change states that software products are necessary, but not sufficient for empowerment of social change organizations. We embed the product donation with a connection to the community and capacity building.&#.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 2, 2008

KR: The Global Fund for Women has an extraordinary commitment to keeping our doors open so that as many organizations working to advance women's human rights internationally can really gain access to resources that they so desperately need. Each year we receive over 3,500 proposals from women's organizations all around the world.

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