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Announcing Our Second Impact Labs Cohort on Zero Hunger: Supporting Small-Scale Farmers Globally

Saleforce Nonprofit

But as we know, getting to Zero Hunger will take collaboration from all regions, with multiple approaches to address the contributing factors. Farmazonzilla: A platform for farmers, cooperatives, and traders that aggregates, connects, and recommends farming services and products to simplify finding facilities, tools, training, and transports.

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NetSquared Events to Cure Your Social Media Ailments

Tech Soup

A social media surgery is an informal gathering of people who want to learn how to use the web to communicate, campaign, or collaborate. NetSquared Tanzania in Tanga, Tanzania. Portland, Oregon: Low-Cost, High-Impact Technology Tools. However, our organizers are currently very keen on social media surgeries.

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Technology & Community: Strategic Options for Building Movements

Amy Sample Ward

What that translates to is that a movement is built on collaboration, incorporates co-design between individuals and organizations, and remains focused, even during an event or campaign, on lasting, real impact. And everything was shareable, collaborative, contagious. It’s deeper than engagement, and longer than campaigns.

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Guest Post on Tactical Philanthropy: Causes, MySpace and ideablob

Amy Sample Ward

Communities on both platforms were clearly not part of the development and communications process, yet they were actively using the platform (for example, a grant from ideablob helped Epic Change implement a technology lab in a school in Tanzania ). Do you know what the plans are for the tools you are using? What’s Next.

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Guest Post by Stacey Monk: Dogooders Won’t Change the World (Alone)

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I want you, whether you’re in the Congo or Darfur or if you’re in Iran or if you’re in Tanzania, Kosovo…you shoot that story like it’s your mother, your brother, your sister, your father and your cousin and you tell that in that way because that’s actually the road, I think, to not only clarity and truth and understanding.

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Mapping funding for racial justice: A political imperative

Candid

For instance, our findings have been useful tools to advocate for more funding for disability rights [3] and to highlight the ways in which feminist movements could be more effectively resourced. That said, our research has long provided one of the most comprehensive snapshots of human rights funding. Tracking race and ethnicity.

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Five Social Media Fundraising Trends for 2009

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Over the past six months, I've been collaborating on a book with Allison Fine , titled " The Networked Nonprofit " and we've been sifting through stories, research, and seeing many patterns. If we only continue to use these tools to gather nonprofit trend data , we're missing some opportunities.