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Women’s History Month: 11 Nonprofits That Are Advocating For Female Empowerment

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Join the community. Mission: The mission of Crossroads for Women is to provide comprehensive, integrated services to empower women emerging from incarceration to achieve safe, healthy, and fulfilling lives in the community, for themselves and their children. Purchase a t-shirt, bag, or phone case. Partner with them.

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Six Things to Know in Nonprofit Technology News

Tech Soup

High-Tech Help for Homelessness. Why would a homeless person need a mobile phone? For one thing, phones allow them to look for work, housing, or medical help. Phones also provide a reliable contact method for people who have no permanent address. Cloud Storage Price Wars Update.

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Kids and Philanthropy: Teaching Your Children To Be Charitable

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I’ve been volunteering for community causes since I was a kid, something my family encouraged. The media has dubbed this generation “ Qwerty Monsters ”; they send hundreds of text messages a day and don’t even like to use their phone for calls. I don’t do this with an expectation of any return–financial or otherwise.

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Win a Sony PS3 and Support Young Homeless People from the UK

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Last week I wrote about a virtual homeless teenager in Second Life who raising awareness of the plight of homeless teens in Spain. 1 text or phone entrance fee go to help The Foyer Foundation , a nonprofit that works with homeless young people. tools to he word through the gaming community by using Digg.

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7 LGBT Tech Projects You Need to Know

Tech Soup

Formed in response to the growing employment and economic barriers that plague the transgender (sometimes called "trans") community, Trans*H4ck is a series of hackathons that bring visibility to trans entrepreneurs and innovators while developing new and useful open-source tech products that benefit the trans community.

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Mobile Tech Connects Kids to Summer Meals

Tech Soup

Referrers include staff from nonprofits, community centers, public libraries, and other organizations that work with youth during the summer months. Range also pulls in data about each meal provider, such as its hours of operation, its phone number, and a brief description. Range as a Resource: Lift Communities.

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Are You Serving Youth in Your Community? Think You Could Use a Free Tablet?

Tech Soup

We want you to tell us how you are using products donated through TechSoup to help the youth in your community develop valuable life skills that will prepare them to take full advantage of their bright futures. Interested in winning this tablet? If you answered yes to all of those questions, keep reading! Ready to enter?

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