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Bitcoin for Nonprofits: Cryptocurrency Fundraising for the Future

Nonprofit Tech for Good

By Alex Wilson , Director of BlockShop DC and founding partner of The Giving Block. We are currently at a stage similar to the mid-1990s of the internet and tech boom where the technology is still in its early days. At BlockShop DC , we are educating organizations on how to take part in and benefit from this growing industry.

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Please Join VisionLink In Welcoming Aaron Titus To Our Proud Family!

VisionLink

Aaron has spent seven years as the Privacy Fellow for the Washington DC policy institute Liberty Coalition. As an attorney he specializes in internet, technology, privacy, and corporate law and has consulted organizations on legal requirements, risk identification, risk management, and developing a corporate culture of privacy.

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Receiving the 2013 Migel Medal

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The other recipient this year was Kay Ferrell, Professor of Special Education at the University of Northern Colorado in Greeley, who won the Medal for her tremendous work with and on behalf of children and youth who are blind and visually impaired. I especially want to acknowledge two people who helped make this award possible. Washington?

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Open Source and the Promise of Sustainable Nutrition Security

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Recently I had the opportunity to get introduced to Gerald Nelson , senior climate change researcher and Professor Emeritus at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. This week, on September 10-12 at Purdue University, CIMSANS will be co-hosting a workshop and summit focused on improving food systems data and models.

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Forum One Wins 10 Davey Awards

Forum One

The Freedmen’s Bureau Search Portal was a massive undertaking that could not have happened without the Smithsonian, multiple partners, the thousands of volunteers who transcribed the documents, and the technology that powers the portal. To date, more than 400,000 pages of records have been transcribed. congressional districts.

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Wearable Computing: Sussing Out the Frontiers of Nonprofit Technology

Tech Soup

last week to see what’s really going on in the frontier of nonprofit technology: wearable devices. As luck would have it, I got to chatting right away with Ned Malik, CTO of Vision Online , a DC-based company that provides cutting-edge information technology to government. The conference attracted 1,200 attendees.

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Caltech and Sustainability

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

When I can find the time, I jump at the opportunity to visit universities. The universities I visit tend to be full of students and faculty committed to doing important and innovative work. million they need to build the house and transport it to the Mall in Washington DC for the judging. They’ve already raised $800k of the $1.1-1.2

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