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BiGTech India Connects Nonprofits with IT Students

Tech Soup

To celebrate, TechSoup's partner in India, BiGTech , held the Find an IT Partner event in Mumbai to connect local nonprofits with IT students. The event was hosted by the Don Bosco Institute of Technology (DBIT), giving the IT students at the school a chance to hone their professional skills in a real work environment.

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Spotlight on South Africa: Nonprofit Profiles from SANGONeT

Tech Soup

Published on SANGONeT's content portal, NGOPulse, the organizations profiled range from education, social outreach, poverty relief, environment, and more. The students are generally post-high school, but have no access to further education or training. The organization focuses particularly on women and students in rural areas.

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Giving Thanks with Cloud for Good

Cloud 4 Good

I’m incredibly thankful for the opportunity many of Cloud for Good’s education clients and their students had in being able to return to campuses nationwide for academics, collegiate athletics, and extracurricular activities. Dave Sicoli – Managing Director, Education Industry.

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BRAC

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

My primary destination in Bangladesh was to meet with BRAC , which is the world's largest NGO (nonprofit organization) with nearly 100,000 employees. BRAC is one of the social entrepreneurship field's best example of what a results-oriented team can accomplish even in the most difficult and poverty-stricken environment.

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Metrics for Virtual Worlds: Can you measure engagement?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

via the Mind Blizzard Blog I learned of a new Dutch NGO island, called "Goede Doelen eiland" ( good causes island ). The island is sponsored by Dutch bankers ABN Amro and the Free University of Amsterdam (VUA) and was build by students of the VUA. " Steve Bridger.

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Basic Blogging for Women Workshop

Have Fun - Do Good

In early July, I posted about a Basic Blogging for Women Workshop I'd be teaching this fall, but after talking to some prospective students, I decided that it was important to find a space where everyone could be on a computer, so I changed the date and the venue so that we can be in a computer lab. 125 if received after October 9th.

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Solutionary Women: Viet-Ly Nguyen

Have Fun - Do Good

Our writing workshops focus on autobiographical writing and storytelling, and we actually do a lot of storytelling performance and theater with the students. It's really neat because the students work on one autobiographical story for two weeks, and at the end they have one complete story that they can call their very own.