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Tech Impact Receives $200,000 Grant

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William Kendima moved from Liberia to the United States in 2005. While in Liberia, Kendima never used a computer; however, through dedication, hard work, and a little help from ITWorks , Kendima’s dream of working in IT has been realized. “I William Kendima, ITWorks graduate speaks at ceremony.

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Benetech and the Liberian Truth and Reconciliation Commission

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Benetech Analyzes Human Rights Data for the Liberian Truth and Reconciliation Commission A Guest Beneblog post by Kristen Cibelli Our team at the Benetech Human Rights Data Analysis Group (HRDAG) has recently concluded a three-year project with Liberian Truth and Reconciliation Commission to help clarify Liberia's violent history.

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5 Things Nonprofits Can Learn from the Late, Great David Carr

Tech Soup

Over the last decade, David Carr became the pre-eminent media critic in the United States. In the documentary, Carr scolds Vice co-founder Shane Smith for impugning the Times ' news judgment: "Before you ever went to Liberia," Carr said, "we've had reporters reporting on genocide after genocide.

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President's Update: Summer 2008

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

In essence, we're being paid to deliver – free – accessible books to all students with print disabilities in the United States for the next five years. You can visit our Colombia Project Page to read more about this work. Our work in Liberia, funded by the State Department in support of the Truth Commission (TRC) continues.

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Sheroes You Should Know: Inspiring Stories for #WomensHistoryMonth

EveryAction

To this day, it is still considered one of the finest works in the history of Japanese literature. Lucila Godoy y Alcayaga (under her literary pseudonym Gabriela Mistral) was the first Latin American woman to win a Nobel Prize for literature for her poetic work, Sonnets of Death. Gabriela Mistral. Do you love ladies in literature?

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In Search of Hope: The Global Diaries of Mariane Pearl

Have Fun - Do Good

She traveled over 100,000 miles and interviewed 12 women activists who are working on solutions to everything from sex trafficking, to global warming, to AIDS. This, I told the President of the United States, 'is my biggest battle.'" In Search of Hope is part of that battle for herself, and for her son, Adam.

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The Global Fund for Women: An Interview with Kavita Ramdas

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As a feminist, and as a feminine feminist, I truly believe that we don't do a very good job in the United States of believing that you can lead by serving, and I think the United States needs to think deeply about being in service of the rest of the world." It works in over 160 countries around the world.

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