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Ending the Cycle of Poverty With Access to Quality Education

Saleforce Nonprofit

Years later, this first girl, Srey Nich, has graduated from university. CCF now has five schools, with the flagship Neeson Cripps Academy (NCA), located less than 300 meters from the landfill site, providing a first class STEM-based education and route to university, vocational training, or directly into a career.

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SocComm - New York on February 10

See3

On February 10th 2009 at the 3LD Art and Technology Center in New York City, social media guru Jeff Pulver is producing SocComm - The Social Communications Summit. 9:20 - 9:40 - (M) David Kirkpatrick, Senior Editor, Fortune Magazine. 9:20 - 9:40 - (M) David Kirkpatrick, Senior Editor, Fortune Magazine.

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New Book Loveworks Teaches How To Make Emotional Connections

Eric Jacobsen Blog

New Book Announcement: Loveworks is researched and written by Brian Sheehan , a professor of advertising at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University in New York. In 2010 Advertising Age magazine named Lovemarks one of their "ideas of the decade."

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Webinar: Winning the Story Wars

Care2

Jonah and his work have been featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, CNN, FOX News, Sundance Film Festival, NPR, The Colbert Report, and in FastCompany Magazine, which named him one of the 50 most influential social innovators. He lives in Oakland with his wife Chelsea, their daughter Mira, and son Orion.

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Carrie Karnos, recipient of the 2006 James H. Veale Humanitarian Award.

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Here's the letter from the editor of Matilda Ziegler Magazine, which explains why Carrie was deserving of this award: A Letter from the Editor New York City Dec. Matilda Ziegler Foundation for the Blind, which funds this magazine as well as eye research programs at universities across the United States.

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Upcoming Nonprofits Live: Storytelling and Collaborative Video

Tech Soup

His writings and photographs have been published in print and online with the BBC , Guardian , Adbusters , the Sarai Reader , Glimpse Magazine , Next American City , Focus on the Global South , Alternet , and Grist. Berkeley, Stanford, United Nations University, New York University, UC.

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Jocelyn Harmon: People, Words, Technology & Truth: How I Have Fun, Do Good

Have Fun - Do Good

You can read her writing in Fundraising Success magazine and her personal blog, Marketing for Nonprofits. Jocelyn has a bachelor's degree in literature from New York University and a master’s degree in sociology from University of Washington. You can follow Jocelyn on Twitter at @jocelynharmon.

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