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Announcing Our Second Impact Labs Cohort on Zero Hunger: Supporting Small-Scale Farmers Globally

Saleforce Nonprofit

We generated ideas for features like crop-specific guidance, multi-language accessibility, real-time market pricing data, and access to peer-to-peer training and resources. Senior Humanitarian Climate Crisis Advisor, Save the Children International.

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Metaphors

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Of course, the use of business metaphors, language and procedures in the nonprofit sector in general is far from new, and it’s been a trend I’ve not liked much. The wholesale adoption of for profit language into the nonprofit space has bothered me for years.

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The Tech That Will Change 2016

Tech Soup

This has been a steady upward trend since 2008. But with so many charities and libraries working with children, the weird new security threat in 2016 will be smart toys. Children love it. The intruder was able to get names, addresses, genders, birth dates, and even photos of children — more than six million children.

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The Art of Relevance Sneak Peek: Whose Room is This?

Museum 2.0

By 2015, the Elks Lodge had become a haven for LGBT parents of young children. The only public pool in the city of Santa Cruz was closed in the 2008 recession for four years. When you are on the inside, this doesn’t sound like inclusive language. I didn’t get it. Then my friend explained: it was all about the pool.

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Citizen Tech: Social Media in Disaster Response

Amy Sample Ward

On September 11, despite having reunited several families, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children had a list of 1,600 children listed as missing by their parents, or who were seeking their families. Yahoo set up 100 Internet-linked computers at the Astrodome and developed a meta-search of evacuee registration websites.

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Empowering Women Citizen Journalists: An Interview with Cristi Hegranes

Have Fun - Do Good

"Now, 18 months later, all of Juana's children are in school. In January, Cristi was named one of the 21 Leaders of the 21st Century for 2008 by Women's eNews. Many of our trainees and journalists in Nepal do have children. Hopefully sometime in 2008 we will be able to establish that office.

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Research Friday: Is traditional civic engagement dead?

ASU Lodestar Center

HOWEVER, also included in the July 2011 edition of CIRCLE is a report on "The Language of Youth Civic Organizations." It reports on a 2008 study of the American public by the National Conference on Citizenship that found that almost one third of the respondents did not know what the term "civic engagement" meant.