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Mr. Manager, Tear down this wall!

Forum One

Speakers came from Stephenson Strategies, DC government, NPR, and the Sunlight Foundation. Spawned by exaggerated fears, governments and content publishers distrusted their constituents or audiences and would only release information once it had been filtered, cleansed, or massaged. government to run a “ Show Us a Better Way ” contest.

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Cleaning Off My Desk for the New Year

Have Fun - Do Good

Rockin' CD to Benefit Hurricane Katrina Survivors The Ella Baker Center for Human Rights has produced a CD called, " Eye of the Storm: Love and Rage from the Bay to the Gulf ", to benefit survivors of Hurricane Katrina. Free Books for Kids! Look how cute these chimps are.

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Advice from Grantmakers on Streamlining Your Tech Solutions

sgEngage

Through hurricanes, fires, floods, the pandemic, and more, Two Ten awards millions of dollars in emergency relief each year, and they rely 100% on donor dollars to do it. For some of these apps, we’re still in adoption phase. You’ll know where your data is, and you’ll be able to keep it more secure.”

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My Organization is in “the cloud”! – What does that mean?

3rd Sector Labs

This is a problem for all industries, but especially for the nonprofit sector, because the private sector and government will typically pay more for the talent. How many stories have we read about banks, retailers, and our government being hacked and sensitive data being stolen? 4 – Security. This is a biggie. The Internet?

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How To Save The Planet: 10 Changes With The Biggest Impact

Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

If we go higher than this, we are looking at huge rises in sea levels, complete collapse of ocean ecosystems and more and more unpredictable extreme weather events like hurricanes and tsunamis. This isn’t the only study that supports the adoption of a largely plant-based diet. Eleven years to keep climate change under 1.5 So, what now?

Impact 98
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"Leveling the Playing Field" Through Broadband and Public Computers

NTEN

While the US is 24th worldwide in broadband adoption, the real gap is found in low-income urban households and rural areas in the US. He reported on current broadband adoption and made a case for the need to develop private-public partnerships to close the "digital divide."

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How To Save The Planet: 10 Changes With The Biggest Impact

Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

If we go higher than this, we are looking at huge rises in sea levels, complete collapse of ocean ecosystems and more and more unpredictable extreme weather events like hurricanes and tsunamis. This isn’t the only study that supports the adoption of a largely plant-based diet. Eleven years to keep climate change under 1.5 So, what now?

Impact 52