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I Need a Good Lawyer

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

We’re deep believers in the benefits of openness, which means we publish open source software and create open content under Creative Commons licenses. We’re not an advocacy organization, but our technical insights are in great demand from advocates. We serve human rights activists in more than 100 countries.

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Guest Post by Stephanie McAuliffe: SoCap09 - Day 2 Roundup

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Others examples include loans to schools in India and capital for small manufacturers in Ghana. Lucy Bernholz, moderating, said that metrics are the carbon in the ecosystem and the oxygen is the policy frame. She’s launched a policy project you can read about here. People are open sourcing their metrics, and building taxonomy.

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Women's Global Green Action Network: An Interview with Melinda Kramer

Have Fun - Do Good

For example, some of our women in Africa and India are interested in taking the ideas and the best practices that came out of this training into their regions. So our first exchange that we did with Global Exchange was called "Transformative Advocacy in Bolivia." This was what didn't. These were our challenges.

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