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Mobilizing Impact at the 2013 Clinton Global Initiative Annual Meeting

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Department of State, about empowering the world’s billion people with disabilities ; or to talking with my peer Skoll Award winners about writing software for development, social justice and human rights needs—CGI 2013 was a nonstop flow of sessions and exchanges with partners on ways to leverage resources towards each organization’s mission.

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See What’s Out There » Blog Archive » The Problem with Subsidies

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.&# The video below is called “The Problem with Subsidies&# and it is a look at how US farm subsidies impact farmers in Africa. What I am struck by in this video is how, with world markets, you have a woman picking cotton by hand in Africa competing with a Texas cotton farmer with giant fields and giant equipment.

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Nonprofit Technology News: 2013 Year in Review

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In hardware life extension news, the grand award winner for software in Popular Science's Best of What's New 2013 this year is a server/software technology called Neverware Juicebox. I see the grand wave of IoT and Big Data combining to generate the copyright issue for the ages. Green Technology. MyDigitalBridge.

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See What’s Out There » Blog Archive » A Great Event

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The program ended with a South African woman named Mama G, who thanked AJWS and its supporters for helping fight HIV/AIDS in Africa. Recent Posts 5 Questions to Evaluate Your Nonprofit Video ROI Enter the 2010 Tagline Awards Today! And she sang a thank you song that was moving and beautiful and upbeat.

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See What’s Out There » Blog Archive » Why do people give charity?

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We all have different strategies and takes on how to reach out to potential donors,” said Nicole Eley of Africare, which sends development and relief aid to Africa. Recent Posts 5 Questions to Evaluate Your Nonprofit Video ROI Enter the 2010 Tagline Awards Today! Many of them work, some don’t — it’s a trial-and-error process.”

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Benetech: the Equilibrium Change Machine

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Even though I’m a Skoll Award winner, it really made me think about my organization, Benetech, and what we are trying to accomplish. I always refer aspiring social entrepreneurs to the article when they ask me how they can win a Skoll Award. It makes a copyright exception like the U.S.

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Why I’m Scared of the SOPA Bill by Jim Fruchterman

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

We’re against piracy, and have made commitments to authors and publishers to encourage compliance with copyright law. We work in North Africa Latin America, Asia: most of the places where large scale human rights abuses are going on. But, when asked if we know whether or not there are “pirated” copyrighted materials, we can’t say.

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