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Salesforce.org & iHeartMedia Announce New Force Multiplier Podcast with Host Baratunde Thurston

Saleforce Nonprofit

In the first episode , which will be released on all podcast streaming platforms on August 12, Dr. Kyla Johnson-Tramell from Oakland Unified School District and Gita Rampersad from Feeding America discuss the complexities of nutrition insecurity. The cycle can be very destructive. About the Author. Cristina Jones.

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AI for Nonprofits and Social Good: Link Roundup

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Facilitated by Lucy Bernholz, the panelists discussed how data mining, policy algorithms, and predictive risk models affect poor and working-class people in America. What should governments, universities and companies do? How does machine learning actually work? Why is it dangerous to ignore machine learning?

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TechSoup Local Impact Map Profile: Nonprofits Back to School — In Brazil

Tech Soup

UNESCO views NGOs' role in fundamental economic development as crucial, especially in countries where governments are unable to adequately educate schoolchildren. They’re now to the point where each student has access to an individual computer workstation during classes. Even in the U.S.,

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TechSoup Local Impact Map Profile: Nonprofits Back to School — In Brazil

Tech Soup

views NGOs' role in fundamental economic development as crucial, especially in countries where governments are unable to adequately educate schoolchildren. Its Connecting To Life program (Projeto Conectando com a Vida in Portuguese) provides computer education classes to at-risk youth so they can get well-paid information technology jobs.

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Forward Unto the Breach: Don’t Rest on Nonprofit Laurels

Bloomerang

In the Broadway musical “Hamilton,” the lead character of Alexander sings about who he and America are meant to be. If you’re involved in any type of health or human services, you can offer an expansive range of prevention and early intervention classes. Who Are You Meant to Be? He, like his country, is “young, scrappy and hungry.”

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Meet the Community’s New Lead Organizers

NTEN

I was named to the inaugural class of Distinguished Fellows of the Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP) in 2017, became a Certified Fundraising Executive (CFRE) in 2001, and have traveled all over North America teaching fundraising and nonprofit management. I am starting to train to run a half-marathon next.

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CEO’s Update: Fall 2014

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

From people in Latin America who face severe water scarcity to at-risk human rights defenders and students with disabilities, our users and their families are the ones who best convey the impact of our work. billion poor and unbanked. Martus is our free, open source, secure information collection and management tool.