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Senior Full Stack Web Application Developer

Kindful

A typical day as an application developer at Kindful involves about 75% independent focused work and 25% collaboration. This could appear in any form such as: providing direction, guidance, or instruction as a senior member of a team, coaching, mentoring, etc. The applicant must be able to work in the United States without sponsorship.

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Thoughts on the Future of Open Source and Nonprofits

NTEN

Based on my informal assessment of attitudes and interest in the NTEN community about open source software, I think there's a significant and growing number of folks and organizations who are either interested in, already using, or even evangelizing open source solutions. Current Trends.

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Benetech, Bookshare and Google Summer of Code

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Many thanks to Thushan Ganegedara for this guest post about his summer open source project. My project is associated with the ‘Go Read’ Android application. Therefore, the application will be extended to allow users to download newspapers and magazines as well as books. She has been a wonderful mentor.

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Transform Your Communications & Collaboration With Slack

Saleforce Nonprofit

Slack automatically organizes students into smaller course-group channels with industry mentors to help ensure their success. As courses progress, Slack is used as the central channel for all course communications, including peer collaboration, speaker announcements, industry news, and mentor feedback.

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Storytelling in the Digital Age: Lessons from the SOCAP12 Conference

Tech Soup

The example he used was the hero myth: an underdog starts from nothing, becomes educated or stronger by way of a mentor, and then saves the world. Sachs said that organizations must make their audiences the hero and put themselves in the place of the mentor. Create Documentaries for Your Cause.

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Introducing the Knight News Challenge Garage

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Inspired by TechStars and YCombinator , the Garage creates a ( drupal platform) community where current and potential applications for funding can enter their ideas, share comments and peer review, and request mentor support to improve their application before they submit it.

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Why Tech Nonprofits Are Building Digital Tools for Racial Equity and Justice

Non Profit Quarterly

Tech nonprofit” is an emerging term that refers to a tech startup that is building software or web applications using a nonprofit model for social impact. Tech nonprofit” is an emerging term that refers to a tech startup that is building software or web applications using a nonprofit model for social impact.

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