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Cryptocurrency in the nonprofit sector: What you need to know

ASU Lodestar Center

Cryptocurrency is created by code, not issued by a government like dollars or pesos. Some estimates put crypto's global carbon footprint at a level comparable to the entire country of Argentina. Its value is determined by its perceived value, just like a traded stock.

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A First Look at Jumo

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Many of us have been up early playing with Jumo, setting up our individual profiles and finding issues and organizations or setting up profiles for organizations. The platform was seeded with some initial organization profiles and a focused set of issues. Argentina, France, India, or Kenya?&#

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Women Ingenuity is Powering Solutions for the Digital Divide

Connection Cafe

There are digital literacy trainings for women springing up in Bangladesh, Internet cafés for women opening doors in Argentina, and women leaders in Kenya prototyping mobile apps that send out alerts if a woman’s safety is threatened. Hundreds of submissions poured in from 70+ countries as part of our Women Weave the Web Campaign.

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An Interview with Lorene Straka, Joanna Eng, and Mari Velasco from the Idealist

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

If you want to get involved in social change issues or work with nonprofits anyplace on the globe, the Idealist is one of the first desinations on the web you should visit. When I joined, we were a staff of three, and we're now at 55 in two countries: the US and Argentina. It was, and continues to be, a great crew of people.

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An Interview with Silvia Tolisano of Langwitches Blog

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I grew up in Buenos Aires Argentina with a German/Argentinean father and a German mother. I am pleased that students who were somewhat limited in their exposure to multiple points of view on issues and culture are now being introduced to them and like this are broadening their horizon.

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Screencast Treatment: Web Analytics As Simple Gifts To Measure Mission

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

On the other hand, if a great resource exists but nobody seems to go there, they can try highlighting it in a different way to determine if it was a findability issue or the content just isn't as engaging as they thought. :) This hasn't happened yet in practice, but it's something we're looking at in the future.

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What is Jumo? | Nonprofit Trends with Steve MacLaughlin | a.

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Argentina, France, India, or Kenya?&# Jumo was seeded with more than 3,000 issues and groups, but anyone with a social mission can create a page. In the very early days of the website they had visitors answer a series of questions about interests, skills, and cause activities.

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