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[Book Interview] Nonprofit Example of Social Media Excellence: Women for Women International

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Though many of the countries we work in are talked about in the news (DR Congo, Iraq, Afghanistan, Sudan), some aren’t as well-known (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Nigeria) and we often need to explain why operating in these countries is important. Anything else?

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Nonprofit Technology News for November 2013

Tech Soup

We are testing it out at hackathons this month in San Francisco and also in Sarajevo in Bosnia. Examples of NT100 projects include: Witness , the Peter Gabriel-founded watchdog charity which uses online videos call attention to human rights abuses. ” The World Bank blog reports that it has launched an open data website.

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Solutionary Women: Heddy Nam

Have Fun - Do Good

Later, they learned that it happened again and again – in the cases of Cambodia, Bosnia and Rwanda - and it was still happening but nobody was doing anything about it. That’s when they decided that youth, who are idealistic, energetic and open-minded, would be the engine to peacebuilding to ensure that genocide does not go unchallenged.

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