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Women Ingenuity is Powering Solutions for the Digital Divide

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World leaders and technology firms should be paying attention to their solutions—and backing them up. And then there is Myrna in the Philippines, who escaped trafficking as a young girl and worked as a domestic helper. World leaders and technology firms should be paying attention to their solutions—and backing them up.

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Women's Global Green Action Network: An Interview with Melinda Kramer

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So, for example, we just did a really powerful training in the Philippines, where our regional leaders there hosted a training on a water filter. We have a woman in the Philippines who is helping to train women on local water filters. Britt: Can you tell us one collaboration success story? It's called the Biosand Water Filter.

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112 Nonprofit Blog Posts, Articles, and Stories from 2013 You Can’t Miss.

Connection Cafe

Support in the Philippines is needed and this post has compiled a list of nonprofit organizations providing aid. With the ever declining attention span of your audience, it’s necessary that you start appealing to a broader range of senses. Baldrick’s Foundation shares expert story-telling advice. You should.

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Bringing Women a Global Voice: Jensine Larsen, World Pulse

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A lot of attention on team, it's probably the hardest thing because you have to keep getting out of your own way. We trained them in how to use their cell phones for rapid response, and how to write Op-eds, feature stories, and front line journals. We had the BBC pick up some of those stories, the UN Wire, and The Huffington Post.

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Nonprofit Technology News for June 2013

Tech Soup

The leaders in adoption are China, India, Indonesia, Iran, Russia, Nigeria, the Philippines, Brazil, and Mexico. The Guardian story talks about Anonymous taking up the cause of deceased 17-year-old Rehtaeh Parsons , an alleged gang rape victim who killed herself after she was bullied by her Nova Scotian classmates. There are now 2.4

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