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Can love change the world? I hope so!

Amy Sample Ward

I see this work in public maps like Open Green Map. At 19, New Jersey native Maggie Doyne used her life savings from babysitting to start Kopila Valley children’s home in Nepal, which has grown to a home for over 40 children, and a school serving over 200 students. I see this lesson in the work of 350.org.

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Ushahidi Develops Innovative Tools for Nonprofits and Others Working to Benefit the Public

Tech Soup

Ushahidi has been developing open-source crisis mapping software for over eight years now. LABB created an Oil Spill Crisis Map in response to the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010. Since then, it has since logged, mapped, and tracked more than 14,000 reports of petrochemical pollution. It puts one type of data on a map.

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2013 NTC Round-Up: Your Takeaways

NTEN

Countries represented: 13 (US, Canada, UK, Korea, Australia, Switzerland, Netherlands, Poland, Belgium, Ireland, Nepal, Mexico, and Ghana). NTEN''s Lifetime Achievement Award Goes To Laura Glenn-Davitan , Common Good Vermont. Four Best Charity Videos Recognised by DoGooder Video Awards 2013 , UK Fundraising. Speakers: 250.

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2013 NTC Round-Up: Your Takeaways

NTEN

Countries represented: 13 (US, Canada, UK, Korea, Australia, Switzerland, Netherlands, Poland, Belgium, Ireland, Nepal, Mexico, and Ghana). NTEN''s Lifetime Achievement Award Goes To Laura Glenn-Davitan , Common Good Vermont. Four Best Charity Videos Recognised by DoGooder Video Awards 2013 , UK Fundraising. Speakers: 250.

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How the NetSquared Challenges Have Accelerated Tech for Good

Tech Soup

Since then Ushahidi has won other awards, including the MacArthur Award for Creative & Effective Institutions. The information would be compiled and displayed in real time online on a map. And the prize money allowed us to bootstrap the much refined idea into something viable." Since then, there have been more than 6.5