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CEO’s Update: Fall 2014

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

More and more of my time is spent around both raising money and raising awareness of how much more could be done with technology to increase social impact. We competed against other participating organizations, racing against the clock to raise funds and secure matching funding from the Skoll Foundation.

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Upcoming Nonprofits Live: DIY Blogging

Tech Soup

Expert guests include: Jody Dilday ( @jdilday ), executive director of Single Parent Scholarship Fund of Northwest Arkansas ( @SPSFNWA ), has spent her career raising awareness and support for nonprofit organizations. Hashtag: #NPLive. RSVP to join the live show. and LA Media Reform Group , to name a few.

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Empowering Women Citizen Journalists: An Interview with Cristi Hegranes

Have Fun - Do Good

It is great when people know that their money is going directly to the journalists, directly funding somebody's life and somebody's well being. That is also very valuable for us, for more media outlets to be aware of our content, and what we are producing. We have $2 donors out of Zimbabwe and $20,000 donors out of San Francisco.

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Using Photography to Change the World: An Interview with Paola Gianturco

Have Fun - Do Good

She is donating 100 percent of the royalties from the book to the Global Fund for Women. A high school English teacher in Zimbabwe, whose name is Betty Makoni , began hearing stories from her students after school, that they had been raped. There are no men in Zimbabwe who are immune to these girls' attention. PG: Well, yes.