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New data for strategic disaster philanthropy 

Candid

The Rohingya crisis continued unabated, increasing the number of refugees, asylum seekers, and internally displaced people in Bangladesh and surrounding countries. These were just a few of the dozens of disasters that hit communities across the globe during the year. . billion. . billion for U.S. disasters; the U.S.

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Announcing Our Second Impact Labs Cohort on Zero Hunger: Supporting Small-Scale Farmers Globally

Saleforce Nonprofit

Impact Labs convenes community experts, or fellows, across sectors to co-create new technology solutions to support specific issue areas, including homelessness , equity in education , and climate justice. As a team, we discussed opportunity areas that emerged from our early conversations with the Community Fellows. Casper Stryndom.

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Women Ingenuity is Powering Solutions for the Digital Divide

Connection Cafe

Over the hum of her café’s fuel-powered generator, Olutosin types, “Our center is the safest place for any woman to access the Internet in my community. At World Pulse we trust that local women community leaders will reveal the way forward. Women in our online community tell of solutions, but they also tell of risk.

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Research Friday: The Functions of Government in Social Entrepreneurship

ASU Lodestar Center

ASU School of Community Resources & Development. Government has a rich legacy of social entrepreneurship. as well as the national governments of much of the developed world, robustly practices variants of high-capacity governmental social innovation today, such as the myriad programs countering the global Great Recession.

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Blockchain Explained: Risks And Opportunities For Philanthropy

Global Giving

At its core, blockchain technology is a way of creating trust in a community that doesn’t rely on a central actor. Rather, the trust is distributed across the entire community, which makes it impossible for a single actor to compromise the system’s integrity. What is blockchain?

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Tech@State – Civil Society 2.0: Reflections on Networked Nonprofits and Free Agents

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

My goal was to have a conversation with the folks in the room – who represented both traditional nonprofit institutions, government agencies, and free agents – and answer the question, “ I’ve found my free agent now what? &#. Fortunately, that’s not true for every agency Mark has collaborated with.

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International Organizations and Social Media: News, Engagement, and Social Data for Policy Change

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

They will be placed with organizations working on policies in these areas, many part of large international networks, nonprofits, and government. Several governments have recognized the power of Twitter relations, actively seeking to connect with their peers around the world. Citizen Digital Engagement in Policy Discussions and Action.

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