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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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14+ Excellent Nonprofit Annual Reports

Whole Whale

Moreover, the image is focused on an individual which allows the reader to empathize with the child and imagine her succeeding — and the key stats about the DREAM community suggest she will! In a traditional PDF, this would take 5 separate charts and even then we wouldn’t get the same effect of watching this program grow on a national level.

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Storymakers 2014: Meet Our Esteemed Judges

Tech Soup

In 2004, Joaquin began the National Public Lightpath, advocating high-speed, fiber-optic network as the next generation of the Internet. Her work reaches a community of more than 5,000 nonprofit professionals each month. Mikey has published two books, including the Bradt Travel Guide to Bangladesh. Erinn Andrews. Bailey Rosser.

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The Davos Blur

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

James Moody of Australia’s national research organization was talking about an idea of a humanitarian license for patents that has been floated by the YGL community. In the morning, I attended a session put on by the Young Global Leaders with six interesting proposals.

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President's Update

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

For example, I'm planning on going to India and Bangladesh next month for the first time, and to Uganda and Sudan next year. Speaking of the press, it is clear that they really get my overarching goal: to engage more of the tech community in serving the 90% of humanity we haven't been focusing on (yet). we need help.

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A Round Up of Food Charities and Causes to Fight Hunger

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The victims of Cyclone Sidr in the southwestern region of Bangladesh have immediate needs for relief items, including food and non-food items, emergency shelter, basic health care, clean water and more. I thought I'd highlight a few charitable organizations that are working to end hunger and some opportunities for donations.

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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? How is blockchain being used in the social sector so far?