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

Saleforce Nonprofit

In recent years, we have seen the growth of technology interventions that help small-scale farmers access life-saving information to protect their livelihoods and their families. Senior Humanitarian Climate Crisis Advisor, Save the Children International. However, there’s a lot more work to be done. These ideas are just the start.

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5 Ways To Expand Financial Inclusion For The World’s Poor

Global Giving

And the government of Bangladesh announced plans for a nationwide mobile payments system by early 2018.This It’s making life better and business easier for people everywhere. It’s making life better and business easier for people everywhere. Biometric data to enable government benefit transfers.

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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

I’m teaching a graduate class at the Monterey Institute of International Studies based on my books, The Networked Nonprofit and Measuring the Networked Nonprofit. They will be placed with organizations working on policies in these areas, many part of large international networks, nonprofits, and government.

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Promise and Peril: Martus for Human Rights in Burma

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

ND-Burma member groups regularly send observers, at great personal risk, across Burma’s borders with India, Bangladesh, Thailand and China. As soon as this brave observer could reach a place of relative safety back in Thailand, she used Martus to secure the sensitive information she had risked her life to obtain.

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Grave Work

Non Profit Quarterly

Myopia undoubtedly affects those at the furthest reaches of other supply chains too – someone stitching garments in Bangladesh for Primark may not know, ultimately, which company their labour serves. For algorithmic sorcery to remain the rarified precinct of data mystics and arbitrageurs, new kinds of economic blindness must be conjured.

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

Have Fun - Do Good

And, at a time when the international women's movement is facing challenges, it would be great to have a reminder that good news is going on, that good work is being done, that progress is happening. They are gaining support from people in government, and politicians, and academicians, and business people, men, boys, women, girls.