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Veterans Organic Garden: An Off-the-Grid Jobs Program

Tech Soup

Lovay told me that the whole enterprise was designed from the beginning to be financially and environmentally sustainable. We plan to grow organic tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers, potatoes, onions, garlic, shallots, peas, blackberries, blueberries, strawberries, figs, and grapes." for disabled veterans. We have 46 beds.

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Mobile Innovations for Social Good

NTEN

An academic-community partnership, the project brings together immigrant day laborers, scholars, software developers, and community organizers for participatory design, curriculum development, evaluation and research around this emerging media tool and its social impact. Second Place: $15,000. First Place: $25,000.

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NpTech Summary: VTvigils Online, Netsquared Announces 21 Featured Projects, and Happiness Hacking

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AFP Blog points a story about a blackberry service outage that left millions of users without wireless e-mail access. If you want to keep up with the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC), check out the wiki. Refunds for Good is designed help you do that and celebrity Martin Sheen tells you why. Freecharity.org.uk

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Tech for Good at Mobile World Congress

Tech Soup

Windows Phone 8 is designed to work with Windows 8 and Windows software. For example, you can work on a document in the new Microsoft Office on your Windows 8 laptop, take a break, and then pick up where you left off on your Windows Phone. KAPSYS, a French start-up, launched the first smartphone designed for the visually-impaired.

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