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Fighting for Civic Transparency with Technology in the Western Balkans

Tech Soup

This past spring, FTS was on the ground in the Western Balkans, helping organize the Community Boost_r Challenge. The goal was to find the best web or mobile ideas for social projects in Kosovo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Serbia. Šta se može uraditi? translates to "What can be done?

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Nonprofit Technology News for May 2014

Tech Soup

The Microsoft Imagine Cup is a student competition to create innovative IT projects and ultimately bring those ideas to market. Very sophisticated for a student team. Then after the project is funded, the money goes to TechBridge to implement and complete the work. Find out more on this new service here. Find more on this project here.

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Solutionary Women: Heddy Nam

Have Fun - Do Good

It was founded in 2001 by a group of college students from all over the world who wanted to ensure that “Never Again” became a reality rather than a rhetorical sound bite. Later, they learned that it happened again and again – in the cases of Cambodia, Bosnia and Rwanda - and it was still happening but nobody was doing anything about it.

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