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Hurricane Sandy Art Relief: An Interview with Elana Haviv

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CMCE creates academic and artistic programs to help children and youth understand and overcome violent world events. Elana designed The Telling History Project: Understanding the Past to Create the Future , a curriculum to teach students about human rights. She also pioneered art-based healing programs in post-war Bosnia.

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Hackathons for Good: Techies, Thinkers, and Activists Unite

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Last year, TechSoup held a Saturday Hackathon 4 Good where nonprofits and techies could join forces to create solutions for social good. meets LinkedIn for students. Serbia) in partnership with TechSoup Global and Zasto ne (Bosnia and Herzegovina). The ReStart Challenges. Image credit: Hackathon, hackNY.

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Nonprofit Technology News for May 2014

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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.

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Beijing 2008 Olympics Potential Catalyst for Human Rights

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The 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing is providing leverage for Tibetan, Darfurian, Burmese and Chinese human rights campaigns: The International Campaign for Tibet created the Race for Tibet. Amnesty International has created a press kit for reporters covering the Olympics. Requests for change are coming from within China as well.

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