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12 Early Adopters of the.NGO and.ONG Domains

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Mission: To help eradicate extreme poverty through community development projects in urban sanitation, water filtration, health, alternative energy, and economic empowerment. Mission: To fund social entrepreneurs in the developing world through crowdfunding. Grassroots Pakistan ● grassrootspakistan.ngo. Kijani ● kijani.ngo.

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[Book Interview] Nonprofit Example of Social Media Excellence: Women for Women International

Nonprofit Tech for Good

If anything, I have been encouraged to develop a solid social media strategy with help from our Director of Marketing, as well as continued support from my fellow marketing staff here. I developed a full-scale social media campaign that required daily posting for summer 2010 and didn’t even come close to posting every day.

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Fighting for Civic Transparency with Technology in the Western Balkans

Tech Soup

The goal was to find the best web or mobile ideas for social projects in Kosovo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Serbia. The finalists were paired up with technologists to develop a platform that could be worked on in a series of code sprints.

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Upwardly Global: Bridging the Opportunity Gap for Skilled Immigrants

Tech Soup

Although that plant was considered a model employer for refugees at the time, Jane met employees who included a former engineer from Iraq and a surgeon from Bosnia. Thus, they have built a best-in-class program by developing and honing that expertise. at their full potential. through its Job Seeker Services Program.

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Generation Rwanda: Two Stories

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It includes personal testimonies, photographs, and artifacts. Another exhibit looks at past massacres in Armenia, Bosnia, Cambodia, The Holocaust, and other places of the world where genocide has taken place. The main exhibition tells the history of Rwanda leading up to the genocide, what happened, and the aftermath.

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Hackathons for Good: Techies, Thinkers, and Activists Unite

Tech Soup

A hackathon is an event where programmers, developers, designers, and leaders come together to collaborate on an app, website, or software projects. Microsoft's International Women's Hackathon challenged female developers to combat issues like human trafficking through new mobile apps and web programs. or Code for Oakland ).

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Nonprofit Technology News for November 2013

Tech Soup

Hacker Helper is a free online tool that will allow volunteer developers to prepare for hackathons. It provides the developers with links to the relevant data sets, APIs, and code bases that can be used to streamline the hackathon experience. TechSoup Technologies for Good. Hacker Helper. It also lists and maps hackathons worldwide.

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