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Hurricane Sandy Art Relief: An Interview with Elana Haviv

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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. CMCE creates academic and artistic programs to help children and youth understand and overcome violent world events.

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Generation Rwanda: Two Stories

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The site operations a Genocide Archive, a Museum, Education and Social programs, and a memorial garden and burial grounds. 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.

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Fighting for Civic Transparency with Technology in the Western Balkans

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The goal was to find the best web or mobile ideas for social projects in Kosovo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Serbia. Three project winners were chosen from each country: From Bosnia and Herzegovina: Centar 72 aims to solve community problems within 72 hours. Ttaram aims to improve education in Kosovo.

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Hackathons for Good: Techies, Thinkers, and Activists Unite

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meets LinkedIn for students. One cool project that came out of a RHoK event is InfoPlace Kenya , an Android application for information and directions of essential places in Kenya like hospitals, tourists attractions, restaurants, educational facilities, and more. The project is run by Fundacja TechSoup and Dokukino.

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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. He doesn’t run an organization; He's the digital media manager at Pathways to Education in Toronto. Find out more on this new service here.

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Solutionary Women: Heddy Nam

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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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