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Upwardly Global: Bridging the Opportunity Gap for Skilled Immigrants

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Upwardly Global, also known as "UpGlo," is working to combat this disparity. The organization was originally founded to fill a specific gap in immigrant and refugee services after Jane Leu, UpGlo's founder, took a tour of a poultry plant. Meghan Lewit is Upwardly Global's senior associate for marketing communications.

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12 Early Adopters of the.NGO and.ONG Domains

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Unlike the.ORG domain which can be registered by any individual or brand (but mostly registered by nonprofits and socially conscious for-profits), the new.NGO and.ONG domains can only be registered by nonprofits, charities, NGOs (non-governmental organizations), and ONGs (non-governmental organizations in a romance-based language ).

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Fighting for Civic Transparency with Technology in the Western Balkans

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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. The goal of OBJEKTIVno bolje is to stop hateful graffiti in Serbia. The Power of Technology Challenges.

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The Future of Fundraising, Part Two

Tech Soup

Globally, 34 percent of people report owning smartphones. Online video consumption rates are now as high as television viewer rates globally. Social-benefit organizations can learn a lot from the preceding examples and those that follow to harness the power of technology and social media for fundraising.

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10NTC: Are Nonprofits the New International Correspondents?

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Mercy Corps' Roger Burks had organized a dinner especially for writers and editors. NGOs understand the issues in troubled areas as well as reporters do; we have the opportunity to market our sector as a trusted, impartial source for global reporting. Tags: Digital Divide Reporting Running Your Organization.

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Nonprofit Technology News for May 2014

Tech Soup

TechSoup Global donation partner, Cisco , is starting to talk about an alternative to cloud computing, the paradigm that relies on huge data centers to do all our processing. nonprofit organization is invited to post their technology project on the website. It’s time to catch up on some nonprofit technology trends and news again!

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Nonprofit Technology News for November 2013

Tech Soup

We are testing it out at hackathons this month in San Francisco and also in Sarajevo in Bosnia. The report also has a mix of tools that are in use to directly to improve lives, and also tools that increase efficiency within organizations that will trickle down to its beneficiaries. Images: TechSoup Global and Nominet Trust.

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