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Upwardly Global: Bridging the Opportunity Gap for Skilled Immigrants

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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. 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.

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Nonprofit Technology News for November 2013

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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. also reports some news that effect libraries.

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Nonprofit Technology News for May 2014

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nonprofit organization is invited to post their technology project on the website. Organizations first go through a process of ‘scoping’ their project with TechBridge staff to determine the cost of the project. He doesn’t run an organization; He's the digital media manager at Pathways to Education in Toronto.

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Nonprofit Technology News for May 2013: Free WiFi in Forbes Magazine and Braille Phones

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It's mind boggling how something like this could be harnessed for digital inclusion and social sector organizations. We sincerely invite your nonprofit or library tech news nominations. It's apparently a real WiFi router that will connect as many as five devices. Accessibility. This is technology for good news from India.

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"Books of Conscience" to Read During Genocide Prevention Month

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According to the Genocide Prevention Month's site , the genocide in Bosnia began April 6, in Rwanda April 7, in Cambodia April 17, in Darfur April 19, in Armenia April 24, and the Holocast began April 21st. Did you know that six genocides began in the month of April?

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Nonprofit Technology News for April 2013

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Fundacja TechSoup in Poland, in a close partnership with Dokukino and other local organizations from the Western Balkans, has launched open challenges for the best technology-based social projects that address transparency and accountability issues in the the Bosnia and Hercegovina, Kosovo, and Serbia. Very, very cool, I must say.

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