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Hurricane Sandy Art Relief: An Interview with Elana Haviv

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After 9/11, she spearheaded an art-based CMCE 9/11 Trauma Relief Project in the New York City schools. She also pioneered art-based healing programs in post-war Bosnia. Elana designed The Telling History Project: Understanding the Past to Create the Future , a curriculum to teach students about human rights.

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Upwardly Global: Bridging the Opportunity Gap for Skilled Immigrants

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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. Currently operating in Chicago, New York, the San Francisco Bay Area, and Silver Spring, Maryland, Upwardly Global also supports clients across the U.S.

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Hackathons for Good: Techies, Thinkers, and Activists Unite

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The Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) has also held a few hackathons with the New York Public Library. Serbia) in partnership with TechSoup Global and Zasto ne (Bosnia and Herzegovina). The events bring together young adults with disabilities and companies that develop accessibility solutions. The ReStart Challenges.

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Win 2 Tickets to the Global Fund for Women 20th Anniversary Gala

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If you are excited about GFW's work, take a moment to enter their raffle for a chance to win two free tickets to their 20th anniversay gala fundraiser in New York City on June 5th. Ann Curry, News Anchor for The Today Show , and Co-Anchor of Dateline NBC will emcee.

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Nonprofit Technology News for May 2014

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Our TechSoup Global partners there are also working hard on disaster relief in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia through the Community Boost r program and also a project called Mapa Poplava. The New York City-based nonprofit Spare Change is developing a smartphone app that will soon launch. An App To End World Hunger?

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Solutionary Women: Heddy Nam

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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. When I returned to the US, I founded the USA chapter in New York City with long-time Never Again member, Marian Hodgkin from the UK.

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