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Fighting for Civic Transparency with Technology in the Western Balkans

Tech Soup

Through technology, data, and resource-sharing, Community Boost_r seeks to empower Balkan citizens to voice their opinions, demand solutions to everyday problems, and stay informed on accountability and transparency issues. is a site where citizens can report government and community problems and anonymously. From Serbia.

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Use Social Media to Reel in Big Fish Donors

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Both free and fee-based resources to find out more about them are plentiful online. An organization dedicated to “never again” a genocide — such as those in Europe, Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia, and Darfur — must raise awareness and advocate with as much energy as it raises money. No problem.

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Hackathons for Good: Techies, Thinkers, and Activists Unite

Tech Soup

" More Hackathon Resources. Here are even more hackathon resources from TechSoup and beyond: Want to host your own hackathon? This wiki can be a first step in providing those developers with information about the problems that can benefit from their support. TechSoup's Hacker Helper can get you started.

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Nonprofit Technology News for November 2013

Tech Soup

The tool will allow hackers and coders to get up to speed before the hackathon by reading problem statements written from the perspective of the people who are working to solve social problems on the ground: NGOs and activists. They can go straight to work to create useful apps and other tools for solving social problems.

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Solutionary Women: Heddy Nam

Have Fun - Do Good

This project will tackle big questions such as: What are the most pressing human rights problems in our world? 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. They would rather opt for MTV.

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