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Hurricane Sandy Art Relief: An Interview with Elana Haviv

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

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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. Favorite is also a student at the Kigali Health Institute and will graduate this year.She was born in the south of Rwanda and the genocide started one month after she turned five years old.

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Hackathons for Good: Techies, Thinkers, and Activists Unite

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meets LinkedIn for students. Microsoft's International Women's Hackathon challenged female developers to combat issues like human trafficking through new mobile apps and web programs. Serbia) in partnership with TechSoup Global and Zasto ne (Bosnia and Herzegovina). 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. That’d definitely put a dent in the $143 billion price tag that the UN Development Program estimates it would take to end world hunger.

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Solutionary Women: Heddy Nam

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Coming from a background in developing and implementing programs, it was a challenge to shift to the operations side of the non-profit world. 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.

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