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12 Early Adopters of the.NGO and.ONG Domains

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Mission: To help eradicate extreme poverty through community development projects in urban sanitation, water filtration, health, alternative energy, and economic empowerment. Project 1948 Foundation ● project1948.ngo. Mission: To foster peace among young adults through the arts in post-war Bosnia-Herzegovina. United States.

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Hurricane Sandy Art Relief: An Interview with Elana Haviv

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Elana designed The Telling History Project: Understanding the Past to Create the Future , a curriculum to teach students about human rights. 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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Fighting for Civic Transparency with Technology in the Western Balkans

Tech Soup

The goal was to find the best web or mobile ideas for social projects in Kosovo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Serbia. The submitted projects were shared in a project gallery on the Community Boost_r website where the public could vote on their favorite project. Šta se može uraditi?

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Hackathons for Good: Techies, Thinkers, and Activists Unite

Tech Soup

A hackathon is an event where programmers, developers, designers, and leaders come together to collaborate on an app, website, or software projects. The hackathon model is ideal for nonprofits and libraries because it brings together motivated volunteers to expedite a project on a limited budget. or Code for Oakland ).

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Nonprofit Technology News for May 2014

Tech Soup

The First Crowdfunding Platform for Nonprofit Technology Projects. The tech support nonprofit, TechBridge in Georgia, has launched the first crowdfunding platform for nonprofit technology projects. nonprofit organization is invited to post their technology project on the website. Find more on this project here.

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Nonprofit Technology News for November 2013

Tech Soup

The project is soft launching this month, and going public in March 2014. The project was originally funded by Microsoft for the Transforming Communities of Practice grant. Hackathons are most often fast projects that last one to three days. This project aims to speed up cancer research. TechSoup Technologies for Good.

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

Tech Soup

The phone is a project of Sumit Dagar and the Indian Institute of Technology. The ideas submission process started last week and will be followed by online conversations, online community voting, jury voting, and a hackathons for the best projects in each of the countries.

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