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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. Based on the number of votes, seven projects from each country were chosen.

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Upwardly Global: Bridging the Opportunity Gap for Skilled Immigrants

Tech Soup

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. 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.

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Hackathons for Good: Techies, Thinkers, and Activists Unite

Tech Soup

The hackathon model is ideal for nonprofits and libraries because it brings together motivated volunteers to expedite a project on a limited budget. The Digital Public Library of America held a hackathon to test the prototype DPLA platform and build apps for it. or Code for Oakland ). Hackathons for Social Good. Library Hackathons.

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Nonprofit Technology News for November 2013

Tech Soup

Hacker Helper is a free online tool that will allow volunteer developers to prepare for hackathons. The project is soft launching this month, and going public in March 2014. We are testing it out at hackathons this month in San Francisco and also in Sarajevo in Bosnia. TechSoup Technologies for Good. Hacker Helper.

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Nonprofit Technology News for May 2014

Tech Soup

It also allows individuals to log into the app and see which charities close by need either financial or volunteer help. 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.

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Interview with Zainab Salbi, Founder of Women for Women International

Have Fun - Do Good

This is our own form of public diplomacy, where women are reaching out to each other despite all of their boundaries, or their differences, or whatever, and looking at their connections and similarities. We work in countries like Congo, Rwanda, Sudan, Iraq, Afghanistan, Bosnia, Kosovo, among others. You get her picture.