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Data Digest: African Students Using Open Data, Social Impact Bonds, Digital Smoke Signals, and the Data Dilemma

Tech Soup

This week we learn about the Resilient Africa Network (RAN), which is helping African students use open data for disaster relief. It harnesses locally based solutions to decrease the effects of disasters and rehabilitate communities in disaster-prone areas. It was originally published on NetSquared.

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5 Games Supporting Nonprofits’s Missions, from Low-Tech to High-Tech

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Games’ strength is not showing “this is the problem, and here is the answer,” but to broaden players’ perspectives, build engagement, and ask “what are some ways we could address this?” The Senate Immersion Module will launch in Boston in March, at the opening of the EMK Institute.

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Good Ram Gone Bad On My Dell Desktop: OMG

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Oh, I've had problems before, but only minor hardware failures and crashes because I have a duo-RAID hard drive. I always seem to have computer problems before important presentations (see here and here ). It looks like one of the ram sockets on the motherboard is fried. I don't need this to happen to me.

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Compliance And Risk Management In Today's Business World

Eric Jacobsen Blog

It''s at the heart of many of the most newsworthy disasters and bad outcomes that have occurred in the business world and elsewhere. Yarin lives near Boston, Massachusetts with his fiancée and two children. It''s almost as though we''re "playing with the odds" until something bad happens. safety, quality). Yarin : Yes 9.

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The 2016 Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar

EveryAction

AFP / Boston, MA / Price varies. The Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship is the premier international platform for advancing entrepreneurial approaches and solutions to the world’s most pressing problems. EverTrue / Boston, MA / $300. AIDF Global Disaster Relief Summit. AIDF Global Disaster Relief Summit.

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Tech Policies for Virtual Teams: A Leader’s Responsibility

Non Profit Quarterly

The problem they had was they didn’t really have policies to really govern and guide their staff towards effectively transitioning. We’ve covered some cloud-based apps that have had data problems where your own data is compromised because of a vendor. I think that’s something that some people overlook. Jeanne Bell: Great.

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Small Groups Can Change the World: An Interview with Marianne Manilov of The Engage Network

Have Fun - Do Good

He'd been going around the country looking at everything from disaster sites, to CEOs of corporations, and seeing how people were empowered from the ground up. We want to take it to scale and see what the problems are that we come up with at scale in these three programs: What's Your Tree?, Off the Mat, and Green For All.

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