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Weekly update from PND

Candid

Launched in 2019 as a joint project of the Milken Institute Center for Strategic Philanthropy and the Sergey Brin Family Foundation , ASAP supports collaboration, open science, and early data sharing at scale, with a focus on three areas: PD functional genomics , neuro-immune interactions , and circuitry and brain-body interactions.

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Nonprofits Who are Making A Difference Through Play

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Its strategic partnership with Electronic Arts has enabled GlassLab to develop SimCityEDU, a game-based classroom tool that uses the beloved SimCity franchise to engage students in real-world challenges. Don’t run to play Mario just yet though — the game has to be specially designed to fill in lapses in brain activity from the start!

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Data and Storytelling: 6 Ways to Use Data to Move Your Mission

NTEN

In this example info-graphic from David McCandles, he was inspired by Clay Shirky's claim that the world has an enormous ‘cognitive surplus' - untapped hours that we could be using our brains, but simply are not. They don't take an “everything and kitchen sink” approach to providing tools that can manipulate the data.

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10X: CEO’s Update: Spring 2014

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Technology currently serves privileged groups through tools that provide access to education, literacy, health, and justice. Moreover, we recently held a two-day workshop in New York City, bringing together a wide range of activists and funders, developing a model we plan to replicate around the world.

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Data and Storytelling: 6 Ways to Use Data to Move Your Mission

Forum One

In this example info-graphic from David McCandles, he was inspired by Clay Shirky’s claim that the world has an enormous ‘cognitive surplus’ - untapped hours that we could be using our brains, but simply are not. Let User’s Explore, Discover, and Control. Let’s look at another example of this in practice.

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Data and Story Telling: 6 Ways to Use Data to Move Your Mission

Forum One

In this example info-graphic from David McCandles, he was inspired by Clay Shirky’s claim that the world has an enormous ‘cognitive surplus’ - untapped hours that we could be using our brains, but simply are not. Let User’s Explore, Discover, and Control. Let’s look at another example of this in practice.

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It's almost time for #11NTC - See you there?

Judi Sohn

. (#11NTCbrand) Social Media and Contact Relationship Management – the New Mix (1:30-3 pm Friday) - Ironic that I'm writing about this session as I'm watching the live feed o f Salesforce making social media announcements in New York City. It's the new shiny. I love it.

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