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A NetSquared Happy Holidays

Tech Soup

Our events are powered by a global network of volunteers dedicated to building strong, self-sufficient, local communities of nonprofit technology practitioners. So give your local organizer a hug next time you see them! Boston, Massachusetts: DataBasic Intro Workshop — Learn 3 New Tools for Finding Stories in Data.

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Taking Local Currency Digital: A New Experiment Emerges

Non Profit Quarterly

a local currency issuer. Then as now, the idea behind BerkShares was to galvanize residents in Pittsfield, Great Barrington, and surrounding areas to purchase more goods and services locally. The local currency could be converted into US dollars but is designed to be spent directly in the area. The experiment proved successful.

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Solutionary Women: Anna Lappé of Grub

Have Fun - Do Good

In addition to co-authoring Grub with Bryant Terry, Anna also co-authored Hope's Edge with her mother Frances Moore Lappé and is a co-founder, with her mother, of the Small Planet Fund , and a founding principal of the Small Planet Institute , based in Cambridge Massachusetts.