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2020 Cause Awareness & Giving Day Calendar for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

4: World Cancer Day — #WorldCancerDay. 19: World Pancreatic Cancer Day — #WPCD20. Now in its fourth edition, this year’s report provides technology benchmarks for Africa, Asia, Australia and New Zealand, Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, and the United States and Canada. 19: World Religion Day — #WorldReligionDay.

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How to Apply Service Design to the Social Sector

Forum One

Social sector service design is fairly well established in Europe and is increasingly growing in the U.S.—especially One specific goal was to reduce the waiting time for patients to receive an examination and diagnosis for breast cancer.

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Charity Develops New Crowdfunding Platform - Tech Europe - WSJ

AFP Blog

Charity Develops New Crowdfunding Platform - Tech Europe - WSJ : U.K. blood cancer charity Leukemia and Lymphoma Research is attempting to turn one of the main traditional means of fundraising on its head.

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5 Expert Tips for a Successful Salesforce Migration

Saleforce Nonprofit

The Canadian Cancer Society is an organization that had to do just that. She previously worked at the World Bank on education policy in Eastern Europe and founded Skill for Kids — a non-profit based in Mongolia. It’s also important to create a timeline for the implementation, but don’t be frustrated if you have to make changes to it.

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Nonprofit Technology News for November 2013

Tech Soup

Cell Slider , which is a crowdsourced online tool for cancer research that challenges the ponderous cancer research establishment. This is an astonishing technology for good in which large numbers of ordinary people analyze photos of cells cultures to identify irregular shaped cancer cell cores.

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Is Privacy for Everyone (Including Donors) Dead?

Bloomerang

Nick Bilton, a tech columnist for The New York Times , wrote that we could find ourselves in a situation where a medical AI that is programmed to eliminate cancer decides that the way to do it is by exterminating humans who are prone to the disease. It is the world’s first attempt at regulating and protecting data.

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Balancing People, Profit & Planet: An Interview with Reem Rahim of Numi Tea

Have Fun - Do Good

My brother had teahouses in Europe, so he was really the tea, sort of, aficionado. My brother, at the time, he was working in Europe, and Rooibos and Honeybush were very popular there and here nobody had ever heard of them. We started just the two of us, and we are about 40 employees currently, from all over the Bay Area. He still is.

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