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Is it a movement or a moment?

Candid

Movements often involve a rallying cry, a widely recognized iconography, often a color (think pink for breast cancer), meaningful dates, repeated activities (from Freedom Rides to annual walks), and a shared goal for the common good. Their development was shepherded by one of the largest, most global organizations out there.

Hunger 101
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Data for Global Health, Part II

Forum One

A couple of weeks ago a group of Seattle global health data experts met at the Seattle Biomedical Research Institute to continue a conversation we started earlier this year on global health data. how do you evaluate the health significance of "one glass of rice wine per day" in China vs. Japan?).

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Nonprofit Technology News for November 2013

Tech Soup

mobile payment system in Kenya that allows people there to text each other money. Charity Digital News , Wired , and several other UK tech publications recently reported on Nominet Trust 100 , or NT100, which is a new comprehensive global list of promising applications of digital technology for social good. All Things D.

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Ari Derfel & Eric Fenster, Back to Earth Podcast Interview Transcription

Have Fun - Do Good

We did a program called "We Can Surmount" which is like the AIDS ride, which was taking people who had been cancer survivors or affected by cancer, on to wilderness journeys. And if you liked the opening music, it was an excerpt from Kenya Masala's "Mango Delight". being really aware of our, really aware of our, of our impacts.

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Nonprofit Technology News for March 2014

Tech Soup

We have another date for the end of the global digital divide! Way back in August I posed the somewhat rhetorical question: Will Facebook’s Internet.org Bridge the Global Digital Divide? My current favorite digital inclusion NGO is our newest TechSoup Global partner, Computers For Schools Kenya. Digital Inclusion.

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Big Vision Podcast: Interview with llyse Hogue Rainforest Action Network

Have Fun - Do Good

The newest Big Vision podcast is up , and it is an interview with Ilyse Hogue, the Global Finance Campaign Director for the Rainforest Action Network and one of the founders of SmartMeme , a non-profit collective of long term organizers, strategists, trainers and communications professionals. you know, I thought, "Wow!

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