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President's Update

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

For example, I'm planning on going to India and Bangladesh next month for the first time, and to Uganda and Sudan next year. If you know some brilliant developers who want to actually get paid to change the world, put them in touch with us. Our initial focus is on serving people with cognitive disabilities who want to learn to read.

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Peace Games & International Efforts

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Do you we teach coders the basic tenets of public diplomancy or vice versa? We announced a contest to create a game to address issue in Sudan. A way to test strategies for nonviolent strategies and action for change. How does it work for social change. Those people come back and have greater depth of understanding.

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How They Did It: LWB Wins Facebook Causes Giving Challenge - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

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From teaching supporters how to create Facebook accounts to ol fashioned door-to-door fundraising, Amy Eldridge from LWB, an admitted Facebook newbie, says its as much the offline as the online work that gets the job done. LWB had to teach their members how to sign-up for Facebook and donate to their cause. How did they do it?

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How They Did It: LWB Wins Facebook Causes Giving Challenge - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

From teaching supporters how to create Facebook accounts to ol fashioned door-to-door fundraising, Amy Eldridge from LWB, an admitted Facebook newbie, says its as much the offline as the online work that gets the job done. LWB had to teach their members how to sign-up for Facebook and donate to their cause. How did they do it?

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Interview with Zainab Salbi, Founder of Women for Women International

Have Fun - Do Good

She goes through an intensive training program in an educational track, that teaches her about her rights as a woman in health, economy, society, and politics, among other things. I just came from a meeting where I was told that the women we are servicing in Southern Sudan are earning double the per capita income in that country.