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Legacy of Hope Austin: Dreams for Kids with Special Needs

Tech Soup

" As a mother of eight, including two children with special needs, Carr knew that "families with children that have special needs often can't afford basic programs such as sports, arts, dance lessons, or other services that many families take for granted. Birth of Dreams: Creative Expression for Kids.

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9 Amazing Organizations Share Their Tech Success

Tech Soup

Legacy of Hope Austin is a Texas-based arts charity that's created the 2dance2dream program , providing a way for children with special needs to express themselves through movement and music. The program offers year-round dance lessons and an annual event in which 80 children are joined by volunteers from professional dance schools.

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How Office 365 Helps Caring Partners Support At-Risk Youth

Tech Soup

Caring Partners has a powerful goal: to keep children and young adults in their homes, at their schools, and out of trouble. Caring Partners' Intranet platform was previously hosted by WebOffice through Cisco. When they learned that Cisco was ending support for WebOffice , they looked for an alternative. spanhidden.

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Nonprofit Technology News for March 2014

Tech Soup

The web introduced publicly viewable web pages that include text, images, and sounds. I just had a chance to chat with Dr. Tom Musili who runs that incredible NGO to find out what all they’re doing to bring the knowledge economy to school children and electronics recycling to Africa. Image one: courtesy of Wello.

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Microsoft's Fight Against Child Porn

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NetHope is the organization of the CTOs/CIOs of the major global humanitarian NGOs, and gets a fair amount of support from Microsoft, Cisco and other tech companies. But, the images are slightly different in many of these cases: they are the same image, but not the exact same image file.

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