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Announcing Our Second Impact Labs Cohort on Zero Hunger: Supporting Small-Scale Farmers Globally

Saleforce Nonprofit

Impact Labs convenes community experts, or fellows, across sectors to co-create new technology solutions to support specific issue areas, including homelessness , equity in education , and climate justice. Each of these groups provided insights into the challenge, determined a focus area where technology can help, and developed a solution.

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Great reads from around the web on June 29th

Amy Sample Ward

That was the logic Lauren Bush Lauren articulated in a 2013 interview about FEED, a for-profit entity she founded that creates simple, eco-friendly tote bags whose price covers the cost of donating school meals to children in Rwanda via the UN World Food Program” What Solutions Are Hiding In Our PDFS? :

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Thank You for the Best Birthday Ever!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Like the children in the orphanage managed by the Sharing Foundation who celebrate their birthday on the same day once a year, it felt like everyone was having a birthday today ! . I met Spencer Brodsky last December when he was doing a fundraiser campaign for his project in Rwanda. And connected with Mark Horvath.

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Deadline Approaching for $10,000 Pizzigati Prize

Tech Soup

The winner will be announced at the next Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC) in April 2012. The system is used by hospitals around the world to better diagnose patients, like a hospital in Rwanda that was able to identify HIV-positive children who had not been picked up by the pediatric program to get them on life-saving treatment.

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Empowering Women Citizen Journalists: An Interview with Cristi Hegranes

Have Fun - Do Good

"Now, 18 months later, all of Juana's children are in school. For example, when women have this kind of specific skill-set training, they are more likely to have less children, to keep the children they do have in school, to be able to provide access to medical care, and things like that. She had four children.

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7 Things I learned From #Beth53 Fundraiser and PoST Class

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

For example, I noticed that Spencer Brodsky , who I helped last December when he was doing a fundraiser campaign for his project in Rwanda, re-tweeting the birthday call to action. After the class, she shared the story with her three children (above) who rallied together and made a contribution to the Sharing Foundation!

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Why Women Are the Market for Changing the World, and How to Reach Them: Interview with The She Spot co-author, Lisa Witter

Have Fun - Do Good

MoveOn.org was one of the first organizations that really pioneered this with technology. I learn about women in Rwanda, and they learn about my life. Well, I have two small children; two and five months. I read children's books a lot. I grew up in Seattle, so technology wasn't a new thing to me.