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

Saleforce Nonprofit

But as we know, getting to Zero Hunger will take collaboration from all regions, with multiple approaches to address the contributing factors. This Impact Lab cohort sets out to address the question: How might we enable female, small-scale farmers in maximizing food production and planning proactively? Why Small-Scale Farmers?

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CEO’s Update: Fall 2014

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

More and more of my time is spent around both raising money and raising awareness of how much more could be done with technology to increase social impact. First, I’ll cover our biggest fundraising effort of the year: individual philanthropy is crucial to us; it’s the portion that makes 10X impact possible!

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NetSquared Events to Cure Your Social Media Ailments

Tech Soup

A social media surgery is an informal gathering of people who want to learn how to use the web to communicate, campaign, or collaborate. NetSquared Zambia in Lusaka, Zambia. Portland, Oregon: Low-Cost, High-Impact Technology Tools. However, our organizers are currently very keen on social media surgeries. Louis, Missouri.

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Is There a Community of #Tech4Good Activists Waiting for You?

Tech Soup

Brooklyn, New York: The Happy, Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact Without Burnout. Boston, Massachusetts: TNB Roundtable: How Nonprofits Can Use Facebook to Broadcast Their Impact. Naples, Florida: Google Drive: Tips and Tricks for Collaboration and Productivity. Lusaka, Zambia: Social Media Surgery.

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Empowering Refugees: Interview with Kjerstin Erickson of FORGE

Have Fun - Do Good

FORGE uses a collaborative, rather than top-down model, to serve refugees' needs, and much has been written in the blogosphere and media about Erickson's "radical transparency" around the organization's financial challenges. You use a process that on your website was described as the, "collaborative project planning process."

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All Facets of the Impact Investing Field at SOCAP16

Connection Cafe

At the forefront of strategies is impact investing. From the plenary speech alone, it was clear how much the impact investing field has evolved. Access to capital has been growing over the past ten years, and international collaboration is increasing in order to build a stronger infrastructure to support impact investing.

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