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AI For Good: How 3 Nonprofits Grew Their Impact With Machine Learning

Global Giving

Here’s what the collaboration helped these organizations achieve: 1. Kiva applies the power of AI to make financial support accessible. Through their crowdfunding platform, the nonprofit Kiva makes it possible for more people to access loans to start a small business, invest in their farm, or pay for school.

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Share Files and Collaborate Online with Box

Tech Soup

Box.org provides organizations with the Box file-sharing, content management, and collaboration service. You can use Box's cloud-based storage and collaboration tools to replace traditional on-premises file servers and traditional file-sharing processes. TechSoup is proud to announce our newest donor partner, Box.org.

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Will the Sharing Economy Catalyze New Forms of Philanthropy?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In March, Airbnb announced a plan “ Shared City ,” a multi-faceted collaboration designed to give back to the communities it serves — beginning with the city of Portland, Ore. What do we see emerging? Here’s one small example. and expected to be rolled out to cities around the world.

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Socialbrite: Social Tools for Social Change

Amy Sample Ward

She is currently a Kiva fellow serving a three-month tour in a rural section of the Philippines. Collaboration is the key to success, in everything really,” said Amy Sample Ward, an Oregonian now living in London who heads up London Net Tuesday and collaborates with others to create local opportunities to share and learn. “I

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A Couple of Do Good iPhone Apps

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Another iPhone application is Give Work , a collaborative effort by CrowdFlower, a professional crowdsourcing service provider, and Samasource , a non-profit organization that trains youths and refugees to use computers, and by extension to find sustainable employment. Put another way, an iPhone application to put thumbs to good use.

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SOCAP: The Market at the Intersection of Money and Meaning

Tech Soup

Kiva is a San Francisco based crowd-funding microfinance nonprofit that allows just under a million people to make little micro-loans to poor people around the world. Kiva is a classic nonprofit social enterprise that relies mainly on earned revenues rather than grants or donations. I chatted with my old friend, Bennett Grassano.

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Social Innovation Camp at MPS09

Amy Sample Ward

We do this through scouting and in the weekends as they are high pressure and fund and collaborative so you can really, really see how people work. What can we do with groups like Kiva? But, as a support organization that knows you are an interesting implementer of good stuff, it’s easier to make the decision to support them.

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