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Dancing for Peace: Big Vision Podcast with Sara Potler

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Dance 4 Peace began in Bogotá, Colombia as part of Sara's Fulbright Scholarship project in 2007. New York City, Colombia, the Philippines, and Nepal. Today, the program works in Washington, D.C., You can listen and subscribe to the Big Vision Podcast via iTunes , or on the player above.

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The Steep Challenges of Philanthropy to the Muslim World

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I also liked the work we did a few years ago to support telecentres in poor communities affected by civil war in Colombia. Nadia Roumani from Stanford University's Hasso Plattner Institute of Design agreed with Shahed Amanullah, talking about being brave and taking design risks and possible mistakes.

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NpTechTag Summary: NpTech Events, Twitters, and Green Web Hosting

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Global NpTech: African Civil Society to Colombia Saidia.Org Blog is gathering stories about Web2.0 and African civil society for Web2 for Dev Nancy White is doing workshops in Colombia. Fundraising and Philanthropy There was lots of praise about Amy Luckey of Blueprint Research and Design's recent article called " Grantmaking 2.0:

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President's Update: Summer 2008

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Benetech's newest project is a software tool called Miradi that helps environmental practitioners design, manage, monitor and learn from their projects to more effectively meet the needs of global biodiversity. You can visit our Colombia Project Page to read more about this work.

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Support Women Survivors of War with $27/month

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They enrolled in special job skills classes designed to meet the market needs of their community. T he program works in Afghanistan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Colombia, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Iraq, Kosovo, Nigeria, Rwanda and Sudan. In small groups, the women learned basic business and marketing skills.

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