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The Steep Challenges of Philanthropy to the Muslim World

Tech Soup

to report on Tech for Good trends and also to find out how things are going in one of the most challenging areas of philanthropy: providing much needed help and support to people in the Muslim world. I also liked the work we did a few years ago to support telecentres in poor communities affected by civil war in Colombia. Dara Westling.

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President's Update: Summer 2008

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Our HumanRights team, including Benetech Research Fellow Amelia Hoover and fieldconsultants Tamy Guberek and Daniel Guzmán, presented our initial findings on violations in Colombia to an enthusiastic audience of ICC investigators and analysts. You can visit our Colombia Project Page to read more about this work.

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Drive Attention and Gain Donations on Facebook with Video Storytelling

NonProfit Hub

During Facebook’s Q4 2016 earnings call, Zuckerberg himself said that he sees video “ as a mega trend on the same order as mobile.” Our news feeds will have more and more video in them as this mega-trend continues. We now live in a video-first world, in large part due to Mark Zuckerberg.