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Case Study: How One Organization Raised over $500K through Millennials

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LiNK (Liberty in North Korea). is a human rights organization that physically rescues North Korean refugees and helps resettle them in South Korea or the United States so they can avoid being forcibly repatriated back to North Korea, where they can face harsh punishments as a result of illegally immigrating.

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Mobile Storytelling: An Evolving Story

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Why are they the same size as the person whom I casually had a short conversation with at a conference I don’t even remember? When I showed Google Earth for the first time to my dad on an iPad, the first thing he did was to look for the house he grew up in, deep in North Korea, having left it behind some 60 years ago during the Korean War.

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Mr. Jim Goes to Washington (and New York, and Nairobi, and Seoul, and Kampala, and Boston…)

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

I led a conversation on what big data is going to mean for social entrepreneurs. This time I had three agenda items for my conversations with congressional staff: Advocating for funding for special education. Bookshare was there with two offers. A nice reminder of why we do this work! Half Moon Bay, California After 2.5

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