Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 3, 2009

This weekend, I made my first educational microloan, to Claudia Belén García Royz of Nicaragua, who is studying to be an industrial engineer. This is what I think about when I dream about Raising the Floor with technology: finding ways to meet society's most pressing problems with the brains and resources of the tech community.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 13, 2009

So when Angie Milton, a Forum One Project Officer, decided to take a six-month sabbatical to volunteer in Nicaragua, we realized that it was time for us to eat our own dog food. Angie is already blogging regularly about her work for the San Juan del Sur Sister City Project in Nicaragua. Give it a read at fieldnotes.forumone.com.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 15, 2009

The organization helps Himalayan communities, "achieve their unique visions of sustainable living through science/engineering education and infrastructure development." Kjerstin founded FORGE , an organization that works with displaced communities in Africa, when she was 20 in 2003. Cross-posted from BlogHer.com.

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AFP Blog

AUGUST 28, 2008

Idealistic students who wanted to give back to their community used to volunteer with food drives, homeless shelters or community centers. Now, a co-ed can go online and donate to a poor entrepreneur in Nicaragua with the click of a mouse.The Internet has spiked awareness of. Charity was once very localized.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 24, 2007

And in those communities high school is a luxury, so the local school in the local community typically goes through sixth grade. Three hundred dollars a year is a huge barrier for kids in this community, and kids all over the developing world. So, this community got organized. It sounds pretty cheap to you and me.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2007

Use Your Nonprofit Blog to Create Your Own Media Coverage When the men accused of murdering Gwen Araujo, a woman they beat, bound and strangled after they discovered that she was biologically male, went to trial, the Community United Against Violence decided to use a blog to document the trial.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 2, 2013

Wildlife SOS works toward protecting Indian wildlife, conserving habitat, studying biodiversity, conducting research and creating alternative and sustainable livelihoods for erstwhile poacher communities. Vital Voices works with extraordinary women leaders accelerating peace and prosperity in their communities. FINCA :: @ FINCA.

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