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Stick To Our Knitting? What Is TechSoup?

Tech Soup

Its award-winning apps help underserved youth find meals and a safe space, facilitate safe shelter for abuse and trafficking survivors, and deploy volunteers to time-sensitive community needs. More than 80 such projects are available on the platform with open-source code to enable replication.

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Four Social Media Fundraising Tools

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I'm limiting my scope to those that do something new or interesting to facilitate actual donations. I think this tool would be particularly effective following a disaster or other unexpected event - just like the very similar mechanism in text message donations. I'm completely unbiased though, don't worry.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Voting Deadline at Netsquared Extended, NTC Pipe, and More

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

" Rolf Kleef has looked over the list to identify " facilitator projects " that give people the tools to improve their own situation in their own way. Open Source Software is Fair Trade ! Zen and the art of nonprofit technology wonders about Open Source Feminism.

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Day 1: Connecting Up Conference: Brisbane, Australia

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

How would you organization cope with a natural disaster? Disaster Relief: Described their efforts for Tsunami and Katrina and mentioned efforts for Burma and China. Valued open-source software that is cheap, flexible, easy and multi-featured. With so much information coming out, how we can get our message out and heard?

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Crowdsourcing: Measuring the Impact of the Crowd in Funding and Doing

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I’ve had the pleasure working with Diana Scearce , from Monitor Institute, who has been facilitating and weaving this network. Social media tools for engaging and capturing the work of crowds include: wikis, custom platforms or web sites that facilitate voting, rating, giving feedback, adding content, or funding.

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Data Digest: Global Open Data Initiative, OpenData Latinoamérica, Big Data for Disaster Response

Tech Soup

Facilitating global literacy about Big Data is viewed as important for the media, civic hackers, and civil society. How open data is transforming democracy in Africa – and the challenges it face s. Big Data for Disaster Response: A List of Wrong Assumptions. Open Source disaster recovery data big data'