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Please Join VisionLink In Welcoming Aaron Titus To Our Proud Family!

VisionLink

As the new Disaster Product Manager for VisionLink, Aaron comes from an extensive and distinguished background. As a former member of the New Jersey Voluntary Organizations Active in Disasters (NJ VOAD), Aaron coordinated Hurricane Sandy and Irene response efforts for Mormon Helping Hands. Aaron Titus received his J.D.

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Announcing the Third Impact Lab on Climate Justice

Saleforce Nonprofit

Our first Impact Lab cohort designed Service Match , an open-source app designed for case managers who connect people experiencing homelessness to vital human services. Today, people of color and low-income communities are more likely to be impacted by natural disasters, live close to hazardous waste, and die of environmental causes.

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Philanthropy and Social Media: New Whitepaper from The Institute for Philanthropy

Amy Sample Ward

The real-time web has also revolutionized the way we support local communities in disaster. Ushahidi, an open source project originally deployed in Kenya to report post-election violence has since been downloaded and deployed for many other events and disasters, including Haiti, Chile, and Japan.

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How an Effective Partner Ecosystem Strives for Collaboration Over Competition

Saleforce Nonprofit

OFM: A Model for Partner Participation in Open Source Community Projects. Are we doing enough on the front end to prevent personal and professional disasters from happening? Lorenzo has over ten years of experience in public policy, government, talent pipeline development, diversity, and inclusion.

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Veterans Leverage Their Pro Bono Skills to Rise to the Call of Duty from Afar

Saleforce Nonprofit

When the Afghanistan government fell to the Taliban just days after the U.S. Allied Airlift is made up of veterans and volunteers who scoured open source intelligence reports to provide Afghan allies with critical information necessary to find a place aboard one of the limited U.S. Government. Meanwhile, back in the U.S.,

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Data Digest: From Presidential Campaigns to Social Good

Tech Soup

Examples of open government data reuse in US by private corporations and nonprofits is also highlighted and a webinar to help those that also want to use it is being hosted this month. Open Government Data. 7 Ways Companies Are Using the Government's Open Data. Image: Edgeflip logo.

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Stick To Our Knitting? What Is TechSoup?

Tech Soup

In a recent blog post , in which our nonprofit, TechSoup, advocated for Net Neutrality, there were several responses that have an interestingly identical structure: (a) Government should stay out of the Internet; (b) There are technical issues involved that TechSoup does not understand; and. (c)

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