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Weekly update from PND

Candid

Bloomberg Philanthropies has announced a $31 million investment in the Partnership for Healthy Cities and the addition of six cities to the initiative to create safer and healthier urban environments: Bucharest, Romania; Cairo, Egypt; Córdoba, Argentina; Dublin, Ireland; Greater Manchester, United Kingdom; and Warsaw, Poland.

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Spotlight on Social Media, Crowdsourced Translation, Egyptian Protests and Diplomacy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

From Crisis Mapping Egypt: Collection of Maps. My colleagues at SMEX Beirut had in mind when they posted this request, “ Free World: Speak Up For A Free Egypt ,&# a call to action to the world from Egyptian activists – originally posted here from @manal and @alaa.

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TechSoup Global Cloud Survey Results and Cloud Donations for Nonprofits

Tech Soup

It bears mentioning that the executive summary of our findings (in several languages) and full report (in English) are available at no cost to everyone. Find out a bit more about what we discovered from our report or my colleague, Patrick Duggan’s blog post. The survey was fielded in February and March 2012.

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Can Social Media Create and Spread Revolution?

Care2

The political uprisings in Egypt for the past week have sparked the tiresome debate again – can social media create and spread revolution? There have also been reports of the government cutting off mobile carriers. “It's actually been interesting to watch as a case study in the enduring power of traditional media.

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: Research Friday: Social Media is all.

ASU Lodestar Center

As part of a continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit expert from our academic faculty to highlight a research report or study and discuss how it can inform and improve day-to-day nonprofit practice. 1] In the report, the authors describe five trends that will dramatically alter how the social sector functions.

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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. The most populous Muslim country is Indonesia , followed by India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nigeria, and Egypt. Dara Westling.

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TechSoup Global NGO Cloud Survey: What We Found Out and What to Do About It Part Two

Tech Soup

We released our report on the 2012 TechSoup Global NGO Cloud Survey in September of 2012 and have now had a few months to ponder the findings and talk to several of you about what you think of them. This is surprising because the lower-per-capita-GDP countries in our survey reported facing serious obstacles in moving to the cloud.

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