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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. Our network partner in Indonesia runs Kitabisa.com ("We can"), a Kickstarter-like crowdfunding platform.

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#4Change Chat Wrap-Up: Community Building

Amy Sample Ward

Our “job&# is to facilitate that action and make it easier for them to participate. Inspire, empower and facilitate to take action. Successful and Unsuccessful Examples: From @davidahood: Greenpeace internationally had great success recently with the Nestle campaign getting Nestle to end deforestation in Indonesia for palm oil.

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Unlocking Data for Philanthropy: Notes from Global Philanthropy Forum Session

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Jacob Harold, Guidestar , shared some thoughts to this question, “What are the basic building blocks to facilitate better access to data?” They recently launched lab in Indonesia and started to hear through social media chatter that vaccine serum had meat and that people should not get vaccines.