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Martín Burt’s Best Kept Secret

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

In 1985, he started Fundación Paraguaya in order to develop social innovations that could help create jobs and increase family income among the country’s poor. Fundación Paraguaya was the country’s first microfinance program and first development NGO. and Africa. So I asked for a leave of absence from Fundación Paraguaya and dove in.

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Metrics for Virtual Worlds: Can you measure engagement?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

s a big job and you???re via the Mind Blizzard Blog I learned of a new Dutch NGO island, called "Goede Doelen eiland" ( good causes island ). The island is sponsored by Dutch bankers ABN Amro and the Free University of Amsterdam (VUA) and was build by students of the VUA. Flickr photo from Carmello. "Measuring ???engagement???

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Empowering Change: Caitlin Cohen of the Sigida Keneyali Project

Have Fun - Do Good

"Many people imagine international health as this fashionable, sexy, and fun job. Caitlin tells it like it is--the nitty gritty of starting up an NGO, and why she believes it is important to help the people you are serving to create the change they want to see, not to create the change for them. Most of it is administration.

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Empowering Refugees: Interview with Kjerstin Erickson of FORGE

Have Fun - Do Good

Erickson founded FORGE (Facilitating Opportunities for Refugee Growth and Empowerment) in 2003 when she was a 20 year-old junior studying public policy at Stanford University. He showed so much leadership and promise that we ended up sponsoring him to a university through our FORGE education fund. I had a lot to learn.

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Mobile, Voice-Operated Everything, and Security, Oh My! Top Nonprofit Tech for 2016

Tech Soup

Here's our look at the most interesting and fun things that happened in nonprofit technology this year. The migrant humanitarian crisis has been rocking governments and dominating NGO humanitarian work for the last two years. Good job, NTEN community! For more #nptech news, check out part 1 of this blog series. In the U.S.,

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