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64 Online Stores That Benefit Nonprofits and the Greater Good

Nonprofit Tech for Good

2) Amnesty International Store :: shop.amnestyusa.org. Proceeds benefit Amnesty International, a nonprofit that works for the human rights of all people – no matter who they are or where they are. 22) Serrv International :: serrv.org. 28) Sweet Relief Musicans Fund :: sweet-relief-musicians-fund.myshopify.com.

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Benetech: President's Update

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Highlights of this Letter: SocialCoding4Good CityOptions Read2Go and Route 66 Literacy Selected Program Updates Human rights: Legal victory in Guatemala, PBS NewsHour stories Literacy: Major milestones for Bookshare at home and abroad SocialCoding4Good Just funded by the John S. and James L. This is a huge legal victory!

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10 Nonprofits to Support on World Humanitarian Day

EveryAction

Their work spans the globe, including promoting the work of a vegetable and chicken farmer in Vietnam , providing financial support to nearly 2,000 families participating in soil conservation projects in Guatemala , and building sanitation facilities in Somalia. Amnesty International USA. Take Action | Twitter | Facebook. Equality Now.

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Seeds for a Future

ASU Lodestar Center

The observations presented in this blog post deal with some of the things we have learned while founding and then running a small community development NGO in an indigenous Guatemala village of about 1,500 families, called Chocolá. We consulted the Guatemala NGO Network in Antigua for guidance and attorney/accountant referrals.

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Learn from the Pros at a NetSquared Community Event

Tech Soup

The targets need to be linked like so: --> Jump to events in North America or go international with events in: Africa. Guatemala City, Guatemala: Taller de como hacer Estilos Sociales para el mundo digital. Guatemala City, Guatemala: Taller de Automatización de QA para dispositivos móviles y aplicaciones web.

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Doing the Right Stuff Right for Human Rights

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

It wasn’t until 1993, when a reconstruction of these events by American journalist Mark Danner first appeared in The New Yorker , that the full story of the El Mozote massacre was brought to light and sent shock waves through the international community. Dave suggested we rename our idea Martus, the Greek word for “witness.”

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President's Update

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

However, the fellowship does give me much more flexibility: I don't have to justify spending Benetech's funds for something that isn't directly connected to our current projects. Bookshare.org Goes International This year marked my first attendance at the Clinton Global Initiative. Few of these violations have ever been prosecuted.

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