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Why Every Organization Should Make Sustainability Part of its Mission

Saleforce Nonprofit

org’s Climate Justice Action map , which connects people with local groups and other activists. BlocPower , a Salesforce Ventures Impact Fund portfolio company, is a Brooklyn-based climate tech startup that is rapidly greening and electrifying buildings in America’s urban core.

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Ushahidi Develops Innovative Tools for Nonprofits and Others Working to Benefit the Public

Tech Soup

Ushahidi has been developing open-source crisis mapping software for over eight years now. LABB created an Oil Spill Crisis Map in response to the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010. Since then, it has since logged, mapped, and tracked more than 14,000 reports of petrochemical pollution.

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Citizen Tech: Social Media in Disaster Response

Amy Sample Ward

Yahoo set up 100 Internet-linked computers at the Astrodome and developed a meta-search of evacuee registration websites. Problems were that many survivors had no internet access, let alone electrical power, let alone computers or even computer literacy. I will explain the use of mapping, fundraising, and crowdsourcing.

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Nonprofit Technology News for November 2013

Tech Soup

It also lists and maps hackathons worldwide. The project was originally funded by Microsoft for the Transforming Communities of Practice grant. • Mapping • Cloud computing. If fraud is suspected, the company will reverse the fund transfer. billiion of us use the Internet nowadays. See the map here.

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8 Apps That May (Actually) Change San Francisco

Tech Soup

Data Collecting and Mapping. They designed an open-source mobile browser-based app that allows the user to quickly collect and map data while on the ground. If LocalFreeWeb sounds familiar, it's because this service for finding free Internet access was at the previous Caravan breakfast. Referral Services.

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Women Who Tech Telesummit: Tools Galore Panel

Amy Sample Ward

There are quite a few options for doing this, some open source and free others not. Prioritize your ROI around the biggest impact, whether that’s raising funds, engaging people, or something else. Helpful resources on Twitter: Pew Internet report. Google’s Mapping tools include: Google Earth.

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Open Source Is Dead! Long Live Open Source!

NTEN

Open Source is Dead. What I mean is that open source, as we knew it, is dead. For the last decade, what we've been talking about when we say "open source" is "open code" -- a set of zeroes and ones that we can configure to our heart's desire. Long Live Open Source.