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Philanthropy and Social Media: New Whitepaper from The Institute for Philanthropy

Amy Sample Ward

Ushahidi, an open source project originally deployed in Kenya to report post-election violence has since been downloaded and deployed for many other events and disasters, including Haiti, Chile, and Japan. The real-time web has also revolutionized the way we support local communities in disaster.

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Nonprofit Technology News for November 2013

Tech Soup

The project was originally funded by Microsoft for the Transforming Communities of Practice grant. If fraud is suspected, the company will reverse the fund transfer. Other important websites in the world include the Yandex search engine in Russia, Yahoo in Japan and Taiwan, and Baidu in China. You have to trust Square.

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