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The Future of Fundraising Is Peer-to-Peer

Achieve

Liberty in North Korea. , or LiNK, an organization based in California that works to rescue and resettle North Korean refugees. And this is as true for those who work in higher education as it is for those who raise funds for frontline service providers. One of them involved. In fact, Achieve recently teamed up with the.

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Crowdsourcing Skills for Human Rights via Movements.org

Tech Soup

After taking degrees at UCLA and Tel Aviv University and completing a tour of duty with the Israeli Army, Keyes became coordinator for democracy programs under famed Soviet dissident and Israeli minister Natan Sharansky. They are the aforementioned CyberDissidents, and Advancing Human Rights, which he co-founded with Robert L.

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Mr. Jim Goes to Washington (and New York, and Nairobi, and Seoul, and Kampala, and Boston…)

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

We’re a former grantee and we hope that our work and Gates funding priorities coincide again in the future. This time I had three agenda items for my conversations with congressional staff: Advocating for funding for special education. We were demonstrating Bookshare to a person at one of Uganda’s top universities.

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