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Guam and the Consortium

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Japan is the biggest source of tourists for Guam, with growing numbers from other Asian nations like South Korea. education laws as part of receiving extensive funding. The presence is growing: the U.S. is relocating our units from Okinawa to Guam and this could grow the island's population anywhere from 20% to 40%.

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Case Study: How One Organization Raised over $500K through Millennials

Achieve

LiNK (Liberty in North Korea). is a human rights organization that physically rescues North Korean refugees and helps resettle them in South Korea or the United States so they can avoid being forcibly repatriated back to North Korea, where they can face harsh punishments as a result of illegally immigrating.

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Provide the Nonprofit Voice to America's Broadband Plan

NTEN

Consumers in South Korea and Japan can get broadband speeds reaching 1 Gigabit per second (Gbps) for less than the monthly price a U.S. Encouraging residential adoption should be a top priority through educational programs and funding for schools and community organizations. Bad policy decisions should be reversed.

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Technology for Whom? Owning Our Platforms

Non Profit Quarterly

12 At the same time—as shown by an International Monetary Fund (IMF) report in 2017—technological advancement, especially as regards the growth of the platform economy, had been chipping away at the share of income for workers, resulting in half of the decline in workers’ share of income across the globe between 1990 and 2015.

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MCON13 Live Blog: Millennial Giving (Alia McKee, Sea Change Strategies and Justin Wheeler, LINK)

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Millennials like instant gratification (in this case a trip to south korea to meet the refugees your funds rescued). LINK created a fundraising page and filled it with great content 2) Provide great content in that space Such as updates of impact in the field, progress reports, etc.

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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. Took pictures of the lunar eclipse next to the Empire State Building(!) Roger Martin).

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