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Philanthropy’s response to the Turkey and Syria earthquake 

Candid

Corporations headquartered in Germany—home to over three million ethnic Turks and approximately one million refugees from Syria—have responded to the crisis by contributing more than €16.7 million in grants to local nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in Turkey. million—representing the largest contribution from any foundation.

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Nonprofit Data Could Be The Missing Piece In Your CSR Strategy

Global Giving

Local sources of data are decentralized. In Germany, there is no central registry at all. More than 100 individual courts house the registration data for their local nonprofit organizations. If you’ve ever spent a day in line at your local court, you can imagine what it takes to pull those records.

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Metro4All — Making All Metro Systems Accessible

Tech Soup

It's looking for people in American cities interested in helping to map every metro system and fix that problem. Metro4All was founded by Maxim Dubinin in Moscow a few years ago as a social good project of his interactive mapping company, NextGIS. Mapping Metro Stations. Meet the Russian social enterprise, Metro4All.

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Data, Data Everywhere: But How Does It Relate to You and Your Work?

Tech Soup

Open Data in Aid Transparency — The organizers for this workshop, which will be held in Berlin on September 28 and 29, 2011, are OpenAid , Open Knowledge Foundation Germany , the Open Data Network , and the Böll Foundation. The New York Times used data mapping and visualizations to examine Netflix Queues. are planned.

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