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Philanthropy’s response to the Turkey and Syria earthquake 

Candid

million Turks in temporary shelters and left more than 500,000 Syrians homeless, according to the United Nations. The United Nations also issued an appeal for an additional $1 billion in aid, and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development pledged €1.5 The disaster also displaced over 1.9 An estimated 2.2 An estimated 2.2

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Things We Like (January 2009)

NTEN

FlowingData has mapped the growth of WalMart across the U.S. An IT program in Germany has a section on social skills. The return of technology as a national priority. Tag Galaxy maps Flickr photos onto a virtual solar system. Read more posts on our blog. Terrific visual representations of data. since 1967.

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Nonprofit Data Could Be The Missing Piece In Your CSR Strategy

Global Giving

In France, eight types of foundations are registered across multiple national registries. In Germany, there is no central registry at all. It combines government data, public information, and other reliable records to give the most comprehensive virtual map of nonprofits from Afghanistan to Venezuela.

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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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