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Calling All Social Entrepreneurs: SAP and Ashoka Launch "Power of Small" Competition

Tech Soup

Have a brilliant idea for how to end homelessness, train job seekers , or help small businesses go green? To generate innovative strategies and solve problems in underserved communities, SAP and Ashoka have created a global competition, " The Power of Small: Entrepreneurs Strengthening Local Economies. Green business.

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Net2Local November Event Preview

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Net2Local is a project of TechSoup Global that invites activists, techies, nonprofits and the social good community together to meet monthly in 50 cities around the world. We’re a global movement with chapters in 20 countries. Find your closest NetSquared group on our global map. Newest Net2Local Groups. Mukono, Uganda.

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A Hearty Congratulations to TechSoup Members Winning Google Impact Challenge Awards

Tech Soup

Google Global Impact Award competitions have been held in India and the UK, and most recently in the San Francisco Bay Area. They also carry on the work of visionary founder and board member, Van Jones, especially in the area of developing green jobs training programs for low-income youth.

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Why You Didn't Hear About Cyclone Ivan's Destruction in Madagascar and How To Help Support Relief Efforts

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

She was the recent winner of my son's Green Geek Charity Contest and we contributed a small amount to the charity of her choice, SOS Children's Villages. So I had great time eating my favourite chocolate waffle when watching Harry my favourite green geek. The Daily Green reported on its initial impact, when 11 were reported dead.)

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HealthRIGHT 360: BetterWorld VoIP Case Study

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Walden House was founded in the Haight-Ashbury district, just two years later, in 1969 and focused on helping runaway youth and the homeless with substance abuse problems. Accessible Technology Acquiring Technology Technology Assessment Green IT nonprofits BetterWorld Telecom VoIP tsbetterworldtelecom HealthRIGHT 360'

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Got Hope? I Do, in Generation Y

Have Fun - Do Good

By the time I saw them, they had met with staff at MicroPlace , Lenders for Community Development , IDEO , the Kaiser Family Foundation , the Draper Richards Foundation , Upwardly Global , 826 Valencia , MAPLight , Taoit , People's Grocery , Whole Foods and the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights. times the number currently employed."

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10 Steps to Extension Professional 2.0 Remix

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Here's just three people/content connections on this topic that I found from Technorati search: A search on "tags" lead me directly to a YouTube channel from the Youth Health Alliance and a series of youth-created videos on nutrition, including the one above that explains why it is better to drink green tea versus software drinks.

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