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CEO’s Update: Fall 2014

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

In fact, his reading skills are above average and he is on track to be an honor roll student. To date, more than one thousand software professionals have signed up to lend their time and skills to SocialCoding4Good’s nonprofit project partners, and we are thrilled to support this growing contributor community with new leadership.

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Empowering Women Citizen Journalists: An Interview with Cristi Hegranes

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So often, government control, or just lack of access to information and media, prevents people from really being able to be educated and informed about serious issues that are going on around them. We have $2 donors out of Zimbabwe and $20,000 donors out of San Francisco. Our primary goal is to provide that empowering employment.

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Using Photography to Change the World: An Interview with Paola Gianturco

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"[T]hose of us who take pictures, even for our own personal trips, and share those pictures with friends, because we have that skill, also have an obligation to help people understand each other more completely. The children are ages 6-16, and they're making huge strides by leading a national movement against child rape in Zimbabwe.