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10 Ways to Find Monthly Donors for Your Small Nonprofit

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Illuminate India and Clubhouse Guatemala both completely cover the cost of many of the children in their programs with monthly sponsors. Hopefully you’re tracking your appeals well enough to know this, but if not, get out your calculator and run a couple of reports.). Divide that amount by 3. 25 divided by 3 = $8.33.

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Citizen Tech: Social Media in Disaster Response

Amy Sample Ward

Some include the Red Cross, The Weather Channel, local newspapers, Craigslist, and others. Problems were that many survivors had no internet access, let alone electrical power, let alone computers or even computer literacy. Reports of violence and of peace efforts could be placed via the web or mobile phone.

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President's Update

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Of course, the MacArthur people make a big deal out of the lack of obligation or reporting ("you'll never have to talk to us again," said Daniel Socolow, the head of the program). For example, I'm planning on going to India and Bangladesh next month for the first time, and to Uganda and Sudan next year. But, I don't feel that way!

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Women Ingenuity is Powering Solutions for the Digital Divide

Connection Cafe

According to the Women and the Web report, 200 million more men have access to the Internet than women. There are digital literacy trainings for women springing up in Bangladesh, Internet cafés for women opening doors in Argentina, and women leaders in Kenya prototyping mobile apps that send out alerts if a woman’s safety is threatened.

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Empowering Women Citizen Journalists: An Interview with Cristi Hegranes

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Cristi Hegranes: My name is Cristi Hegranes and I am the President and Founder of The Press Institute for Women in the Developing World which is an international nonprofit organization that was founded in order to train women in developing countries to become investigative reporters to report their own news. I said, "You write it.

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The Global Fund for Women: An Interview with Kavita Ramdas

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I think what makes us unique is that we are really investing in women's leadership and women's creativity in developing local solutions to some of the world's most challenging problems. Three years later when we received a report back from the group about how they had done, there were five shaky signatures.

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