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Great reads from around the web on June 16th

Amy Sample Ward

Are you a techie who could donate some skills? Summer of Social Good by Mashable - "Summer of Social Good is the first large scale online charitable campaign to raise funds strictly online through the power of Social Media and the Internet. Mozilla Service Week! - Are you a nonprofit that could benefit from some techie help?

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Crowdsourcing Skills for Human Rights via Movements.org

Tech Soup

As The Daily Beast senior correspondent for national security and politics Josh Rogin put it : Movements.org "seeks to put activists in closed societies in touch with skilled people in the free world who can help them. Movements.org is an online skills marketplace, operating under the umbrella of the charity Advancing Human Rights.

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Kevin Danaher of Global Exchange Talks about the Global Citizen Center

Have Fun - Do Good

They are going to come out here to San Francisco, and we are going to shop around for buildings because they have a whole bunch of money, and a lot of skills around real estate, and we have the connections with the green economy groups. There are people in positions of power in places like Iran and Washington, D.C. It loves science.

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