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Upwardly Global: Bridging the Opportunity Gap for Skilled Immigrants

Tech Soup

Although that plant was considered a model employer for refugees at the time, Jane met employees who included a former engineer from Iraq and a surgeon from Bosnia. As part of its model of success, Upwardly Global is very data-driven and integrates metrics into every aspect of its program. at their full potential.

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#GivingTuesday: Why I Am Participating in the National Day of Giving on November 27, 2012

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Founding partners include United Nations Foundation, DonorsChoose.org , Mashable, Blackbaud, charity: water, GlobalGiving, Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA), Kiva, Darden Restaurant Group, Groupon, Unilever and VENTURE3Capital. And that’s why I’m supporting Giving Tuesday. What about you?

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NetSquared: In the Beginning

Tech Soup

The Iraq War was raging. The NetSquared website was itself designed to be a model Web 2.0 In the beginning, TechSoup’s Marnie Webb, Daniel Ben-Horin, and Billy Bicket created NetSquared to "remix the web for social change." " The year was 2005. TechSoup was then called CompuMentor. The buzzword then was Web 2.0,

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Guest post by Brian Reich: GamesThatGive - You Play. We Donate. Charities Win.

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans Association. I am confident that GamesThatGive can raise a lot of money, and I truly believe the model behind GamesThatGive will help change the way organizations look at how to use the internet and technology to raise money and engage their audience. The Wilderness Society. Jumpstart for Young Children.

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Wikileaks War Data Reveal Underreporting of Iraqi Civilian Casualties

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

A Guest Beneblog by Anita Gohdes, Jeff Klingner, Megan Price and Patrick Ball The recent release of almost 400,000 secret US military files on the war in Iraq through Wikileaks has attracted wide media coverage. This new evidence is consistent with the hypothesis that IBC’s press data underreport small events in Iraq.

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Balancing People, Profit & Planet: An Interview with Reem Rahim of Numi Tea

Have Fun - Do Good

For a long time, in my family, we had discussed importing a dry desert line called "Numi", in Arabic, that we drank as kids in our native Iraq. Have a cash flow model that works, that is in real time. My brother had teahouses in Europe, so he was really the tea, sort of, aficionado. He still is. Then, also, have a business plan.

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Self-Censorship for Museum Professionals

Museum 2.0

Experimental trails on humans Historical antecedents to modern day “hot button” topics Lecture series Population growth (down arrow) What technology is developed reflects the political structure of a society and its values An exhibit of a plastinated cow or pig as part of a larger Children’s museum exhibition on agriculture.

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