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Digital Volunteerism – Effective Disaster Relief the GreenTech Way

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and Sahana Foundation (which hosts a free open source disaster management system), have changed the way disaster relief is being done all over the world. Disaster relief is one of the primary activities of the NGO sector, and crowdsourced volunteer digital disaster work is an important and expanding part of it.

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Nonprofit Technology News: The Demise of Facebook Causes and Cloud Storage for Charities

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It’s a new international charity classification system that will pave the way for better grantmaking, especially online and international philanthropy. Back in 2012, in order to better meet the needs of the global philanthropic sector, the Foundation Center began an extensive review of their Philanthropy Classification System.

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Nonprofit Technology News for March 2014

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My current favorite digital inclusion NGO is our newest TechSoup Global partner, Computers For Schools Kenya. I just had a chance to chat with Dr. Tom Musili who runs that incredible NGO to find out what all they’re doing to bring the knowledge economy to school children and electronics recycling to Africa. What the heck.

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