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Recruiting Geeks for Human Rights!

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Check out recent press coverage of our work, featuring the head of our human rights team, Dr. Patrick Ball, in Foreign Policy magazine and NPR's On The Media. Knowledge of or fluency in other languages is *not* necessary, but in your CV/resume, please note your level of skill (reading/writing/speaking) in any languages other than English.

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Success Stories From 10 Successful Entrepreneurs From Around The World

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Susanna has a big techie network, as an early community leader at the pivotal publication Wired and then on the staff of Macworld , PCWorld and Outside magazines. We were also teaching business students, leading innovation and entrepreneurship workshops, and it suddenly hit us that this was something extraordinary, a larger story.

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The Lessons From 10 Entrepreneurs From Around The World

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Susanna has a big techie network, as an early community leader at the pivotal publication Wired and then on the staff of Macworld , PCWorld and Outside magazines. We were also teaching business students, leading innovation and entrepreneurship workshops, and it suddenly hit us that this was something extraordinary, a larger story.

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The Revealing And Inspirational Journeys Of 10 Entrepreneurs From Around The World

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Susanna has a big techie network, as an early community leader at the pivotal publication Wired and then on the staff of Macworld , PCWorld and Outside magazines. We were also teaching business students, leading innovation and entrepreneurship workshops, and it suddenly hit us that this was something extraordinary, a larger story.

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Using Design Thinking for A Foundation’s Investment Strategy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This was followed by a presentations and discussion with four thought leaders who shared their insights and knowledge around four different themes: New Power : Henry Timms, 92nd Street Y. To get people in the mindset for brainstorming, I lead them through a couple of improvisation exercises that teach acceptance and openness to new ideas.

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150+ Creative Ways to Show Donors Appreciation

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Knowledge: Subject matter expertise, research, polling, case studies. History: Simply being around a long time has some cachet and may mean you have access to historical wisdom, knowledge, and records. Can you adapt the training for donors as a group teaching session? Does anyone carve, knit, sew or create t-shirts… or fun food?

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: Can You Teach a Watchdog New Tricks?

ASU Lodestar Center

Disclaimer Wednesday, May 4, 2011 Can You Teach a Watchdog New Tricks? Magazines like Forbes , U.S. The training of donors to rely on financial ratios picked up steam when seed capital, the easy availability of IRS Form 990, the power of the internet, and enough-knowledge-to-be-dangerous coalesced to form Charity Navigator in 2001.

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