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Open Challenges Harness Local Knowledge for Local Change

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Since the first NetSquared challenge in 2006, TechSoup has continued to offer people and organizations opportunities to connect, share ideas, and collaborate; they work on solutions online and offline through events, meetups, and hackathons. It motivates and engages citizens across central and eastern Europe, the Balkans, and Turkey.

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Apps for Youth, By Youth

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Windows Phone) is a point-of-care smartphone application that addresses child mortality rates by lack of detection and availability of treatment for malaria. You can also create a special reading list, locate books in your local library, and share what you're reading with friends over social media. Apps Made by Youth.

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Visualizing the World's Seven Billion

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This post originally appeared on the Netsquared blog and was authored by Bari Samad, an NGO domain expert for NetSquared. While girls' primary school enrollment rates are high worldwide, getting closer to those of boys, their completion rates are below 50 percent in most developing countries.

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TechSoup at the 2012 Nonprofit Technology Conference

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Bonus: See an overview of our Local Impact Map and see how you can get it for your nonprofit. We'll cover the back-to-basics of successful email marketing including audience surveys and demographics, improving CTR, benchmarking yourself, open rates, and list "churn." " Local Community Organizers Affinity Group.

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Make Your Fundraising Mobile with Connect2Give

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Kudos to Erin Palmer over at TechSoup's NetSquared Project for this: "The Pew Internet & American Life Project reports that, as of early 2012, 88% of American adults had a cell phone. The annual discounted subscription rate is $576.00. The annual discounted subscription rate is $1,176.00. Benefits of a Mobile Site.

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Changing the World One Gift at a Time: An Interview with Deron Beal of the Freecycle Network

Have Fun - Do Good

This summer I've been interviewing the innovators behind the 21 Projects that went to the NetSquared Conference (N2Y2) this year (I'm the Community Builder for NetSquared). You can listen to the original interview and a live recording of Freecycle's 5-minute pitch at the NetSquared Conference on the NetSquared Podcast.

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Mother's Day for Peace

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Campaign supporters are asked to bring pies to their local Congressional offices and let their Congresspeople know that "Peace wants a Piece of the Pie" (the federal budget). Last year Oakland's homicide rate reached a five-year high of 148 people. Department of Peace. Beth Kanter posted about this a couple weeks ago.