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Typhoon Haiyan: How to Help with Recovery Efforts

Tech Soup

Relief organizations and first-responders are mobilizing to provide aid to those affected by Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines. We've compiled a list of organizations to which you can donate to support these efforts as well as some disaster recovery resources. curated a list of charities providing aid to people in the Philippines.

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How Drones Are Being Used to Benefit Humankind

Tech Soup

Conservation mapping and 3D imaging. After the recent Nepal earthquake , the Canadian nonprofit, GlobalMedic , flew drones over the affected areas to create 3D maps of the worst-hit zones. Additional Resources. How Are Drones Being Used for Good? Assessing disaster-stricken areas. Tracking storms. Search and rescue. In the U.S.,

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Youth Programs Benefit from Microsoft Donations

Tech Soup

I did a post a few weeks ago on youth programs in TechSoup Global's new Local Impact Map and decided I hadn’t covered this resource nearly enough. Our Local Impact Map. demonstrates what nonprofits, NGOs, and libraries around the world are doing with their TechSoup Global software donations to further their missions.

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Women's Global Green Action Network: An Interview with Melinda Kramer

Have Fun - Do Good

Our essential intention is to cultivate partnerships of grassroots women who are working at the community level on issues of environmental sustainability and social justice, so that they can really find opportunities to collaborate and to exchange best practices, exchange resources, and really build a collective agenda.

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Solutionary Women: Alli Chagi-Starr, Ilyse Hogue, Melinda Kramer and Reem Rahim

Have Fun - Do Good

When I did a little digging, I realized that aside from threatening our water supply in Austin, Texas, they had sufficiently done that in Indonesia, and the Philippines and pretty much all over the world. And interestingly, there was a group of women who really had put that on the map as well. This is about our community.

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