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Fighting for Civic Transparency with Technology in the Western Balkans

Tech Soup

The goal was to find the best web or mobile ideas for social projects in Kosovo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Serbia. And the Winners Are… After a few weeks of coding, sourcing ideas, and testing public interest, the projects were again open to the public for voting. From Serbia. Niš 2.0

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Happy Birthday! The Charitable Deduction Turns 100

ASU Lodestar Center

On June 28, 1914, political assassins killed Austria’s archduke and his wife, leading to the Austro-Hungarian invasion of Serbia and the beginnings of war across Europe. The resolution opens with the observation that the deduction “is one of the oldest preferences in tax law.” On October 3, to raise money for the war, the U.S.

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Hackathons for Good: Techies, Thinkers, and Activists Unite

Tech Soup

Random Hacks of Kindness (RHoK) is a global-wide community of hackers and social leaders with the common goal of building open technology for a better world. Serbia) in partnership with TechSoup Global and Zasto ne (Bosnia and Herzegovina). Another project at the Saturday Hackathon 4 Good was Qeyno , which is described as Khan Academy.

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Nonprofit Technology News for May 2014

Tech Soup

Our TechSoup Global partners there are also working hard on disaster relief in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia through the Community Boost r program and also a project called Mapa Poplava. The FCC ruling opened a four-month public comment period, after which it will take a final vote on net neutrality. An App To End World Hunger?

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Nonprofit Technology News for May 2013: Free WiFi in Forbes Magazine and Braille Phones

Tech Soup

Fundacja TechSoup in Poland, in a close partnership with Dokukino and other local organizations from the Western Balkans, has launched open challenges for the best technology-based social projects that address transparency and accountability issues in the the Bosnia and Hercegovina, Kosovo, and Serbia.

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Face-to-Face Communications with Zoom Help NGOs Around the Planet

Tech Soup

TechSoup's staff also uses it to facilitate philanthropic support to tens of thousands of nonprofits, from the Girl Scouts of Eastern Oklahoma to the Tax Busters in Serbia. These discounted services will be renewable each year and will be open to nonprofits of all mission types with budgets of $10 million and below. Zoom Rooms.

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Face-to-Face Communications with Zoom Help NGOs Around the Planet

Tech Soup

TechSoup's staff also uses it to facilitate philanthropic support to tens of thousands of nonprofits, from the Girl Scouts of Eastern Oklahoma to the Tax Busters in Serbia. These discounted services will be renewable each year and will be open to nonprofits of all mission types with budgets of $10 million and below. Zoom Rooms.