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Restart Romania Social Justice Challenge Spotlights User-Generated Content

Tech Soup

To get diverse perspectives from TechSoup Global staff about user-generated content, we asked Marc Manashil, Community Evangelist for NetSquared, to share how challenges like Restart Romania enable users to get engaged at all levels. Restart Romania: A Spectrum of Engagement. By all accounts, Restart Romania was a huge success.

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Weekly update from PND

Candid

Bloomberg Philanthropies has announced a $31 million investment in the Partnership for Healthy Cities and the addition of six cities to the initiative to create safer and healthier urban environments: Bucharest, Romania; Cairo, Egypt; Córdoba, Argentina; Dublin, Ireland; Greater Manchester, United Kingdom; and Warsaw, Poland. Read more.

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Asociatia Ihtis: A Center for Independent Living in Romania

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I admire their passion and their drive to build one of the first independent living centers in Romania, IHTIS. I will be preparing a separate post about this project. The goal is to get $1 from 350,000 people to support this program. They plan to make it viral. It was very moving.

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Live Blogging ONG Web 2.0 Conference in Romania sponsored by the Soros Foundation in Bucharest

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I am here in Romania for a conference hosted by the Soros Foundation as part of their pilot advocacy through blogging program. Social Media, NGOs, and Romania View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. A rating of 100 or more is considered good in Romania. I will be preparing a separate post about this project.

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The Power of Sport in Changing the World

Saleforce Nonprofit

Through Laureus’ Sport for Peace and Humanitarian Action Fund, we’ve partnered with organizations supporting young Ukrainian refugees in Poland, Romania, and elsewhere in Europe. Sport, play, and physical exercise help these children overcome some of the stresses they carry with them.

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Open Challenges Harness Local Knowledge for Local Change

Tech Soup

Chris Worman, senior director of alliances and community engagement at TechSoup, founded TechSoup Romania and was heavily involved in ReStart Romania and TechSoup's other open community challenges. He estimates that the projects have a 70 to 80 percent survival rate, which is much higher than many purely hackathon-driven models.

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A Huge Thank You and My Next Steps

Amy Sample Ward

I am so thankful for the opportunity to have dreamed together and collaborated on community-driven projects around the world. All those working on other TS community projects ; Susan, Megan, Jessica, Evonne, Kristy and others. We worked closely together for 6 months before we even met in person – and even then he kept me around!

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