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Restart Romania Social Justice Challenge Spotlights User-Generated Content

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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

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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.

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Update: Philanthropy’s response to Ukraine crisis

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Grants from public charities increased 580%. These countries are, in the main, ones that share a border with Ukraine: Poland, Romania, Hungary, Moldova, and Slovakia. Public charity. Public charity. Public charity. Care and protection of children account for 26% of grant dollars. Giving by populations served.

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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. Goal is to provide web presence for most ngos in Romania.

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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. Once the challenge organizers get a solid list of ideas, the public can vote on what they consider to be the top three.

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Upcoming Nonprofits Live on June 20: Leveraging Social Media for Nonprofit Events

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She is a public speaker, consultant, and event planner and heads up programming, marketing, and event logistics for the series. RSVP today to learn how to harness the power of social media to drive results in the real world, and join the conversation on Twitter using the hashtag #NPLive. Our featured speakers include: Ritu Sharma.

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Around the TechSoup Global Blogosphere, January 1-12

Tech Soup

Get great content curation tips in Susan's recap of the TechSoup and TechSoup Romania's tweet chat. Sarah reports on the Public Access Technology Benchmarks project. Cynthia Adams, President and CEO of GrantStation, reports on the results of GrantStation's survey about grantseeking challenges facing nonprofit organizations.

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