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Case Study: How One Organization Raised over $500K through Millennials

Achieve

LiNK (Liberty in North Korea). is a human rights organization that physically rescues North Korean refugees and helps resettle them in South Korea or the United States so they can avoid being forcibly repatriated back to North Korea, where they can face harsh punishments as a result of illegally immigrating.

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Earth Day 2010: Recycle

Tech Soup

As a result, it is only done on an industrial level in a few dozen countries. The only countries that have laws that set up electronic recycling collection and processing systems are South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, the 27 countries of the European Union, five provinces in Canada, and 20 states in the United States.

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Provide the Nonprofit Voice to America's Broadband Plan

NTEN

Deregulation has produced monopolistic practices that have resulted in higher prices for consumers and slowed the deployment of competitive networks. Consumers in South Korea and Japan can get broadband speeds reaching 1 Gigabit per second (Gbps) for less than the monthly price a U.S. Bad policy decisions should be reversed.

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Technology for Whom? Owning Our Platforms

Non Profit Quarterly

Relatedly, racially biased facial-recognition technology has resulted in drivers of color losing jobs due to computer-assisted mismatches, without any due process or evidence of wrongdoing. 11 According to a 2017 report, 57.3 million Americans were by then working as freelancers, with 36 percent of all U.S. In many U.S.

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Mr. Jim Goes to Washington (and New York, and Nairobi, and Seoul, and Kampala, and Boston…)

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

I had a particular brainstorm as a result of some ideas presented by the team, because on the flight back from Africa I had just read Sally Osberg’s new book on social entrepreneurship (coauthored with Prof. Roger Martin). It made a big impression on me, and I am also working on a blog post inspired by her book, Getting Beyond Better.

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