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Apps for Youth, By Youth

Tech Soup

Windows Phone) is a point-of-care smartphone application that addresses child mortality rates by lack of detection and availability of treatment for malaria. While the app is only available for Washington voters, it could potentially be adopted for other states. Political Engagement and Activism. School and Job Preparedness.

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Save the Internet, Save the World

NTEN

The only way refugees in this country can check on the status of their applications with the US Immigration and Naturalization Service is though the Web. (I I challenge anyone to try to get through the INS process in one hour, the time limit many public libraries put on Internet use.). Imagine providing training any-time, any-place.

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Cloud Computing for Small Nonprofits: Lessons Learned from 5 Years in the Cloud

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Shortly after the Colorectal Cancer Coalition was incorporated as an organization in March 2005 we hired an admin, bought her a laptop and gave her a desk in a tiny single room office sublet from another organization in Washington, DC. Keep a library of training materials. There's a tiny fine line between collaboration and distraction.

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Cloud Computing for Small Nonprofits: Lessons Learned from 5 Years in the Cloud

NTEN

Shortly after the Colorectal Cancer Coalition was incorporated as an organization in March 2005 we hired an admin, bought her a laptop and gave her a desk in a tiny single room office sublet from another organization in Washington, DC. Keep a library of training materials. There's a tiny fine line between collaboration and distraction.

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Nonprofit Technology News Celebrity Forecasts for 2014

Tech Soup

She just did a presentation to the Gates Global Libraries Working Group in November 2013 on the top tech trends for libraries. ” Khan Academy’s comprehensive library of content covers a full primary school curriculum plus classes in math, and science including biology, chemistry, and physics. Peter Campbell.

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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 then zipped down to DC for three days. I had a chance to meet with staffers involved in the drafting of two key federal bills that are most likely to be adopted, and shared my issues. But, we’re concerned about small nonprofits who are not Google, Facebook, Pearson or Benetech, and they aren’t able to show up in a place like DC.

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