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CEO’s Update: Fall 2014

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

We competed against other participating organizations, racing against the clock to raise funds and secure matching funding from the Skoll Foundation. Martus is our free, open source, secure information collection and management tool. The Challenge ran for six weeks through December 5th. billion poor and unbanked.

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Announcing Our First Impact Labs Cohort on Zero Hunger: Addressing Food Insecurity in the U.S.

Saleforce Nonprofit

For example, our first Impact Lab cohort designed Service Match , an open-source app designed for case managers who connect people experiencing homelessness to vital human services. At our first in-person design sprint*, the group challenged each other to bust orthodoxies that hold us back from reducing hunger. Emilio Tavarez.

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Why Nonprofits Need a Values-Based Social Media Strategy

Non Profit Quarterly

Some users are migrating to new platforms, like Post, or to decentralized, open-source services, like Mastodon. Until a 2020 overhaul of its algorithms, Meta’s content policies for Facebook and Instagram made no distinction between hate content targeting marginalized groups and comments criticizing racist White people.

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Benetech's Human Rights Spin-off

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

As a matter of fact, the funding for Benetech to start Bookshare and our Martus human rights software project came from a successful spinoff of our first social enterprise, the Arkenstone reading machines, which we sold to a for-profit for roughly $5 million.

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NTEN and the Pizzigati Prize join forces to advance open source for good

NTEN

NTEN is proud to be the new steward of The Antonio Pizzigati Prize for Software in the Public Interest , elevating and celebrating open source development for social impact work. The Pizzigati Prize honors the brief life of Tony Pizzigati, an early advocate of open source computing. Open Source for Social Impact.

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NTEN Member Buzz Round-Up: April 30

NTEN

Rock on open data and mapping! iMentor received funding from the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention to offer organizations grants to use iMentor resources. . This tweetschat group has recently been talking about the net neutrality issues being debated in the US, and how Europe should be paying attention. .

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On Frogloop's Radar

Care2

Join environmental experts at the next Internet Advocacy Roundtable on April 16th at 3PM for a discussion on breaking our addiction to oil. Panelists will also discuss how environmental groups are leveraging online strategies to educate and mobilize a diverse and broad-based audience of citizens and policymakers. RSVP: Click here.