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Save the Children Alternative Gift Catalog: Amazing

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Just adding to the meme of alternative gift giving ideas that Steve Garfield started last week. Save the Children. What is your favorite alternative gift-giving site or program?

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Announcing… 31 New Favorite Nonprofits for 2013!

Nonprofit Tech for Good

SOS Children’s Villages International :: @ SOS_Children. SOS Children’s Villages works to stop more than half a million children ending up alone, abandoned or in institutions. Wildlife SOS :: @ WildlifeSOS. ECPAT International :: @ ECPAT. Demos :: @ Demos_Org. Alley Cat Allies :: @ AlleyCatAllies.

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News In Brief: Blackbaud, RKD, Moore

The NonProfit Times

As previously disclosed, due to EVERFI performing below expectations, Blackbaud is considering a range of alternatives for EVERFI, one of which includes a potential divestiture of the business. RKD Group will combine data science, digital and omnichannel efforts to create audience-first fundraising campaigns for Feed the Children.

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Making the Book Truly Accessible for All Students

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Schools are back in session, and with them millions of American children who struggle daily to learn using traditional printed books. Having learning disabilities or various learning differences, they need alternative reading environments that rely on their strengths rather than on their weaknesses.

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Accessible eBooks for Equal Opportunity

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

In particular, electronic books (or e-books) offer the possibility of dramatically improving access for students with disabilities – and for disadvantaged children everywhere. For instance, about 40 per cent more eighth-grade students with disabilities are reading below the basic achievement level compared with peers without disabilities.

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Hoxton Farms raises £2.7M seed to produce animal fat without animals

TechCrunch

“I spent my PhD using a genome editing technology called CRISPR to discover better treatments for children’s leukaemia,” says Jamily. Like other companies in the meat alternative space, the startup is founded on the premise that the traditional meat industry is unsustainable. They don’t taste right and they aren’t healthy.

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The FDA just approved the first prescription video game — it’s for kids with ADHD

The Verge

That’s the landmark decision from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) , which is authorizing doctors to prescribe the iPhone and iPad game for kids between ages eight and 12 years old with ADHD, after it underwent seven years of clinical trials that studied over 600 children to figure out whether a game could actually make a difference.

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