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Racing Through the Sahara for South African NGOs

Tech Soup

The run, set to begin today, October 2, is a 250-kilometer journey through the Sahara Desert ending at the Pyramids of Giza for the purpose of raising money for South African nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). TechSoup's partner in South Africa SANGONeT , that like TechSoup was founded in 1987, organized the No Pain No Gain fundraiser.

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The Steep Challenges of Philanthropy to the Muslim World

Tech Soup

The most populous Muslim country is Indonesia , followed by India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nigeria, and Egypt. This involves things like how to manage investment funds that include purification processes for dealing with interest payments on loans in places that find common banking practices against Sharia law.

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Great reads from around the web on September 19th

Amy Sample Ward

The Revolutions Were Tweeted: Visualizing Prominent Information Flows during the Tunisia and Egypt Revolutions – This is a very cool visualization from danah boyd pulling together twitter accounts and displaying tweets, reactions, and much more. Since 2008, non-profits have cracked the $1 billion mark for online fundraising.

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When Viral Campaigns Fail and Social Media Mobs Rule

Care2

First up Kenneth Cole - As the protests in Egypt were escalating, and #Egypt and #Cairo began trending on Twitter, Kenneth Cole tweeted: “Millions are in uproar in #Cairo. With a single tweet linking to a donate page to the Tibet Fund. Rumor is they heard our new spring collection is now available online at [link].&#.