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5 Games Supporting Nonprofits’s Missions, from Low-Tech to High-Tech

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

By placing players squarely in the middle of the issues at-hand, games for social impact allow them to experience the nuances of these challenges in a way that is often as transformative and it is informative. The Senate Immersion Module will launch in Boston in March, at the opening of the EMK Institute.

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Data Digest: African Students Using Open Data, Social Impact Bonds, Digital Smoke Signals, and the Data Dilemma

Tech Soup

This week we learn about the Resilient Africa Network (RAN), which is helping African students use open data for disaster relief. It harnesses locally based solutions to decrease the effects of disasters and rehabilitate communities in disaster-prone areas. It was originally published on NetSquared.

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Good Ram Gone Bad On My Dell Desktop: OMG

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Oh, I've had problems before, but only minor hardware failures and crashes because I have a duo-RAID hard drive. I always seem to have computer problems before important presentations (see here and here ). It looks like one of the ram sockets on the motherboard is fried. I don't need this to happen to me.

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The 2016 Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar

EveryAction

The 33rd Annual Nonprofit Organizations Institute features leading nationally recognized experts from private foundations, public charities, law, finance and government to discuss the latest tax, legislative and governance issues affecting nonprofit organizations. AFP / Boston, MA / Price varies. General / @southwestfdns. Mar 20 - 22.

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Tech Policies for Virtual Teams: A Leader’s Responsibility

Non Profit Quarterly

So, they were not dealing with two particular issues; they really were dealing with one. The problem they had was they didn’t really have policies to really govern and guide their staff towards effectively transitioning. So that’s a complicating issue, too. But there definitely are issues to pay attention to there.

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Small Groups Can Change the World: An Interview with Marianne Manilov of The Engage Network

Have Fun - Do Good

He'd been going around the country looking at everything from disaster sites, to CEOs of corporations, and seeing how people were empowered from the ground up. Small group to large group, issue-based, short-term. He became an advisor, not just because of what was in the book, but everything he had been studying. Not so great.

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