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50 Nonprofits Every U.S. Politican Should Follow on Twitter

Nonprofit Tech for Good

They are active in our communities, in our schools, and have valuable knowledge and experience that our nation’s elected officials could learn from and be inspired by, and yet very few U.S. American Cancer Society :: @ AmericanCancer. Coalition for Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans :: @ CIAV. American Red Cross :: @ RedCross.

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The Davos Blur

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

James Moody of Australia’s national research organization was talking about an idea of a humanitarian license for patents that has been floated by the YGL community. Each hour there’s something memorable. Today was an example of this. In the morning, I attended a session put on by the Young Global Leaders with six interesting proposals.

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A Facebook loophole is allowing politicians around the world to fake support and criticize opponents

The Verge

Facebook moves swiftly to deal with coordinated campaigns to sway politics in wealthy countries like the US, South Korea, and Taiwan, while it de-prioritizes or simply ignores reports of similar activity in poorer nations like Afghanistan, Iraq, Mexico, and much of Latin America. Instead, we hold them responsible. (4/8)

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50 Nonprofits To Be Grateful For This Thanksgiving

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America. is the only developed nation in the world without paid maternity leave. National Anti-Vivisection Society. Because you can judge a nation by how it treats their animals. National Campaign to Prevent Teenage Pregnancy. National Coalition for the Homeless.

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50 Nonprofits To Be Grateful For This Thanksgiving

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America. is the only developed nation in the world without paid maternity leave. National Anti-Vivisection Society. Because you can judge a nation by how it treats their animals. National Campaign to Prevent Teenage Pregnancy. National Coalition for the Homeless. Moms Rising.

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Are you celebrating Giving Tuesday? These NTEN Members are!

NTEN

Giving Tuesday is a movement to create a national day of giving to kick off the giving season added to the calendar on the Tuesday following Thanksgiving, Black Friday, and Cyber Monday. The second annual GivingTuesday is on December 3rd and we''ve found 124 NTEN Members that are participating!

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Hustler at the end of the world

The Verge

After a long military career, Rob took his talents to the private sector, managing logistics in Sudan, Colombia, and Iraq. Soon after, Rob told Kaplan he had stage four kidney cancer and stopped being able to talk on the phone. “He What do you got in the national stockpile? And gout, which my dad also had.