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Not Cause Washing: Facebook and Google Donate To Charities In Lieu of Parties and Gifts

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Feeding America Boys and Girls Clubs Smile Train CARE, Mothers Matter World Wildlife Fund, Natural Capital Project Mobile Creches Prajwala HEAL Africa African Institute for Mathematical Sciences The Mango Tree National Center for Missing and Exploited Children Harlem Children's Zone Save the Children, Latin America focus Reporters Without Borders Witness (..)

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Technology and the Environment

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

We leave that to China, Ghana, and other countries. And as our tools get more and more functional, and slimmer and smaller, and, well, cooler , we’re more than happy to toss the old stuff in the trash. We don’t see or interact with e-waste. E-waste pollutes the environment and poisons people.

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AT&T talks driving innovation through collaboration at Disrupt

TechCrunch

Originally from Ghana, West Africa, Martinson came to the U.S. Clarence Tan is a co-founder of Boddle Learning — a gaming platform for children. Edna Martinson is the co-founder of Boddle Learning — a gamified learning platform that helps K–6 teachers deliver engaging and adaptive math practice and assessments using gameplay and AI.

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The Many Ways to Say I Love You With A Donation To A Charity

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

A number of nonprofit organizations are promoting Valentine's Day giving opportunities, here's a few: A Day for Hearts is an opportunity to raise awareness about congenital heart defects, a lethal constellation of birth defects of the heart that affect millions of newborn infants and children worldwide.

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African edtech startup uLesson raises $15M, backed by Nielsen Ventures and Tencent

TechCrunch

And because parents do want to invest in the best for their kids, one of the ways you can do that is personalized one-to-one instruction for their children, whether in coding through DevKids or math or science or English.”. African edtech startup uLesson lands a $7.5 million Series A.

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Geek Heresy

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

He criticizes the founder of Toms Shoes, Blake Mycoskie, as a prototypical social entrepreneur exploiting disadvantaged children on the way to making a few hundred million selling out to Bain Capital.

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Joitske Hulsebosch: Blogs, NGOs, and Developing Countries

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In Ghana people are interested in knowing about new tools, because they need to stay in touch with what???s An offline newsletter or meeting is very important in Ghana for instance for reaching people as they don???t in Ghana here and a story about the use of a wiki in Zambia by my colleague Saskia here. and that???

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