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Announcing Our First Impact Labs Cohort on Zero Hunger: Addressing Food Insecurity in the U.S.

Saleforce Nonprofit

Today, we’re introducing our first Salesforce.org Impact Labs cohort on zero hunger and their work on U.S Impact Labs convenes community experts, or fellows, across sectors to co-create new technology solutions to support specific issue areas. We all know that hunger is a complex and growing problem. Food Insecurity.

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Can love change the world? I hope so!

Amy Sample Ward

What would happen, instead, if organizations focused on eliminating hunger?) She originally founded the Voice of Women Organization (VWO) to educate girls in Kabul in secret schools under the Taliban, and has since expanded to support and assist underprivileged women and children throughout Afghanistan. Are you fueling with love?

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Index nabs $2.6M seed to create BI dashboards without coding

TechCrunch

Index founders, Xavier Pladevall and Eduardo Portet, have been friends since they were small children in the Dominican Republic. The two founders and their families have been friends since they were children. and both interned at large companies — Pladevall at Facebook and Portet worked at Metadata in New York.

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Announcing Our Second Impact Labs Cohort on Zero Hunger: Supporting Small-Scale Farmers Globally

Saleforce Nonprofit

Hunger is a global issue that affects everyone, everywhere. A couple of weeks ago, we announced our first cohort on Zero Hunger, focusing on food insecurity in the United States. But as we know, getting to Zero Hunger will take collaboration from all regions, with multiple approaches to address the contributing factors.

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Happy Thanksgiving!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

According to the Food Research and Action Center , more than 36 million people lived in households in America struggling against hunger in 2007. Though the numbers aren't in, it must be likely be higher in 2008 as this article by David Cay Johnston in the New York Times points out. Hunger isn't just a problem in America.

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How Chestnut Ridge Church Reinvents the Church Experience with Technology

Tech Soup

It's an evangelical church with astonishing programs that attracts the crowds, including celebrities like former New York Giants quarterback, Jeff Hostetler, and his family. Jeff Hostetler is the New York Giants surprise 1990 Super Bowl-winning quarterback who now coaches a local high school football team.

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Making sense of Klarna

TechCrunch

But there is one caveat: he doesn’t think first-generation immigrants in Sweden do nearly as well as their children. That’s kind of the unfortunate part of this, but that has obviously created a massive amount of hunger with me.”. market, choosing New York and L.A. over San Francisco for its American offices.

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