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Attention Data Nerds: The Future is Now: Mobile Strategies for Social Impact

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

For those of us in the social sector, the promise of universal access raises a host of new possibilities to improve economic, educational, health, and social conditions in underserved communities. My favorite example of how mobile technology is literally putting power in the hands, pockets and purses of people is Fresno BusTracker.

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Member Round Up: Happy Labor Day Weekend!

NTEN

Now in its third year, the conference is the largest Agile community event serving the DC metro area, and is an opportunity for folks, from Agile novices to experienced pracitioners, to gather, exchange ideas, and learn from leading local luminaries. co-author of the Agile Manifesto, and founding member of The AgileAlliance.

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Amazon’s Fire TV is adding local news in many more cities

The Verge

Amazon’s thoughtful expansion of local news content on its Fire TV devices is a strong testament to the power of local news to keep communities safe and informed through everything 2020 has brought us, and everything ahead in 2021,” Brian Lawlor, Scripps’ president of local media, said in today’s press release. Fresno, CA. Dallas, TX.

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Community Science Workshops and Shared Authorship of Space: Interview with Emilyn Green

Museum 2.0

Imagine the most community-based science center possible. Imagine it in a poor, immigrant farmworker community. In a Community Science Workshop. A couple months ago, I visited a Community Science Workshop for the first time in Watsonville, CA. Can you give me the overview of Community Science Workshops? It thrives.

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Tiny homes: A big solution for disaster recovery

Fast Company Tech

Hes had a front-row view of the need and the power of public/private partnerships to accomplish projects such as the Rio Mesa master-planned community of 15,000 on the north side of Fresno, California, as well as Tesoro Vieja, a 400-acre planned lake community in the states Central Valley.

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University & Higher Education Advertising + Fundraising Study

Whole Whale

The study specifically excluded institutions without employees, museums, religious institutions, hospitals, and membership organizations to focus on traditional higher education institutions like Harvard, NYU, Johns Hopkins, Duke, and others.