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Open Source and the Promise of Sustainable Nutrition Security

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Recently I had the opportunity to get introduced to Gerald Nelson , senior climate change researcher and Professor Emeritus at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. This week, on September 10-12 at Purdue University, CIMSANS will be co-hosting a workshop and summit focused on improving food systems data and models.

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Please Join VisionLink In Welcoming Aaron Titus To Our Proud Family!

VisionLink

Aaron has spent seven years as the Privacy Fellow for the Washington DC policy institute Liberty Coalition. from the George Washington School of Law, and his undergraduate degree in Architecture from the University of Utah. He has testified before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs.

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Amnesty International at 50

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Today, I gave a presentation on human rights in DC, with a focus on our work with truth commissions. The newly formed organization initially based its demands on select parts of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and on the Prisoners of Conscience campaign.

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The R in M+R

M+R

Donald was a deeply committed colleague, a lifelong and tireless advocate, the brains behind many movements that exist today, and an inspiration and friend to many of us in the social change universe. And, yes, also the reason M+R exists. . But here’s the thing: founding and running M+R is just one of his many accomplishments.

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Why I Love the Caltech Y

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

I was particularly fond of the talk series, where important policy makers and leaders would come to Caltech and talk to 15 or 20 people at the Y and drink Mountain Chablis! They had just take a group of students to Washington DC to meet Caltech alums working in science policy, but they want to go further.

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Blogging with our brains and hearts

Deborah Elizabeth Finn

McNutt Professor School of Public Policy & Administration University of Delaware Software to Support Program Evaluation Laura S. But this isn't a blog that merely aggregates what is heartfelt; it provides a cross-section of some important strategic and tactical thinking: Does Nonprofit Electronic Advocacy Work?

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Data Are Not Information

NTEN

As a result, the conditions under which data become information look different every day, whether in journalism, government, health care, education, publishing, philanthropy, policy research, nonprofit work, advocacy or countless other fields. This makes it possible to do many things that previously could not be done.

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