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How Drones Are Being Used to Benefit Humankind

Tech Soup

However, drones are also being used for humanitarian purposes, such as delivering aid, tracking environmental conditions, and helping out in disaster relief. Assessing disaster-stricken areas. Drones also show promise for delivering goods to rural or disaster-stricken areas that would otherwise be inaccessible. Gathering Data.

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Keeping Your 2016 Resolutions with NetSquared's Free Workshops

Tech Soup

Our live, in-person events are hosted by a global network of volunteers dedicated to building strong, self-sufficient local communities of nonprofit technology practitioners. Kitchener, Ontario: Disaster Recovery. Los Angeles, California: ACLU's Mobile Justice App and Mobile Development with Marcus Benigno.

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The 2016 Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar

EveryAction

Center for Nonprofit Management / Los Angeles, CA / Price TBA. The Axelson Center for Nonprofit Management, North Park University / Chicago, IL / Price TBA. Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) / Los Angeles, CA / Not available. AIDF Global Disaster Relief Summit. Marketing.

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10 Ways Geolocation is Changing the World

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

From the global to the local, here are #10Ways geolocation is a positive force for good. It has revolutionized communications on a global scale, and the transformation continues with every status update, blog post, and video stream. The global citizenry has become a global network. Social media has changed the world.

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Grave Work

Non Profit Quarterly

Whether the tasks power autonomous weapons systems raining disaster down on slum districts or else power geographic data for humanitarian agencies that provide aid to such disaster zones is knowledge not available to the workers. But Amazon is less the ‘everything store’, more a universal logistics system.

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