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Luxury yacht owners are throwing scientists a lifeline

Fast Company Tech

With scientific equipment packed and a team of seven researchers ready, the marine biologist found himself scanning the horizon for solutions. A dive during an expedition last year to Silver Banks, a whale sanctuary in the Dominican Republic, organized by Bering Yachts. There are dozens of research vessels registered in the U.S.,

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Bowser arrested and charged for selling Nintendo Switch hacks

The Verge

Two members of a console hacking and piracy organization known as Team Xecuter have been arrested and charged with fraud , one of whom is named Gary Bowser. Team Xecuter is a sophisticated operation known best for its Nintendo hacks, including a USB device called the SX Pro that allows the Nintendo Switch to run pirated games.

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Support IPPF’s mobile health clinics and teams in Haiti!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

  Photo from International Planned Parenthood Federation/Western Hemisphere Region showing the complete devastation of its PROFAMIL Haiti clinic.   This organization is part of a 40 member organization network called International Planned Parenthood Federation/Western Hemisphere Region (IPPF/WHR).  

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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 byproduct of that is that anyone in the company can build their own metrics for their teams,” co-founder Xavier Pladevall told TechCrunch. Both came to college in the U.S.,

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The 12th Issue of NTEN: Change is Out - "Outcomes & Impact"

NTEN

Prior to joining NTEN in 2013, I worked in the human rights field with Social Accountability International (SAI). Much of 2010 was focused on Project Cultivar, which worked in the Dominican Republic sugarcane plantations and its company towns, bateyes. Get started!

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8 startups that leveraged products for social good, and where they’re headed in 2014

The Next Web

Also in the New Year, Rosenberg’s team of five is continuing to partner with various organizations like the National Alzheimer’s Association, to reach a new audience and provide a product that’s not only stand out, but does good. Similar to a Kickstarter model, these campaigns use products to fund projects.

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7 Nonprofits Leading the Fight Against Human Trafficking

Saleforce Nonprofit

Since moving its systems to Salesforce, the team has been able to stay lean by cutting out hours of what used to be manual data entry and management of disparate spreadsheets and applications. Destiny Rescue is a Christian-based nonprofit that rescues children who are being trafficked. This image is from a trafficking awareness session.