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From co-founder to ousted CEO of 500px: Trials, errors, and lessons learned

The Next Web

Started in the early 2000s as a community on the LiveJournal blogging platform, 500px has become one of the most popular places in the internet to store professional and amateur photos, with more than 50 million images in its archives. For some… This story continues at The Next Web.

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

The Next Web

But in addition to this, the platform – or “the skinny,” as its founders so deftly describe it – is the chance to sign up and volunteer your professional (or personal!) know-how to non-profits and small businesses that need it, but don’t exactly have a huge cashflow. You can’t talk back to your baked goods – or can you?

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

  These mobile health unit teams, consisting of medical doctors, nurses, and volunteer staff, have extensive experience in working with Haitian immigrants living in the Dominican Republic.     Less than one-half of all births are attended by a skilled health professional

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Lessons Learned From A Twitterthon

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Those funds allowed us to pay for the pre-prep for the wordless book that’s the centerpiece of The Born2Fly Project—illustrations, design work, professional scanning, and a lot more. 9. Get professional help when you need it. I’m a writer, but I knew I needed more professional help to write a targeted news release.

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7 Nonprofits Leading the Fight Against Human Trafficking

Saleforce Nonprofit

At AnnieCannons, an anti-human trafficking organization, they transform survivors of human trafficking into software professionals through a holistic program that trains and equips survivors to independently support themselves and their families.

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How foreign workers helped spur Spain’s rapid economic growth

Fast Company Tech

Emily Soto, originally from the Dominican Republic, serves tables at the cafe. Contractor Vctor Lisbona in Barcelona said fellow Spaniards no longer follow in their parents footsteps, and estimates that around 80% of the carpenters, electricians, and construction professionals he has worked with are foreigners.

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