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6 Ideas for Using the Instagram Donation Sticker to Raise Money

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) shares attention-grabbing staff stories from the front lines, to raise awareness of international crises such as the violent campaign against the Rohingya people in Myanmar: View Story. In terms of posting cadence – how much should you post? Well, it depends!

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Facebook India’s controversial policy chief has resigned

The Verge

Facebook had been slow to take action against many of the Hindu nationalist groups responsible for the violence, leading to concerns that the company was repeating the mistakes that preceded similar violence in Myanmar and Sri Lanka. The official line is that Ankhi Das is leaving to pursue her 'personal interest in public service.'

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Facebook’s India policy chief should step down, say civil rights groups

The Verge

In the letter, the groups cite a range of violent acts linked to Facebook, from genocide in Myanmar to the recent shooting in Kenosha, Wisconsin , which set a troubling precedent for the growing anti-Muslim sentiment in India. In August, Das filed a criminal complaint against a local journalist after a Wall Street Journal report.

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Constructive Disruption: Advancing Social Change Through the Cloud

NTEN

Shortly after a Cyclone struck Myanmar in May 2008, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) created a web-based collaboration portal for aid workers in the region that enabled more than 100 relief organizations to communicate, analyze information and manage resources.

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Constructive Disruption: Advancing Social Change Through the Cloud

NTEN

Shortly after a Cyclone struck Myanmar in May 2008, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) created a web-based collaboration portal for aid workers in the region that enabled more than 100 relief organizations to communicate, analyze information and manage resources.

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Youth Programs Benefit from Microsoft Donations

Tech Soup

It helps endangered Asian children get off the streets in Cambodia, Philippines, Vietnam, India, Indonesia, Pakistan, East Timor, Jordan, Bangladesh, and Myanmar. Before the donation, the organization was using old software, which caused problems when the staff tried to share files externally. The organization has nine full-time staff.

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Crafting Sticky, Emotional Stories That Reach Your Audience (Part 2)

Tech Soup

Myanmar Fisherman Goes Home After 22 Years as a Slave by Margie Mason. The best way to do this is to pick one topic for the story, and keep all the other information not directly related at the bottom of your current document or even in a separate file. Scroll through the first few paragraphs of these excellent stories: In D.C.,

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