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Alexandra Rampy, Guest Post: The Cool Factor About Mobile

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Organization(s) : The Fair & Lovely Foundation and Hindustan Unilever Limited. Objective : Increase the visibilty and utilization of the Fair & Lovely Foundation’s scholarship program among women and girls in low-income groups in rural and urban India. Cool Factor : Government Goes Mobile. Cool Factor : Mobile Giving.

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The Evolving Relationship Among CSR, Tech, and Nonprofits

Tech Soup

This is Myanmar. In Myanmar, Tableau has worked in partnership with the Myanmar Book Aid and Preservation Foundation, which supports thousands of libraries around the country. Libraries have become places in communities where the people of Myanmar learn about civil society and technology.

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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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United Nations Sets a New Agenda for Global Philanthropy

Tech Soup

Governments, foundations, and charities learned a good deal from working to implement the previous UN goals. The UN Foundation View on Technology. Carolyn Florey, senior health manager at United Nations Foundation , sees technology as a key enabler for the new sustainability goals.

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Empowering Women Citizen Journalists: An Interview with Cristi Hegranes

Have Fun - Do Good

So often, government control, or just lack of access to information and media, prevents people from really being able to be educated and informed about serious issues that are going on around them. I am working with a foundation right now trying to plan out our Africa initiative for the remainder of the year.

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The Hard Problems: A Resilient Civil Society To Face What’s Next

The NonProfit Times

In Uganda and Myanmar. They are increasingly a vector attack, used as pathways for bad actors to get into government or foundation information technology (IT) systems. Traditional funding sources, such as government grants and philanthropic donations, are becoming increasingly unpredictable. Hungary and Iran.

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