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5 takeaways on trust in NGOs to manage new innovations and technologies 

Candid

The innovations and technologies mentioned in the survey are: green energy, such as biofuels, liquid hydrogen, and wind and solar power; artificial intelligence, including machine learning, natural language processing, and generative AI; gene-based medicine, such as mRNA vaccines, gene splicing, and gene therapy; and genetically modified foods.

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Cybersecurity: What All Nonprofits Need to Know

The Modern Nonprofit

So, HTTPS and a green lock showing don’t alone prove that the website is legitimate, but a lack of HTTPS is a dead giveaway that inputting any sensitive information into this site is unsafe! Keep in mind, hackers can buy security certificates, too.

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Crowdsourcing Events: The Citizen Gulf Project

NTEN

Concerts took place mainly in the UK and the US, but also in Australia, Japan, France, and a half a dozen other places around the world. jazz, blues, zydeco) and a local green or environmental expert who can say a few things about the oil spill’s impact on the marine environment and the Gulf Coast economies associated with it."

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Lunch Is on Me and My Cell Phone

NTEN

My point is that real currency, the silver and green stuff we lug around, is about to get an upgrade. Paying by mobile is already a done deal in Japan and Europe. Those chips clearly have nothing to do with my lack of will power.). But I digress. The concept is simple. Can you move a $5 donor up the ladder of engagement?

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Interviews with 69 Changemakers: 6th Anniversary of the Big Vision Podcast

Have Fun - Do Good

Organizer, Bakesale for Japan listen Naomi Natale, Founding Artist, One Million Bones listen Halle Butvin, Founder and Director, One Mango Tree listen Carinne Brody, Doctoral Candidate in Public Health at UC Berkeley. Author, The Generosity Plan listen Samin Nosrat, Cook, Teacher, Writer, Accidental Activist.

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Building Refurbished Computers with Volunteers at InterConnection

Tech Soup

During the past few years, InterConnection has also participated in supplying badly needed IT equipment to disaster stricken areas like Chile , Haiti and Pakistan , and Japan. I was going to list all the countries where they send computers, but it’s just too long. Suffice to say that they’re a leader in the U.S.

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Digital Volunteerism – Effective Disaster Relief the GreenTech Way

Tech Soup

It's quite incidental that it's a green technology in that it allows people to have significant impact without needing to travel to stricken areas. Disaster relief is one of the primary activities of the NGO sector, and crowdsourced volunteer digital disaster work is an important and expanding part of it.