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Youth Programs Benefit from Microsoft Donations

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This time I wanted to feature NGOs around the world that are making a humanitarian impact internationally across several countries. How One NGO Serves 70,000 Children. Childreach International serves a large network of international partners in work that involves a great deal of organization and coordination.

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RightsCon: The Promise and Peril of New Communications Technology

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Access , the organizers of RightsCon, who work for digital freedom worldwide, consciously pitched this not as a human rights NGO conference. Some of those questions are: What are the censorship and free speech concerns around video and photo tools and products? Do you have human rights content on your platform?

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How Drones Are Being Used to Benefit Humankind

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Even low-cost hobbyist drones like the Parrot AR drone quadricopter can produce and send high-definition videos and photos to a smartphone or tablet. In December 2013, drones from the NGO Direct Relief were put to work assessing damage and participating in search and rescue operations in the super typhoon Haiyan-stricken Philippines.

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Empowering Change: Caitlin Cohen of the Sigida Keneyali Project

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"Many people imagine international health as this fashionable, sexy, and fun job. Caitlin tells it like it is--the nitty gritty of starting up an NGO, and why she believes it is important to help the people you are serving to create the change they want to see, not to create the change for them. Most of it is administration.

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NpTechTag Summary: Insect Antennae, A Blast from the Past, and More

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Flickr photo from jhritz NpDigg: The Insect Antennae? A Blast from the Past Gavin has posted some really early photos of the founding meetings for Aspiration, NTEN, and the NSNT on flickr. Hence, they're pretty lousy photos. npdigg.org , cooked up by the nonprofittech blog , is up and running. here , using the ICT4peace tag.

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NpTech Tag: Roundups from and about Facebook and More

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Many blogs, like the Razoo blog , went red on Thursday as part of Free Burma: International Bloggers Day. Why not join, upload your logo in the photo pool, and write a wall post promoting your latest your Facebook project! Finding a cure for breast cancer takes more than virtual pink ribbons. and color schemes for your blog.

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Enabling a Participatory Culture using Creative Commons Licenses

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Photo by Pratham Books: Snapshots from Bookaroo 2010 : Children's Literature Festival. At this point, we realised that there were several internal questions to answer and some of them painfully introspective. Bio: Gautam John is a lawyer with a focus on copyright laws. Crossposted at the Creative Commons Weblog.

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