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Nepal Earthquake Roundup: Emergency Fundraising Attention Cycle

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

” Nancy Schwartz has an fantastic blog post offering expert advice on how nonprofits should communicate during a crisis, using the situation in Baltimore and the Nepal Earthquake as hooks to offer some recommendations. The CDP Nepal Earthquake Recovery Fund focuses on medium- and long-term rebuilding and recovery.

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NepaLinux

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Interesting article about the localization of linux in Nepal. Similar language, cultural, and access issues as Cambodia.

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Posts from the Skoll World Forum

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Just some quick examples: - Heidi Kuhn of Roots of Peace: Heidi has actually driven a great deal of real landmine removal, and she is very strong on the human and public side of the issue (somewhere where we are not strong). and more.

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Meet Donna Callejon, Chief Operating Officer of Global Giving

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Two of my favorite projects, both of which hit on several key issues at once: Rescuing Young Girls from Bonded Labor in Nepal - this project buys a family in Nepal a pig to generate income so that they don't have to sell their daughter into servitude to pay for family expenses.

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Tech Across Your Org: Program and Fundraising Innovation Sprung from an Internal Technology Project

NTEN

[Editor's note: The following is an article from the March 2012 issue of NTEN:Change. Read the rest of the issue when you subscribe to the journal for free! ] In the early years, we were working in China, Nepal, Cambodia, and Ethiopia, where we now purify water for over 200,000 kids daily.

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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. Many of our trainees and journalists in Nepal do have children. BB: So right now you work in Nepal and in Mexico? CH: Yes, we do.

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Data Digest: Open Data for Africa Platform, Silent Data Revolution in MENA and Data Strategies

Tech Soup

The Open Aid Partnership , held Open Nepal Week’s Data Literacy Bootcamp, which gathered over 80 Nepali journalists, developers, coders, and civil society representatives to find, extract, and analyze and visualize public data.