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Digital Divide Data: our Partner in Laos

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

For example, our Bookshare online library for the blind, uses several different social enterprises to do data entry and proofreading work on textbooks. and ship the images and recognized text to Laos (and several other countries with other partners, including of course the U.S.). The head of DDD's Laos office is Ms.

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27 Recommended Affordable or Free Nonprofit Software Tools

Bloomerang

Kelly Lao, Executive Director at the German American Heritage Center, said the Bloomerang system allowed the GAHC to turn more lapsed or new donors into sustained givers. Top feature: Adobe users have access to a robust asset library of over 195 million royalty-free Adobe Stock collection photos, videos, and music.

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Seamless Data Analytics Workflow: From Dockerized JupyterLab and MinIO to Insights with Spark SQL

Towards Data Science

Docker containers bundle up an application with everything it needs (like libraries and other dependencies) and ship it as one package. This box (or image) includes the code, runtime, system tools, libraries, and settings — basically all the necessary parts that are required to run the application. enableHiveSupport().getOrCreate()

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7 Nonprofits Leading the Fight Against Human Trafficking

Saleforce Nonprofit

The organization operates in Thailand, Cambodia, the Philippines, Laos, Dominican Republic and India and also has offices in three donor nations: United States, Australia and New Zealand. Problem: In years past, Hagar relied on an extensive library of Excel files to document contact with each client that would come seeking help.

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Normalizing seeking support for mental health takes collective action

Candid

National Library of Medicine. Chinese philosopher Lao-Tzu reminds us that “a journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.” Develop coping skills : These are methods you use to deal with stressful situations. They may help you face a problem, take action, be flexible, and not easily give up in solving it. —U.S.

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