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My Triple Ripple of Kindness: Helping Women in San Jose and Kenya

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The inspiration for this program came from a random act of kindness at a Trader Joe’s last year that leveraged $24,000 donation to a local food bank. My random act of kindness was to support women in San Jose by supporting women in Kenya. In addition, Yahoo is amplifying good deeds by the users. Your turn.

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Animals Crossing: AI Helps Protect Wildlife Across the Globe

NVIDIA AI Blog

Combining data from satellites, ground-based cameras, aerial observations and local weather information, OroraTech detects threats to natural habitats and alerts users in real time. The companys technologies monitor more than 30 million hectares of land that directly impact wildlife in Africa and Australia.

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Mile-High disruption: Why Denver should be on your tech radar next year

The Next Web

Stuart Wall, CEO of Signpost , a local advertising platform funded by Spark Capital and Google Ventures. Roughly 1,200 miles away in the heart of Silicon Valley, San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed is pushing for restrictions that will shutter many of the city’s medical marijuana dispensaries. city), restaurants and nightlife.

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Route 66 Hits the News (and the road!)

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Great article today in the San Jose Mercury News. We really appreciate our local partner, C.A.R., Palo Alto company's innovative software uses photos to teach the developmentally disabled. in testing Route 66 and giving us lots of great feedback. Dave Severns and his family's foundation has been our lead funder for Route 66.

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Breakthrough Philanthropy - Thiel Foundation event

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Last night I had the privilege of attending the Breakthrough Philanthropy event put on by Peter Thiel's foundation, covered in the local press with articles like "Silicon Valley billionaire backs futuristic philanthropy" from the San Jose Mercury News. The foundation spotlighted eight unusual nonprofit groups.

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Mobile Tech 4 Social Change Comes to London!

Amy Sample Ward

I’m so excited to see a Mobile Tech 4 Change event coming to London - but super disappointed I can’t be here to participate (I’ll be at N2Y4 Mobile Challenge Conference in San Jose). If you are interested in mobile technology and its application for social change projects, this is definitely an event to check out.

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People are going back to the office — except in the Bay Area

TechCrunch

San Francisco is seeing the lowest attendance rates for office employees in the United States, according to Colin Yasukochi , executive director of real estate brokerage CBRE’s Tech Insights Center. So just how low are attendance rates for office workers in San Francisco? . Silicon Valley is not far behind. in mid-August.