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UpEnergy: cool for-profit social enterprise

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

He's joined forces with other social entrepreneurs in the field to found UpEnergy , a new for-profit social enterprise that wants to scale the impact of their successful pilot projects. They are already active in Africa and Latin America, in countries like Uganda, Rwanda, Liberia, El Salvador, Mexico, Guatemala and Nicaragua.

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Announcing… 31 New Favorite Nonprofits for 2013!

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Ewaso Lions is a focused conservation research project in Samburu, Kenya that is working to conserve Kenya’s lions while improving livelihoods of local people. The American Nicaraguan Foundation is a nonprofit that provides basic needs and tools for people to help stop poverty in Nicaragua. Ewaso Lions :: @ EwasoLions.

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New Blog: Forum One Field Notes

Forum One

So when Angie Milton, a Forum One Project Officer, decided to take a six-month sabbatical to volunteer in Nicaragua, we realized that it was time for us to eat our own dog food. Angie is already blogging regularly about her work for the San Juan del Sur Sister City Project in Nicaragua.

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You can see fires, but now Qwake wants firefighters to see through them

TechCrunch

A lot of projects were focused on predicting volcanic eruptions and looking at using sensor networks and different things of that nature to make people who live in those regions that are exposed to volcanic threats safer.”. During one project in Nicaragua, his team suddenly found itself lost amidst the smoke of an active volcano.

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Collective Lens: Photography for Social Change

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The project's intent is to educate and inform the public on important issues around the world, and connect individuals to organizations. Or check out the photos from Kathy Adams who runs Empowerment International and has been sharing photos from Nicaragua and Costa Rica that show the impact of her organization's work.

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Go Holiday Shopping with Your Global Girlfriend

Have Fun - Do Good

The creators of Global Girlfriend's merchandise come from all over the world: Brazil, Ethiopia, India, Indonesia, Nepal, Nicaragua, South Africa, Thailand, the United States and Vietnam.

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a16z, NFX back Latitud’s effort to become ‘the operating system for every venture-backed company in LatAm’

TechCrunch

We’ve worked together on a number of projects since then,” Flint told TechCrunch. “I Mexico, Colombia, Nicaragua, Uruguay, Panama, Argentina and Spain. . NFX General Partner Pete Flint noted that he has known and worked with Requarth for over a decade, since he was an early investor and advisor in VivaReal. “We’ve