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Russia rights groups get help from Microsoft

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

We've seen this happen in places like Russia. That's why it's heartening to read an article like this in the Christian Science Monitor, Russia rights groups get help from unlikely champion: Microsoft. A government could suppress a group using "piracy" as a reason, rather than criticism of the government.

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ATTN NGOs: ?????,??, &.opr Are Now Available

Nonprofit Tech for Good

million people in Russia using Russian Cyrillic as the official alphabet for their national language. The need for these localized scripts is clearly indicated in numbers below: 143.5 497 million people speaking Hindi as a first language and 120 million as a second language. billion people speaking and writing in some form of Chinese.

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Good Morning from Russia!

Get Fully Funded

I’m here to teach a class at the NGO Masterschool for Nonprofits this week and will be sharing some with you, my readers, about what fundraising is like in non-communist Russia. Tags: Fundraising in Russia. Believe me, it’s very different than it is for most of the rest of us! Stay tuned!!

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World Map of Social Media

NCE Social Media

Outside of Russia and most of Asia, Facebook (the blue countries) is now the main player. Only three years ago you can see that there are many different social networks dominating in different countries. As social networks have matured and the weaker networks have faded away, you can see what is left. What are your thoughts on using Facebook?

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Fundraising lessons we can use from Ukraine

Hands on Fundraising

It was an important moment, as he needs to constantly seek support for the attacks his country is experiencing from Russia. Shortly before last Christmas, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the president of an embattled Ukraine, spoke to the U.S. He knows the U.S. has the greatest means of support. This is definitely emergency fundraising.

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Today's Five Leadership Quotes

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Glasgow I praise loudly, I blame softly -- Catherine II of Russia Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress -- Mohandas Gandhi A long dispute means that both parties are wrong -- Voltaire The least questioned assumptions are often the most questionable -- Paul Broca These and many more compelling quotes can be found in Susan H.

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How You Can Help The People of Ukraine Right Now

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American University in Bulgaria created a fund to support students affected by the conflict between Russia and Ukraine. UNICEF is mobilizing to provide humanitarian access to families and children who have suffered the adverse effects of the conflict between Russia and Ukraine. American University in Bulgaria. Voices of Children.

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