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MindMixer Helps Citizens Engage With Their Communities

How many times have you had a brainstorm on how to improve your local community? MindMixer - a "virtual town hall" - is designed to help organizations communicate more effectively with their communities.

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Non-Profits

How Change.org Puts More Power Into The Hands Of People

Change.org has become an effective marketing machine for mostly non-profit organizations

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Government

3 Ways Social Media Is Reshaping the Political Landscape

The recent political conventions underscored a few disconcerting trends. Our political leadership is not only out of touch with reality but also tends to distort the truth. How can social-media-based innovations address these challenges?

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Non-Profits

Why Starting A Non-Profit To Create Social Change Is A Bad Idea

Combine their penchant for creating social change with their innate entrepreneurial inclinations, and it you might expect a wave of Gen Y-owned non-profits to launch in the next few years. That might still happen, but the latest research suggests that non-profits may not actually be the best way to drive social change.

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Non-Profits

Cartoonist Crusader Launches Fundraiser for Nikola Tesla Museum

Inventor Nikola Tesla may finally get the recognition he deserves if cartoonist Matthew Inman has his way. In a bid to buy the land on which Tesla’s former Shoreham, New York laboratory sits, the creator of The Oatmeal has launched an IndieGoGo fundraising campaign to come up with $850,000 in 45 days.

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Non-Profits

20 Hours Left to Help 300 Kids Learn to Code This Summer [Updated]

Editor's note: Black Girls Code has reached its goal, but you still have until midnight to support the Summer of Code campaign. San Francisco-based Black Girls Code is within a few thousand dollars of funding a campaign that will teach programming to more than 300 kids from underrepresented areas around the U.S. over the next three months.

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Google

World Bank Distances Itself from Google

In January, Google and the World Bank announced a partnership allowing the bank privileged access to Google Map Maker data to support disaster relief efforts. This broke with the bank's trend of supporting open-source initiatives. Developers and NGOs worried that Google's proprietary, for-profit platform operates at odds with the World Bank's…

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Google

Google Partners With World Bank

Google announced a partnership with the World Bank today to make Google Map Maker data more accessible to government organizations in disaster scenarios. Google Map Maker is the tool for crowd-sourcing the editing and maintenance of Google's world map. Its user-generated data include locations of hospitals, schools, settlements, water sources and…

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E-Commerce

KarmaGoat: A Charity Marketplace

Think about how much stuff you have. Are you at your desk? Open the drawer next to you. What's in there? Do you really need all that stuff, or is some of it just taking up space? Is any of it electronic stuff? Any old cell phones or chargers for cameras that broke? What about CDs or DVDs for old operating systems? Does your computer even use…

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Non-Profits

ZURB Design Wants To Help Your Nonprofit Complete A Mission

Silicon Valley design agency ZURB is holding their fourth annual ZURBwired event on August 18, in which the firm donates 24 hours of their time to accomplish one mission for a nonprofit partner, whether it's designing a website, creating a fundraising campaign, or solving any other problem they can think of. The deadline for nonprofits to apply…

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MindMixer Helps Citizens Engage With Their Communities

How Change.org Puts More Power Into The Hands Of People

3 Ways Social Media Is Reshaping the Political Landscape

Why Starting A Non-Profit To Create Social Change Is A Bad Idea

Cartoonist Crusader Launches Fundraiser for Nikola Tesla Museum

20 Hours Left to Help 300 Kids Learn to Code This Summer [Updated]

World Bank Distances Itself from Google

Google Partners With World Bank

KarmaGoat: A Charity Marketplace

ZURB Design Wants To Help Your Nonprofit Complete A Mission