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Social Capital Markets
Steven Pearlstein, Washington Post, describes an interesting, pseudo-cooperative model for sharing the resources of smaller community banks with the goal of making them more viable lenders to middle market companies and less dependent on real estate. Could this be analogous to the innovation needed to ready impact investors for prime time (in partnership with others) on the recommended lists of the major wealth managers?
MIX Maverick and Chief Innovation Officer for Dell Services Jim Stikeleather says that for an idea to be innovative it has to be forward-thinking, viable, sustainable, and valuable. Watch now
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Strategic Planning
This is it. The strategic plan is the culmination of a collaborative process undertaken by the Wikimedia Foundation and the global community of Wikimedia project volunteers through 2009 and 2010.
Code for America | A New Kind of Public Service
Currently civic leaders have to start from scratch when wanting to leverage tech to engage citizens. Engagement Commons aims to be a dynamic resource that both catalogs engagement-focused civic technology and highlights stories of successful use cases.Random Hacks of Kindness is built on a global community of dedicated people working to make a difference all around the world. We want the rest of the world to know a bit more about the individual members who make up this incredible community, so will be working to bring you interviews on a regular basis with some of the RHoKstars who are putting their time toward RHoK--organizing, promoting, inspiring and hacking for humanity. Our first interview is with Heather Leson , 3-time RHoK organizer, mentor for numerous first-time RHoK leads, and one of RHoK's most dedicated evangelists! After years in Internet provisioning, event planning, project management and incident management, I answered to call of tech for social good following the earthquake in Haiti.
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Hack for Change
Hacking for social good is more than just a hacktivist reaction to injustice. Many developers and designers are taking a proactive approach to affecting social change by making web apps that aim to improve individual lives and whole communities, too. At a recent event in San Francisco, about 100 hackers of all stripes gathered to do exactly that: work around the clock for 24 hours to create apps for social good. This resulted in 17 (still quite new) web and mobile applications with a slightly higher aim than that of your average consumer app. The hackathon, called Hack for Change , was sponsored by Change.org , and was intended to allow some of the smartest people in the Bay Area to create “any feature or app that does good.” The winners of the day, all of whom received a small cash infusion to help continue building and launching their apps, were three stellar ideas from local devs.
And on Thursday, @ katelordphoto @cjbrandt go to Bangalore, INDIA to visit @ shantibhavan !! Any travel tips from anyone who's been there? 22 hrs ago Next weekend, @ tammytibbetts @tehrene @ carlablumenthal take on Washington DC to visit the US homebase of our Uganda partner! @ aahuganda 22 hrs ago
She's the First | Girls' Education in the Developing World
Canada, 21 what inspires me? well music, i believe that a good song can help you travel away. I mean just by listening a good song you can forget everything, free your imagination and be... ( Read more ) Ottawa, Ontario, Canada,
Canada - TakingITGlobal
The Treehouse Talks are back to their usual schedule! From 6:30-8:15 pm, Friday February 10, 2012, join us at the Toronto Reference Library ( 789 Yonge St ) . How can we recover from having used not one but two webcams at the last set of Treehouse Talks? With chocolate.
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Philanthroper - Banned from Combat, But Still in the Battle
Every person deserves for their childhood to be a memorable, positive time; but for many Afghan children, this experience is instead spent in women's prisons. Too often, when women lose their husbands in Afghanistan, their lives are taken on a spiral and they end up in prison, forced to raise their children in this tumultuous situation. These conditions prompted a group of women in Queens to create a program to support the development and education of imprisoned Afghani women as well as their children. Women for Afghan Women works across Afghanistan in eight different provinces.Join us on Tuesday May 8th and Wednesday May 9th for a specially discounted one-year GrantStation membership promotion. This promotion is available to eligible Canadian nonprofits, charities and libraries for only $100 , a savings of $205 over TechSoup Canada's regular administrative fee.