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Greenfunder funds socially responsible projects and businesses. Target audience: Nonprofits, social enterprises, NGOs, foundations, businesses, educators. This is part one of a two-part series on crowdsourcing. By Lindsay Oberst Socialbrite staff High-quality work at a low cost. That’s what crowdsourcing can achieve for nonprofts that wish to save money while pursuing their mission. Crowdsourcing refers […]
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Crowdflower: Toward a world of crowdsourced labor
Crowdflower: Toward a crowdsourced world from JD Lasica on Vimeo. One of the most interesting start-ups that keeps popping up on my radar screen is Crowdflower, which connects nonprofits and companies with people around the globe looking to work on crowdsourced tasks. It’s a fascinating glimpse at future contract labor models and at how work […]
Helping Haitians via mobile, crowdsourcing & social media
New platform revolutionizes the way emergency response takes place Guest post by Katrina Heppler envisionGood.tv Bravo to the thousands of volunteers worldwide who are assisting with translating Creole mobile text messages to help people in Haiti following the devastating 7.0M earthquake that struck the nation Jan. 12. You may not have heard of Mission 4636, […]
An app to support refugees working in Africa
CrowdFlower & Samasource tap the cloud to fight poverty A new free iPhone application, Give Work, released today lets iPhone users use their phones to provide work to refugees in Africa. The project, a collaboration of Samasource and Crowdflower, lets you support refugees working in a datacenter in Dadaab, Kenya — the world’s largest refugee […]
Samasource to host GiveWork Gala in SF
The Bay Area nonprofit Samasource will host the first GiveWork Charity Gala on Nov. 12 at the University Club of San Francisco, bringing together writers, luminaries, and some of the most influential women entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley. The event will feature a live auction, with items for bid including a conversation with Nobel Prize laureates […]
