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Global Social Benefit Incubator™ Alumni will soon be featured in the Social Entrepreneur API alongside social entrepreneurs who have received fellowship and awards from Civic Ventures, the Draper Richards Foundation, PopTech, the Schwab Foundation, and the Skoll Foundation.
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What’s unfolding in Haiti , as search-and-rescue is evolving into the challenge of managing the distribution of food and water, getting people into safe spaces, reconnecting them with their lost family and friends, and providing some sort of vision for the days and months ahead, bears out the critical importance of a skilled wrangling of information, especially when so much of life’s more tangible things have been upended. The thing is, wrangling information just also happens to be one of the things that modern technologists are best at.
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One of the most interesting projects that has emerged during the response to the earthquake in Haiti is Ushahidi, a free and open source platform that “allows anyone to gather distributed data via SMS, email or web and visualize it on a map or timeline.” In short, the goal is to create the simplest way of aggregating information from the public for use in crisis response.
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Shocking photos from Haiti sparked an outpouring of donations—but why do Americans only give when they see the drama unfold on TV? Matthew Bishop and Michael Green, authors of Philanthrocapitalism, on the nature of sympathy.
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Because more mergers simply make sense: “This week Mobilize.org announced it would acquire the assets, staff and programs of Generation Engage. In some ways, it’s surprising to see this merger because it’s not something done every day. In other ways, it’s not surprising at all.”
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Philanthropy and nonprofit management expert Susan Carey Dempsey is the editor-in-chief of onPhilanthropy.com. 
Veteran consultant, journalist and entrepreneur Tom Watson is the author of CauseWired: Plugging In, Getting Involved, Changing the World, a new book about online social activism. 
Social media and philanthropy evaluation expert Allison Fine is the author of Momentum: Igniting Social Change in the Connected Age. 
Veteran development consultant Stephen Manzi is a recognized national leader in nonprofit management and fundraising strategy. 
Tom, thanks for drawing attention to the latest expansion of the Social Entrepreneur API among other noteworthy aggregations (whether data-level or incorporation-level) ~
Christine