More Women needed for Wikipedia

Wikipedia is run by a non-profit--- out of all the contributors, only 13% are women. Do you hear that ladies?

http://bit.ly/2LzYs2

Source: The Wall Street Journal

Call for Papers

http://www2010.org/www/authors/cfp

•• C A L L F O R P A P E R S <2>•<0>•<1>•<0>
19th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2010)
April 26-30, 2010
Raleigh, North Carolina USA

Key dates for authors: 2009/10/10 --
Workshop proposals due 2009/10/26 --
Abstracts due for papers and demos 2009/11/02 --
Papers and demos due 2009/11/15 --
Tutorial proposals due

Main topics of interest:

-- Search
-- Data Mining and Machine Learning
-- Bridging Structured and Unstructured Data
-- Social Networks
-- Semantic Web
-- Security and Privacy
-- Internet Monetization
-- Software Architecture and Infrastructure
-- Performance, Scalability and Availability
-- Networking and Mobility
-- Users Interfaces and Rich Interaction
-- Rich Media

Unethical E-Waste Recycling

http://tinyurl.com/nxqzow


Shame on Executive Recycling in Denver, CO and other western states in the US. They got a government contract to expand their private recycling business. 42 other American recycling businesses are guilty of the same thing.


Chinese killing their own children for profit, again.

UCI has programs cut

http://www.newu.uci.edu/main/article?slug=uci_cuts_five_sports195

Five athletic programs are being cut from The University of California at Irvine, including its NCAA Division I swim team.

The UCI phD in Social Ecology has also been done away with.

Stop Child Abductions

http://thejoyfulchild.org/

- founded by a mother of a little girl who was abducted and murdered.

Children learn self defense and self preservation.

Help Music Education, Get Free Airline Tickets

http://www.vh1savethemusic.com/node/5000

Take the money (just $300.00) you would be spending for a plane ticket, donate it to VH1's Save the Music Foundation, and get the roundtrip ticket for free from Jet Blue (good for one year)!

This is a major WIN/WIN for everyone.

Keep music in our schools.

From Migrant Farm Worker to Brain Surgeon

The amazing story of the amazing Dr. Q!

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sciencenow/0303/03.html

World Food Programme

Schools stayed open in Kenya this summer to provide children their only meal of the day, which they would bring home to share with their families.


http://www.wfp.org/

Tweeting from Space!

Jose is a true inspiration. He began his astronaut training at age 41. He is the son of migrant field workers, who are very proud of him. He has a master's degree in Engineering and an honorary doctorate from University of The Pacific in Stockton, CA.

@Astro_Jose
www.twitter.com/Astro_Jose

The Center for Media Change

http://www.crimeaftercrime.com/

This documentary is a project of The Center for Media Change, a 501c3 non-profit.

It is about an abused woman, the murder of her abuser, and the justice sytem.

Nau Grants

please vote for Peace Tiles for The Nau Grant!

http://www.nau.com/collective/grant-for-change/lars-hasselblad-torres---peace-tiles-964.html

An Inspiration

http://tinyurl.com/mp2k3b

From the projects, onto the stage, to Cornell to advising young people--

Roxanne Shante, the first queen of hip hop music.

Ending Generational Poverty

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=94977387


Parents go to 'Baby College', learn to educate their children.

How in the private industry, leadership and policy will affect your constituents (customers)--

Think again before you buy*


Case Study: Fiji Water
http://bit.ly/1GLCNT

affected: human rights, prisoners rights


Case: Rock Star Energy Drinks
http://bit.ly/7XMRX

affected: gay rights

Embedded Giving--

http://philanthropy.blogspot.com/2008/07/embedded-giving20.html




Rounding up from a bigger purchase gives donors way to give, on top of an existing purchase.

Healthy School Lunches poster

interesting debate over posters:

'President Obama's children get healthy school lunches. why don't I?'

http://www.healthyschoollunches.org/