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Hot on Idealist News: An Inspiring Guy; Tracking a Crisis; Jumo

Posted by Scott Stadum.


From Flickr user whiteafrican IdealistNews is a project of Idealist.org and Reddit where users like you can submit nonprofit news stories from around the web and vote on your favorites. Here's a roundup of some recent hot stories (titled the way users submitted them).

From this week:

• Obit for an inspiring guy. He wrote a book called "Just and Lasting Change." Using real examples he showed how we can actually deliver proven treatments to the poorest communities that need them most around the globe...
• Africa’s Gift to Silicon Valley: How to Track a Crisis
• Retired Queens businessman looks to make Forrest Gump-like run across U.S. for charity
• 5 Charities I think are worth Supporting, please share yours in the Comments area on the link
• Facebook Co-Founder Launches Non-Profit Platform Called Jumo

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