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Research Friday: Generosity Expanded: The Impact!

ASU Lodestar Center

This level of increased global philanthropy is worth a further look. The Hudson Institute’s Center for Global Prosperity recently published its Annual Index of Global Philanthropy and Remittances for 2010 and reported “financial flows to the developing world from the United States increased notably in 2010 to $326.4

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Green Technology Summit Heads to Europe (and It's Kind Of a Big Deal)

Tech Soup

In 2012, EU countries discarded 10.9 In the United Kingdom alone, the average person will throw away over 3 tons of electronics in his or her lifetime. Another TechSoup Global partner, Ateliers du Bocage , is located in rural France and operates one of the largest mobile phone remanufacturing plants in the country.

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Technology for Whom? Owning Our Platforms

Non Profit Quarterly

Amazon, born in 1995 as an online bookstore, grew by the 2000s to become the largest global e-commerce platform company in existence. Globally, the number of platform companies rose five times between 2010 and 2021; 2 and, as of 2022, about 20 percent of all market commerce in the United States is now conducted online.

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