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Impact investing: Catalyzing systemic change 

Candid

According to Fidelity Charitable , it’s “the act of purposefully making investments that help achieve certain social and environmental benefits while generating financial returns.” MRIs are not an IRS-recognized class of investments but a publicly stated practice of aligning profit-making investments with broad organizational goals.

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64 Online Stores That Benefit Nonprofits and the Greater Good

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Global Goods Partners have partnered with over 60 artisan groups in more than 20 countries throughout Asia, Africa, and the Americas to help bring to market the fair trade, handcrafted products they produce. 13) Helping Rhinos Shop :: helpingrhinos.org/shop. 13) Helping Rhinos Shop :: helpingrhinos.org/shop.

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48 Online Stores That Benefit Nonprofits and the Greater Good

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Global Goods Partners have partnered with over 60 artisan groups in more than 20 countries throughout Asia, Africa, and the Americas to help bring to market the fair trade, handcrafted products they produce. All proceeds go towards helping the Sierra Club promote the responsible use of the earth’s ecosystems and resources.

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Need Hands-on Help? NetSquared's Free Workshops Are in Your Community

Tech Soup

Technology helps nonprofits deliver on our missions more effectively, but it can also be fiendishly complicated. In Peru, the group explored how Azure can help NGOs and in Tanzania , people learned about the concept of cloud productivity services. The link need to be like so: Africa. Africa and Middle East. Europe and UK.

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Weekly update from PND

Candid

government effort to deliver at least 40 percent of the benefits from federal investments in climate and clean energy to disadvantaged communities; $51 million in support of land restoration in the United States and Africa; and $1.5 Grants totaling $23.5 million in support of tracking and monitoring efforts. public health system.

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CEO’s Update: Fall 2014

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

To do so, we definitely need your help. To help now, please use the Donate Form on Benetech''s website and give whatever you can. Human Rights Our Human Rights Program continues to focus on helping activists and journalists securely document the stories of human rights abuses worldwide. billion poor and unbanked.

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TweetsGiving: Show Your Gratitude With Epic Change

Amy Sample Ward

Last year, funds from TweetsGiving helped build a classroom in Tanzania. Earlier this month, we interviewed Avi Kaplan from Epic Change, and asked him what they were up to in Africa: What are you up to right now in Africa? Tags: events fundraising africa epic change tweetsgiving. Why TweetsGiving? Get Involved.

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