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TechSoup Local Impact Map Profile: Nonprofits Back to School — In Brazil

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Our theme this month is educational nonprofits like The Luciano Bareto Júnior Institute in Brazil. Education Is a Major Nonprofit Activity. Education is a major focus for nonprofits and NGOs, accounting for 9% of NGO activity worldwide. Back to School in Brazil. Even in the U.S.,

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Kids and Philanthropy: Teaching Your Children To Be Charitable

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I also want to them to discover and follow their own sense of social activism and philanthropy and become Philanthroteens , teens with a passion for social change who grew up not knowing what it was like to not to have a cell phone or not to be connected to Facebook. Children for Children Foundation. Youth in Philanthropy.

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TechSoup Local Impact Map Profile: Nonprofits Back to School — In Brazil

Tech Soup

Our theme this month is educational nonprofits like The Luciano Bareto Júnior Institute in Brazil. Education Is a Major Nonprofit Activity. Education is a major focus for nonprofits and NGOs, accounting for 9% of NGO activity worldwide. Back to School in Brazil. Even in the U.S.,

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Let’s All Pull Together: Reflections from Harambee 2023

Candid

She and my great-grandfather worked as sharecroppers while raising eight children. There were many activities lined up that were centered around Black joy. Panelists from Brazil, Kenya, and Jamaica discussed the importance of empowering communities in the African diaspora. From karaoke night and the Sneaker Ball to the James A.

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Lessons from 2019 to maximize future disaster giving decisions

Candid

Nonprofits need support to engage in activities that influence disaster-related policies. Funding community organizing efforts can activate and engage residents to change those systems. . Disasters often expose inequities that already exist. Local knowledge is crucial, as is trusting the expertise of affected communities.

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The Impact of Your Donation: Ivana Braga, 14NTC Scholarship Recipient, Shares

NTEN

Rede Amiga da Criança is committed to ensuring the rights of children and youth vulnerable and at risk, primarily the street kids in São Luís (MA), through collective actions by governmental and non-governmental organizations. I came back to Brazil in July, and I am doing a lot based on what I have learned at the NTC.

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Future of Social: Gen Z

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

No matter your position or place in life, it is imperative to create opportunities for children, so that we can grow up to blow you away.”. It’s the reason we’re not in the Dark Ages anymore. And they are already blowing us away. Gen Z have (social) entrepreneurial spirit in their DNA.

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