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Announcing Our Second Impact Labs Cohort on Zero Hunger: Supporting Small-Scale Farmers Globally

Saleforce Nonprofit

Hunger is a global issue that affects everyone, everywhere. An estimated 811 million people are hungry globally. Supporting them is not only essential to the global community’s food supply, but also to the day-to-day well-being of the communities in which they work and live. Why Small-Scale Farmers?

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Vietnam and Indonesia Join TechSoup Asia’s Growing Family

Tech Soup

We proudly welcome NGO partners Vietnet-ICT and the Lin Centre in Vietnam, as well as ASEAN Foundation , Kopernik Marketplace , and YCAB Foundation in Indonesia to the TechSoup Global family. They are all part of TechSoup Asia , which serves charities in the Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand — and now Vietnam and Indonesia.

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Microsoft YouthSpark: A New Chapter in Citizenship at Microsoft

Tech Soup

Among others, the International Youth Foundation identified these troubling global trends. In Brazil, approximately 40% of firms have difficulty finding qualified staff to fill vacancies due to low quality education. In Asia, we see a large number of working poor, particularly in rural. In Asia, 70% of working youth.

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Bringing Women a Global Voice: Jensine Larsen, World Pulse

Have Fun - Do Good

I just had to take that chance." - Jensine Larsen Jensine Larsen is the Founder and CEO of World Pulse , a global media and communication network devoted to bringing women a global voice. Jensine Larsen: World Pulse is a global media enterprise fully devoted to bringing women a global voice. What was your first step?

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Fair Trade Certified: An Interview with Paul Rice of TransFair USA

Have Fun - Do Good

At the heart of Fair Trade is the notion of direct trade, kind of like a farmer's market gone global. They're aware that poverty around the world is not diminishing, they're aware that environment degradation is a looming problem. It's about three hundred dollars a year to send a kid to high school in this region of Brazil.

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Snapshot of Worldwide Electronics Recycling 2013

Tech Soup

According to the International Environmental Technology Center of the United Nations Environment Program. This is true for most of Asia where the problem is becoming critical. According to Park Young-Woo of the United Nations Environment Program, the Asia-Pacific region now produces more than half of global e-waste.

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[VIDEO] Using WhatsApp to Increase Engagement with Multicultural Communities

Bloomerang

So this is really important in areas that, so, for example, in Latin America, in certain parts of Asia, in Sub-Saharan Africa, that the internet is not as fast. Well, probably not obvious because we have a global audience, maybe someone from Japan doesn’t know where Stanford is.” It started only in Brazil.