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

Saleforce Nonprofit

What are ways of translating early warning dashboards captured at the global level into local action? Molly’s background spans nonprofits and direct service, including work with small farmers in northeastern Brazil and upstate New York. What are ways of providing specific and real-time guidance for farmers? Eric Munoz.

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Vietnam and Indonesia Join TechSoup Asia’s Growing Family

Tech Soup

They are all part of TechSoup Asia , which serves charities in the Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand — and now Vietnam and Indonesia. TechSoup Asia Asia is a nonprofit collaborative venture between TechSoup Global and its local nonprofit organization partners, Connecting Up Australia and the Hong Kong Council of Social Service.

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A NetSquared Happy Holidays

Tech Soup

Our events are powered by a global network of volunteers dedicated to building strong, self-sufficient, local communities of nonprofit technology practitioners. So give your local organizer a hug next time you see them! Asia and Pacific Rim. Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso: Monthly Meeting of Local Members.

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

Have Fun - Do Good

PR: I was in Brazil a few months ago, and in this village in Brazil there are about eighty or ninety families that are all very small coffee growers. And in those communities high school is a luxury, so the local school in the local community typically goes through sixth grade. It sounds pretty cheap to you and me.

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Bringing Women a Global Voice: Jensine Larsen, World Pulse

Have Fun - Do Good

My friends in Burma and in the Amazon were really risking their lives in the face of the military troops, in both cases in the Amazon and in Southeast Asia, so I felt like this is something that I'm not going to die doing, and I just started. They came from the favelas of Brazil, from Alaska, from the Bronx, immigrant women from the Bronx.

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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. So in this part, what I said before, sharing the local voices of the communities you work with is extremely important because WhatsApp is a way. It started only in Brazil.

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Philanthropy and policing

Candid

When we began talking with our field offices in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, it became apparent that, as difficult as it was to prosecute police in the U.S., I remember visiting a university in Brazil where a police reform course was being taught with a classroom of students and police officers.