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A View of the Cloud from Brazil

Tech Soup

Brazil is one of the fastest-growing economies in the world, but the cost of broadband Internet is hobbling cloud adoption in the region. We discussed cloud adoption in Brazil's NGO sector with Valter Cegal of TechSoup Brasil. ATN is an NGO association of over 2,000 telecenters. is four times higher than in Brazil.

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Bookshare without Borders: #2/3

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

In this second installment of the three-part blog series (the first one is here ) on Bookshare International, I’m excited to share some of the ways in which our Bookshare library is part of the latest trends in the digital publishing world and is thus going deeper and serving many more people.

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Lessons from 2019 to maximize future disaster giving decisions

Candid

The Urgent Action Fund for Latin America and the Caribbean demonstrated this in 2019 when it awarded Articulação Nacional das Pescadoras Bahia a grant of $5,743 to strengthen women’s grassroots organizing in Brazil. Support local nonprofits and knowledge in the U.S. and internationally.

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Join Me Live From Brasil to Celebrate #GivingTuesday #DiadeDoar on 12/2 at 11:00 AM PST

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

On the overall rating Brazil is actually the 90th most generous country of the world.” Organizations as Greenpeace, SOS Global Villages, Care, Rotary International, The Red Cross, The Avon Institute as well many other smaller, local nonprofits.

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

Saleforce Nonprofit

Senior Humanitarian Climate Crisis Advisor, Save the Children International. Working in Save the Children International’s Anticipatory Action team, Emma’s role is focused on strengthening capacities and approaches to prevent or minimize the impacts of extreme weather events on children. Emma Visman. Eric Munoz. Mia Blakstad.

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10X: CEO’s Update: Spring 2014

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

This represents a 10x growth over the past 6 years, and a 20% and 25% growth, respectively, over less than a year: growth rates associated more with successful commercial services, and unheard of in our field.

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Webinar: Converting Prospects to Multichannel Gold

Care2

Frustrated at internal barriers to multichannel integration? Adam Scruggs, Associate Director of Data Acquisition and Analysis, Human Rights Campaign: Adam Scruggs is the Associate Director of Data Acquisition and Analysis at the Human Rights Campaign, where he has worked for four years. If so, this webinar is for you.