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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. 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.

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

Saleforce Nonprofit

Senior Program Associate, The Rockefeller Foundation. She has worked across multiple low and middle-income countries in both policy and research capacities. Molly’s background spans nonprofits and direct service, including work with small farmers in northeastern Brazil and upstate New York. Mia Blakstad.

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Vietnam and Indonesia Join TechSoup Asia’s Growing Family

Tech Soup

The Center was established in 2007 by the Vietnam Scientific Association for Development of Talents, Human Resources. VietNet-ICT also actively participates in policy discussions to formulate laws and policies relating to information, technology, and communication towards sustainable development and equity.

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Cybersecurity: What All Nonprofits Need to Know

The Modern Nonprofit

Make cybersecurity company policy. Create an internal document that outlines policies for cybersecurity and share it with staff. He has worked in IT leadership roles at multiple nonprofits, including the Mother Child Education Foundation and the Green Thought Association in Istanbul, Turkey. Teach your staff to stay safe online.

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Snapshot of Worldwide Electronics Recycling 2013

Tech Soup

The e-Waste Association of South Africa ( eWASA ) is building a network of e-waste recyclers and refurbishers in the country. Four countries in Latin America now have e-waste laws or rules: Costa Rica, Colombia, Peru, and Brazil. There are no legal structures for electronics recycling in Africa yet.

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Solutionary Women: Anna Lappé of Grub

Have Fun - Do Good

A lot of people have a lot of various associations with the word organic, and for some people organic implies food that's for a certain kind of person, that makes a certain amount of money and lives in a certain area, and we also know that organic only tells you a little piece about your food. For instance, "organic". The way U.S.