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10X: CEO’s Update: Spring 2014

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

For LGBTI individuals—like courageous Ugandan activist Richard Lusimbo, who was outed on the front page of a Ugandan tabloid—the availability of Martus and our in-field support is life changing. I invite you to join us as we open new frontiers at the intersection of technology and social change.

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Future of Social: Gen Z

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Isadora Faber, 14-year-old Brazilian student who launched an online Classroom Diary on Facebook to discuss problems in her school, such as broken desks and bathrooms without toilet seats. This generation is doing more than clicking on line, they making change in the world! They are not content to just sit and click.

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Microsoft YouthSpark: A New Chapter in Citizenship at Microsoft

Tech Soup

In Brazil, approximately 40% of firms have difficulty finding qualified staff to fill vacancies due to low quality education. the Classroom, DreamSpark, Imagine Cup, and BizSpark. Microsoft YouthSpark, we will help empower youth to change their. How can you be the spark of change? In Latin America, more young people.

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The Future of Social: Gen Z

NonProfit Hub

Gen Z is more interested in using digital tools for social good than social currency, partly because living in a digital information age the world’s social change issues are thrust in their faces. This generation is doing more than clicking online, they’re making change in the world! They are not content to just sit and click.

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Philanthropy and policing

Candid

I remember visiting a university in Brazil where a police reform course was being taught with a classroom of students and police officers. He did so by summoning the courage to tell his captain that students’ experience with police in Brazil had been one of repression and that they would run from anyone in uniform.