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10X: CEO’s Update: Spring 2014

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

With Bookshare, our student members can access and read the books they need—in the classroom, at home, and on the go—and have a fair opportunity to succeed at school just like their peers without disabilities. And we do this at a per-book cost less than one-tenth of the traditional approaches!

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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.

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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. Among others, the International Youth Foundation identified these troubling global trends. In Latin America, more young people. their future and ours.

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The Future of Social: Gen Z

NonProfit Hub

Isadora Faber, a 14-year-old Brazilian student, launched an online Classroom Diary on Facebook to discuss problems in her school, such as broken desks and bathrooms without toilet seats.

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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.