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Let’s All Pull Together: Reflections from Harambee 2023

Candid

Hairston, vice president of institutional advancement and development at Miles College, said, “[This report] will be one of those seminal documents that will allow us to get in rooms we might have been excluded from.” Panelists from Brazil, Kenya, and Jamaica discussed the importance of empowering communities in the African diaspora.

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Lessons from 2019 to maximize future disaster giving decisions

Candid

upon 12 data sources, t he report documented $30 billion in private, public, corporate, and individual disaster-related giving to address major disasters and humanitarian crises that affected millions globally in 2019. funding from foundations, bilateral and multilateral donors, the U.S.

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Stories from German Nonprofits: A Look at Stifter-Helfen.de's Case Studies

Tech Soup

Streetfootballworld supports a worldwide network of organizations in well over 50 countries.The photo above is of one of their programs in Brazil. The nonprofit received a donation of ELOoffice from Stifter-Helfen, which is document management software. It also helps them organize their taxes and enables them to file electronically.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society - Untitled Article

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Union leaders talked about applying our secure human rights software to documenting the killings of labour organisers and protecting journalists. Numerous prominent journalists were intrigued by the social entrepreneurship story and asked for help setting up more coverage of the topic.

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Nonprofit Data Could Be The Missing Piece In Your CSR Strategy

Global Giving

In Brazil, the Receita Federal holds nonprofit registrations in dense files alongside information about every taxable entity in the country. Additionally, the information on each of those organizations is stored in a 2GB file—the equivalent of a pile of 20,000 documents. Nonprofit data is mixed with for-profit data.

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Breakthrough on Global Access at WIPO in Geneva!

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Through negotiations, four competing proposals have been merged into a single document supported in June by the Latin Americans (led by Brazil), the U.S., Question: What are the two key points of the document? Question: How does the draft document define print disability? the European Union and others.

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Sprint How You Can: Salesforce.org Commons Fosters True Community Collaboration by Going Hybrid

Saleforce Nonprofit

We’ve since welcomed virtual Sprinters from 25+ countries around the globe, including Australia, Japan, Senegal, Ethiopia, and Brazil. At the Sprint, volunteers did an audit on current resources and started migrating content into new documents to streamline collaboration efforts.