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12 Early Adopters of the.NGO and.ONG Domains

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Mission: To promote the right to education and to preserve the environment and cultural heritage of Brazil. Mission: To provide free surgeries to the world’s neediest nations on the world’s largest civilian hospital ship. Fundação Roberto Marinho ● frm.ong. Grassroots Pakistan ● grassrootspakistan.ngo. United States.

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What Pride Month Means To Our Team

AccelEvents

” When we’re answering those questions, Accelevents has consistently provided a welcoming environment – free of judgement – where anyone, from anywhere, can bring their ideas about themselves and the world and be celebrated for the value their perspective brings.

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

Saleforce Nonprofit

Since 2008 Emma has been engaged in a wide range of climate-resilience building consortia projects, principally in East and West Africa, developing weather and climate information and services to support decision-making at local, national, regional, and international levels. Eric Munoz. Senior Program Manager, Oxfam America.

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10X: CEO’s Update: Spring 2014

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The Oak Foundation just awarded us a grant to provide accessible content to people with qualifying learning differences (like dyslexia) in Brazil, India, and the United Kingdom. Canadians with disabilities will now have access to Bookshare through their public libraries and the Canadian National Institute of the Blind.

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Vietnam and Indonesia Join TechSoup Asia’s Growing Family

Tech Soup

In its effort to help local people to meet local needs, LIN aims to advance a more efficient and responsive philanthropic environment and strengthen the communities. It is proper etiquette in Vietnam to politely ask your age, nationality, and marital status on the first meeting. There are 54 ethnic groups in Vietnam.

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Writing for Change Conference: An Interview with Elizabeth Pomada

Have Fun - Do Good

And then, of course, we have Riane Eisler , whose new book is about the wealth of nations, speaking, and she, too, is an idealist. We also have Ernest Callenbach , who wrote the first book on the environment, Ecotopia. The environment? EP: OK, well, first of all they have to figure out how they want to change the world.

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Fair Trade Certified: An Interview with Paul Rice of TransFair USA

Have Fun - Do Good

They're aware that poverty around the world is not diminishing, they're aware that environment degradation is a looming problem. PR: I was in Brazil a few months ago, and in this village in Brazil there are about eighty or ninety families that are all very small coffee growers. Climate change is on people's minds.