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Spotlighting the Benefits of the Stakeholder Economy at Davos 2022

Saleforce Nonprofit

Research has shown that if 100% of students in developed countries received climate education, the emissions impact would be greater than that of wind and solar combined. Moderated by Salesforce’s chief marketing officer Sarah Franklin, this panel featured youth climate activists Vanessa Nakate and Elizabeth Wathuti, as well as EY U.K.

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10X: CEO’s Update: Spring 2014

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The Global Literacy team, led by VP & General Manager Betsy Beaumon, just celebrated our latest major milestones: serving 300,000 members, the majority of whom are American students with disabilities, and offering 250,000 accessible books on the virtual shelves of our library.

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

Saleforce Nonprofit

An inclusive environment that cultivates engagement from a global community. We’ve since welcomed virtual Sprinters from 25+ countries around the globe, including Australia, Japan, Senegal, Ethiopia, and Brazil. What do you get when you combine around the table with virtual collaboration? Scholarship Tracking.

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Writing for Change Conference: An Interview with Elizabeth Pomada

Have Fun - Do Good

And Phil Zimbardo is going to speak about his book, The Lucifer Effect , which showed how he had an experiment where he put a few students of his from Stanford in prison and a few people, in the same class, in as prison guards, and then it showed how immediately they turned bad because of how power can corrupt people. The environment?

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

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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.

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Mr. Jim Goes to Washington (and New York, and Nairobi, and Seoul, and Kampala, and Boston…)

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

I started doing this back in 2007 , when we won our first big federal contract for Bookshare, to take it from 3,000 students back then to more than 350,000 students now. Even in the tough fiscal environment in Washington, we get good hearings from both Republicans and Democrats. Student privacy. The Marrakesh Treaty.

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