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

Saleforce Nonprofit

We generated ideas for features like crop-specific guidance, multi-language accessibility, real-time market pricing data, and access to peer-to-peer training and resources. Molly’s background spans nonprofits and direct service, including work with small farmers in northeastern Brazil and upstate New York.

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10X: CEO’s Update: Spring 2014

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

This is one reason why our Human Rights Field Team is supporting LGBTI rights groups from the Caribbean to the African regions with targeted Martus and capacity building trainings. This year, it’s been especially worrisome to see the rising tide of violence against the lesbian and gay communities around the world.

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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. for many, the jobs crisis has led to a growing number of NEET youth – those Not engaged in education, employment or training – and they can quickly become marginalized, creating even more costs for society.

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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. The organization promotes ASEAN awareness through language training, mass media, and youth exchange activities (such as volunteer programs and youth camps).

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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.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society - Untitled Article

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Rather than being held in Geneva at the headquarters of the World Economic Forum, Pamela and her team moved the summit closer to some of the social entrepreneurs by holding the event in Brazil. They provide food, buy medicine, fix up houses, train the (typically single) mothers with job skills, encourage school attendance, etc.

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Bringing Women a Global Voice: Jensine Larsen, World Pulse

Have Fun - Do Good

There's the magazine, there's PulseWire, and the third component that has been very powerful is the online training, the women's Web 2.0 citizen journalism training that we developed because the women were asking for it. They came from the favelas of Brazil, from Alaska, from the Bronx, immigrant women from the Bronx.

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