Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2014

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. The Lavelle Foundation is supporting us to expand Bookshare in India, which will likely be our first full-scale replication of Bookshare outside the U.S.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

There are new skills and experiences. Among others, the International Youth Foundation identified these troubling global trends. In Brazil, approximately 40% of firms have difficulty finding qualified staff to fill vacancies due to low quality education. The nature of the challenges vary region-by-region, but the unfortunate.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 3, 2005

The Schwab Foundation hosted a wrap up session on Sunday with twenty of the social entrepreneurs attending the Forum. My personal experience exceeded my expectations for both my organisation and the larger causes of the social entrepreneurship movement. Instant accomplishment.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 15, 2004

The Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship tried something new this year for their annual summit. 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.

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Non Profit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

The experiment proved successful. There are now over 200 local currencies in use worldwide, according to a database maintained by the Schumacher Center, with popularity greatest in Europe and Brazil. Of course, this is an experiment, and the proof of concept remains in the execution. Now 15 years in, BerkShares, Inc.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

I wanted to go out and experience the world, so I went at nineteen years old to the Amazon in Ecuador and ended up working with indigenous women who were struggling because there had been a oil contamination (four times Exxon Valdez) on their traditional lands. I'm a complete magazine and media addict. We want to empower people to do that.

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Voice Global Saudi Arabia Journal 69

Candid

APRIL 21, 2021

And philanthropic foundations can help fix it. My own experience with police reform. Some 20 years ago, when working as vice president for peace and social justice at the Ford Foundation , I was approached by the Vera Institute of Justice about a global initiative focused on prosecuting the police.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 8, 2006

And so after that experience, of writing that book, and talking to those people around the world and coming home, I had moved back to Brooklyn, New York, and I was thinking about what I wanted to do for my next project. Anna: I met Bryant Terry, who became my co-author, actually, very fortuitously.

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