Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

These partners include the Norwegian Library of Talking Books and Braille (NLB), the Hoerbuecherei des OSBV Talking Book Library in Austria, and the Dorina Nowill Foundation in Brazil.? Benetech looks forward to working with all these groups to provide the latest books, especially textbooks (primarily in English). ?These

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Candid

MAY 23, 2023

While the research revealed a disappointing reality, it also highlighted opportunities for foundations and HBCUs to work together to make a greater impact. Panelists from Brazil, Kenya, and Jamaica discussed the importance of empowering communities in the African diaspora. Panelist Dr. Steven E.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 13, 2015

Mission: To promote the right to education and to preserve the environment and cultural heritage of Brazil. Project 1948 Foundation ● project1948.ngo. Mission: To improve access and quality of education for 4 million children living in underserved communities in India. Fundação Roberto Marinho ● frm.ong. Naves de Esperanza ● nde.ong.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

funding from foundations, bilateral and multilateral donors, the U.S. Putting this best practice into action, in 2019—two years after Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico—the Amgen Foundation awarded $257,500 to the University of Puerto Rico for rebuilding efforts. . Cargill Foundation awarded several multi-year disaster grants in 2019.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

I’ve just returned from keynoting the first Social Good Brazil conference that took place in Florianapolis, sometimes referred to the “Silicon Valley” of Brasil and where the nonprofit, social good, innovation, and technology community is leading the social change movement. Un Foundation. ” Philantroteens.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 28, 2022

She is also CEO of the Salesforce Foundation. Driving A Culture of Intrapreneurship SDG Panel. Ebony Beckwith is Salesforce’s Chief Business Officer and Chief of Staff to Marc Benioff.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2012

Now a parent with my own children, I involved my kids when they younger when I was fundraising for Cambodia or Creative Commons , We have dinner table discussions on why it is important to support causes, particularly programs in Cambodia like the Sharing Foundation. Children for Children Foundation. Youth in Philanthropy.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Senior Program Associate, The Rockefeller Foundation. She leads the Diet Quality portfolio at the Rockefeller Foundation. Molly’s background spans nonprofits and direct service, including work with small farmers in northeastern Brazil and upstate New York. Molly Emmett. Senior Data Scientist, Atrium.

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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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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 9, 2013

Penguin, he points out, is a growing power in China, India and Brazil, while Random House is pervasive across Spanish-speaking Latin America. The Lex Mundi Foundation is a nonprofit affiliate of Lex Mundi, the world’s leading association of independent law firms.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 10, 2009

Its fun to look at the petition and see people signed up from Djibouti to Brazil There is a cell phone component to the campaign that has caused it to really take off in South Africa. Stephanie McAuliffe is the Director of Human Resources at the Packard Foundation. Check it out, [link]. . . .

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Tech Soup

MAY 31, 2013

We proudly welcome NGO partners Vietnet-ICT and the Lin Centre in Vietnam, as well as ASEAN Foundation , Kopernik Marketplace , and YCAB Foundation in Indonesia to the TechSoup Global family. Jakarta, Indonesia-based ASEAN Foundation was launched in 1997 by leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 3, 2012

Streetfootballworld supports a worldwide network of organizations in well over 50 countries.The photo above is of one of their programs in Brazil. They offer support and services to both foundations and donors. The Flip cameras are used to capture glimpses into the organization's day-to-day work.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 17, 2011

Prashant Pandit and Pooja Jayna of the NASSCOM Foundation (TechSoup's Indian partner organization ) discuss the hurdles that NGOs must overcome for cloud adoption to become a reality. Week 3: Security in the Cloud. A View of the Cloud from India Most NGOs in India are small and highly dependent on volunteers.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 13, 2007

Everyone's buzzing about the Case Foundation's America's Giving Challenge and the Causes Giving Challenge. One cool sounding project in Brazil is, Technology Training for Women Radio Communicators. For more information, go the Case Foundation's site. philanthropy nonprofit online giving Case Foundation Facebook nptech

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

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 evidence for this is. In Latin America, more young people. graduate without having acquired basic skills.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 31, 2006

One of the major themes of working with the Skoll Foundation is the focus on stories. That's what Jeff does with Participant Productions, and a big piece of the Foundation's efforts are around helping us tell stories. Here are 50 from the Skoll World Forum, Oxford 2006 - a photoset on Flickr.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 8, 2004

I just returned from Brazil yesterday: an exciting and meaningful trip that I'll talk about more later, I hope. The audience asked Gates a good number of questions, and he was able to answer them specifically and with detail, discussing both Microsoft corporate positions with Gates Foundation programs.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 31, 2004

At the moment, I'm en route to Brazil for the Schwab Foundation Social Entrepreneur Summit. This is a chance to meet with my international peers in the movement, thanks to the Schwab Foundation. That's pretty interesting. This was founded by Klaus Schwab, the founder of the World Economic Forum.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 25, 2011

Prashant Pandit and Pooja Jayna of the NASSCOM Foundation (TechSoup's Indian partner organization ) discuss the hurdles that NGOs must overcome for cloud adoption to become a reality. Week 3: Security in the Cloud. A View of the Cloud from India Most NGOs in India are small and highly dependent on volunteers.

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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. We all felt that this had been the best Davos event in the four years that we have been invited to be part of the Forum.

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Global Giving

DECEMBER 30, 2021

In France, eight types of foundations are registered across multiple national registries. In Brazil, the Receita Federal holds nonprofit registrations in dense files alongside information about every taxable entity in the country. Nonprofit data is mixed with for-profit data.

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The Modern Nonprofit

AUGUST 17, 2021

He has worked in IT leadership roles at multiple nonprofits, including the Mother Child Education Foundation and the Green Thought Association in Istanbul, Turkey. Ekin is a world citizen and polyglot, having lived in Turkey, Italy, Brazil, Japan and now the US—learning each native tongue in addition to multiple programming languages. .

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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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Candid

APRIL 21, 2021

And philanthropic foundations can help fix it. 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. Foundation grants on policing are not new.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

They came from the favelas of Brazil, from Alaska, from the Bronx, immigrant women from the Bronx. What's interesting about the way the organization is shifting into this place of more of a foundation, and more of that team, and sustainability, is it's giving me the space to build in my own sustainability.

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Non Profit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

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. The original launch of BerkShares presaged a broader revival of interest in local currencies following the Great Recession. Now 15 years in, BerkShares, Inc.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 8, 2006

I had just moved to Brooklyn, New York, and I knew some people who were part of this organization called The Active Element Foundation, and they had just published a book called The Future 500. Anna: I met Bryant Terry, who became my co-author, actually, very fortuitously.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Attended a networking events for social entrepreneurs, such as the one organized by the Schwab Foundation (the organizers of the World Economic Forum in Davos), where we brainstormed about different issues. Met with the UN Foundation about a major grant they are giving us to bring Bookshare to India. And much more… Washington, D.C.

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