Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 10, 2009

She got me started thinking along this line at a networks meeting where she was encouraging the branding of issues, instead of specific organizations. 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.

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Djibouti South Africa Brazil Africa 50

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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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. Gates was well informed about most of the technical issues around this meeting, which is the heads of libraries for the print disabled from around the world. . - Sound generally, but not the whole issue.

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Brazil Library Sound Global 100

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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Paraguay Nepal Brazil Award 100

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 31, 2004

At this event, I had the chance to think more deeply on it and realized that the issues are very similar to those I have had a high tech company CFO (a role I've played on and off for over ten years). At the moment, I'm en route to Brazil for the Schwab Foundation Social Entrepreneur Summit. That's pretty interesting.

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Brazil Tech International Foundation 100

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. Issues of poverty, socially responsible investing, human rights, education and health were an integral part of the conversation.

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India Brazil Jordan Literacy 100

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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Brazil NGO Children Problem 100

Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

I felt an emptiness inside, as a woman, that I wasn't hearing from the teachers that I wanted to about world issues. They came from the favelas of Brazil, from Alaska, from the Bronx, immigrant women from the Bronx. Well, first, it started for me at a young age as a young woman. I'm a complete magazine and media addict.

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Voice Global Saudi Arabia Journal 69

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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Philanthropy Brazil Law History 75

Non Profit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

When the BerkShares currency launched in 2006, it involved something of a gamble: that a moribund tradition of local currency issue could still work to bolster local economic activity in the 21 st century. The first wave of local currency issue in the US came in the 1930s, in the wake of the Great Depression.

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Local Digital Experiment Alternative 104

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. The Marrakesh Treaty.

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