NTEN

DECEMBER 23, 2014

There''s just one week left in 2014 and we need all of the help we can get to start next year on the right (and well-funded) foot to support scholarships, membership and program accessibility, and the quality content that makes this such an amazing community. Jon offered to match donations up to $2,500 but only for a quick 48 hours.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 12, 2015

I worked remotely full-time during much of 2014 when my husband and I relocated to Brazil for nine months. During that time, our fund development team brought on a new staff member, whom I on-boarded and supervised remotely. Jessica Galeria — Associate Director of Strategic Development. Telework Tools Jessica Relies On.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2012

Growing up, my kids have posed for photos in t-shirts , emptied their piggy banks , helped me make fundraising videos , contributed clothing or other items to drives at school, and have attended lots of fund raising events.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2014

I have disruptive approaches to social innovation in mind, with an increasingly connected society where the cost of prototyping and deploying new products is extremely low, and where innovation is no longer the sole purview of well-funded for-profit corporations. We deliver philanthropic donors exciting returns on their investments (i.e.,

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

DDB Brazil sparked controversy in September with a misguided September 11-themed ad campaign for the World Wildlife Fund. For years, he's been writing a series of posts on what he calls stupid nonprofit ads. It's likely that you've heard about some of these. read more.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 19, 2015

She quickly became a national figure with regular appearances on talk shows to discuss the problems with public education in Brazil, despite threats from teachers, administrators, and even fellow students. She funded her first pilot with her allowance! Gen Z have (social) entrepreneurial spirit in their DNA. You can read more her here.

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Tech Soup

MAY 31, 2013

It also matches philanthropists with volunteer opportunities and funding recommendations. It uses a crowd-funding matching system like the famous Kiva.org system. Local NGOs choose what is most needed in their area and apply online for funding. Find a list of current project funding requests here.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 31, 2004

My best thoughts came from thinking on debt, listening to people like Clara Miller of the Nonprofit Finance Fund and Tim Freundlich of Calvert. But, the bulk of what we need funding for is product development and marketing. At the moment, I'm en route to Brazil for the Schwab Foundation Social Entrepreneur Summit.

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 16, 2015

She quickly became a national figure with regular appearances on talk shows to discuss the problems with public education in Brazil, despite threats from teachers, administrators and even fellow students. She funded her first pilot with her allowance! Gen Z have (social) entrepreneurial spirit in their DNA. You can read more her here.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 24, 2007

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. It's about three hundred dollars a year to send a kid to high school in this region of Brazil. And when we say small in the coffee world, we're talking about one or two acres.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 26, 2006

Pointed out that most of the public does not know what social entrepreneurship is, and that in the nonprofit world it is such a buzzword that all groups seeking funds are saying they are social entrepreneurs. Sounded like she needs something I've seen in Brazil, and so I hope to make the connection.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 15, 2004

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. Their major problem is (surprise) fund raising. I went to Rio de Janeiro and visited Vera Cordeiro and Rodrigo Baggio.

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Candid

APRIL 21, 2021

We had also learned that direct funding to police organizations for reform had limited impact. We created a central funding mechanism within the Ford Foundation to support projects by field offices and their grantee partners that brought together activists, researchers, and reform-minded elements of the police. Closing thoughts.

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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. Only when a merchant decides to withdraw funds from BerkShares circulation and cash out to dollars is a 1.5-percent Now 15 years in, BerkShares, Inc.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 8, 2006

In addition to co-authoring Grub with Bryant Terry, Anna also co-authored Hope's Edge with her mother Frances Moore Lappé and is a co-founder, with her mother, of the Small Planet Fund , and a founding principal of the Small Planet Institute , based in Cambridge Massachusetts.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 24, 2013

The leaders in adoption are China, India, Indonesia, Iran, Russia, Nigeria, the Philippines, Brazil, and Mexico. It's a Microsoft-funded report by Christine Egger on the history of nonprofit technology assistance providers (NTAPs) like TechSoup, 501cTech , Idealware , Network for Good , NPower , NTEN , and Tech Impact.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

We’re a former grantee and we hope that our work and Gates funding priorities coincide again in the future. This time I had three agenda items for my conversations with congressional staff: Advocating for funding for special education. Took pictures of the lunar eclipse next to the Empire State Building(!)

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