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Giving Trends in Brazil: How Crowdfunding & Social Entrepreneurs Are Transforming the Nonprofit Sector

Nonprofit Tech for Good

According to the Institute of Applied Economic Research , there are 820,000 existing NGOs, also know as ONGs (organizaciónes no gubernamentales), in Brazil. What would you like the world to know about NGOs and fundraising in Brazil? But small causes here in Brazil make a very big difference in social impact.

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

Saleforce Nonprofit

By bringing together the expertise of leaders from across sectors with the power of Salesforce technology and pro bono talent, this Impact Lab will aim to generate shareable insights and create a solution that supports the work of small-scale farmers in enabling them to make proactive, informed decisions. What Ideas Were Generated?

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Bookshare without Borders: #2/3

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

These relationships generate countless ideas for using technology for social good. Together with our partners in the nonprofit, technology, government, academic and publishing sectors, we participate in new cultural and technological movements, deriving new knowledge that we apply for social gain.

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Fascinating Meeting at the Copyright Office

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

That worries me, because I don’t think I’ve heard about a groundswell of demand for changing Chafee in the United States, other than when one textbook publisher's representatives get up in public and sound like banking executives from five years ago (if the government would just stop regulating us, we'd take care of everything).

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Sarah Davies: Intellectual Property Legislation with Human Rights

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I've found that my generation has a habit of teaching ourselves new technologies, and I am no exception. About five years ago, Brazil violated American intellectual property agreements by producing an AIDS drug for a fraction of the cost of the American company who developed it. Are you trained as lawyer? I'm mostly a geek.

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Nonprofit Data Could Be The Missing Piece In Your CSR Strategy

Global Giving

In Brazil, the Receita Federal holds nonprofit registrations in dense files alongside information about every taxable entity in the country. GlobalGiving Atlas includes everything from government ID numbers, mission statements, and organization financials. Featured Photo: Preventing Inter-Generational Prostitution by Apne Aap USA.

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EENs Avatars Campaign Brings Online Marketing to Life - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

The result shows a possible future direction of a new kind of protest for the new generation. First, in the Netherlands we used them as a tool to influence the Dutch government and get the media on board. This generated 400,000 emails, a ridiculous number, directly from friends to a friend, for which we did not pay a single penny.

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