article thumbnail

20 Crowdfunding Services for Nonprofits Worldwide

Nonprofit Tech for Good

To fill in the gap, social good entrepreneurs worldwide have built upon the momentum of crowdfunding and extended crowdfunding services to nonprofits, NGOs, and charities in regions where online fundraising has been challenging up to this point in the Internet’s short history. Doare (Brazil). GiveaLittle (New Zealand).

article thumbnail

Vietnam and Indonesia Join TechSoup Asia’s Growing Family

Tech Soup

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. Indonesia has the world’s second highest level of biodiversity (after Brazil). People heard it 3,000 miles away.

professionals

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Fair Trade Certified: An Interview with Paul Rice of TransFair USA

Have Fun - Do Good

At the heart of Fair Trade is the notion of direct trade, kind of like a farmer's market gone global. People want to be on the right side of history. 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.

article thumbnail

Philanthropy and policing

Candid

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. This history of police-related grantmaking shows that foundations have another tool to promote police reform: relationships.

article thumbnail

Taking Local Currency Digital: A New Experiment Emerges

Non Profit Quarterly

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. A handful of America’s largest financial corporations are also leading investors in global fossil fuel extraction. Now 15 years in, BerkShares, Inc.

Local 101
article thumbnail

Nonprofit Technology News for June 2013

Tech Soup

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.

News 47