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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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20 Crowdfunding Services for Nonprofits Worldwide

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Nonprofits in North America, Europe, and Australia have a multitude of online fundraising services to choose from mostly thanks to their government’s efforts to build digital records and databases of legally verified nonprofits. Doare (Brazil). CanadaHelps. canadahelps.org. Crowdrise (Canada and the United States).

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A View of the Cloud from Brazil

Tech Soup

Brazil is one of the fastest-growing economies in the world, but the cost of broadband Internet is hobbling cloud adoption in the region. We discussed cloud adoption in Brazil's NGO sector with Valter Cegal of TechSoup Brasil. Brazil is the eighth largest economy in the world. is four times higher than in Brazil.

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

Saleforce Nonprofit

Farmazonzilla: A platform for farmers, cooperatives, and traders that aggregates, connects, and recommends farming services and products to simplify finding facilities, tools, training, and transports. He is passionate about using technology as an enabler to drive change and improve last-mile service delivery. Dun-Ying Vicki Yu.

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Authorized Entities Trusted Intermediaries

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

This was first introduced (to my knowledge) in the Stakeholder's Platform discussions, which were the quickly ginned-up alternative option created in response to the original introduction at WIPO of the Treaty for the Visually Impaired ("TVI") by Brazil, Ecuador and Paraguay (and now co-sponsored by Mexico). The concept of TIs uses U.S.

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Guest Post by Stephanie McAuliffe: 15andcounting.org

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

15andCounting is a campaign to demand better access to sexual health services and education for everyone, regardless of your age, gender or where you live. 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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Fascinating Meeting at the Copyright Office

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

It’s what makes our Bookshare service legally possible. The hot topic was the proposal made by Brazil, Ecuador and Paraguay, for a global treaty (a treaty for which I was part of the expert drafting team). In Geneva, the US government did provide a statement as a result of their fact-finding work about Chafee. copyright law.

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