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Remembering Franklin Thomas

Candid

I was hired to work for Ford Foundation in 1991 as a program officer in Brazil, when Frank was still President. On that same trip Frank and Susan took to Brazil, we had organized a series of events and workshops so that they could meet grantees and understand the challenging transition Brazil was undergoing from dictatorship to democracy.

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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). CanadaHelps. canadahelps.org.

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Let’s All Pull Together: Reflections from Harambee 2023

Candid

During the session, Dawn Frisby Byers (PA Humanities) stated that Black women’s stories are often pushed aside, downplayed, or just flat out ignored; and yet, she said, “we are the keepers of history, traditions, and hope.”

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What Pride Month Means To Our Team

AccelEvents

It’s important that we pay respects to the black (and queer) communities as they have been on the front lines of the equality movement throughout history, we wouldn’t be where we are today without them!! Humans come in so many different sizes, colors and interests, but at the heart of it all we’re all the same. GAY RIGHTS!!

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Vietnam and Indonesia Join TechSoup Asia’s Growing Family

Tech Soup

Indonesia has the world’s second highest level of biodiversity (after Brazil). Its explosion is considered to be the loudest sound ever heard in modern history. Indonesia contains the most volcanoes of any country in the world — 147 of them have been historically active, including Krakatoa, which erupted in 1883.

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

Have Fun - Do Good

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. It's about three hundred dollars a year to send a kid to high school in this region of Brazil. Everyone goes to the store.

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Philanthropy and policing

Candid

Colonial history, long periods of authoritarianism, endemic corruption, poor training, and lack of resources had eroded any sense that there was a constructive role for law enforcement to play in democratic societies. This history of police-related grantmaking shows that foundations have another tool to promote police reform: relationships.