Candid

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

The Urgent Action Fund for Latin America and the Caribbean demonstrated this in 2019 when it awarded Articulação Nacional das Pescadoras Bahia a grant of $5,743 to strengthen women’s grassroots organizing in Brazil. Alternatively, you can prepare your grants information using this template. Candid makes it easy to share your data.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

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. Why Small-Scale Farmers? Eric Munoz.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2014

We want to help lead the charge into a future where the advantages of digital information touch the lives of all people, not just of the richest and most able five percent of humanity. First, we are working to lower the barrier to the use of strong encryption to automatically protect the privacy of sensitive information.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 24, 2010

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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2010

This effort was realized thanks to more than 10 months of work by a team of 43 volunteer translators based in Brazil, France, Mexico and the US. WiserEarth offers a free and ad-free network to a vibrant member base of 37,000+ people from 231 countries, regions and territories.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

Being chatty and informal, however, is not the same the world over. Orkut , for example, is still popular in Brazil, while Renren and Qzone dominate the Chinese market (where Twitter and Facebook are banned). Do you ever write a social media update in formal language, the same as you might use in a report or presentation? Probably not.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 10, 2011

For more information, check out TechSoup Canada's recorded webinar on Google Apps. A View of the Cloud from Brazil In the first of our series of dispatches from our international partner organizations, TechSoup Brasil 's Valter Cegal reflects that Internet affordability is still a major stumbling block for Brazilian NGOs.

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BoardAssist

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

Donor receives information on WHO is being helped. Your donors want information – solid, meaningful information about what you are doing with their money and who you are helping. Hungry children in Brazil? Roger said the best way to lose a valuable donor is to give them stuff, which they don’t want and don’t appreciate.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 17, 2011

For more information, check out TechSoup Canada's recorded webinar on Google Apps. A View of the Cloud from Brazil In the first of our series of dispatches from our international partner organizations, TechSoup Brasil 's Valter Cegal reflects that Internet affordability is still a major stumbling block for Brazilian NGOs.

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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. Gen Z Uses Digital Tools for Social Good, Not Social Currency. Gen Z have (social) entrepreneurial spirit in their DNA.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 8, 2004

I just returned from Brazil yesterday: an exciting and meaningful trip that I'll talk about more later, I hope. Gates was well informed about most of the technical issues around this meeting, which is the heads of libraries for the print disabled from around the world.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 25, 2011

For more information, check out TechSoup Canada's recorded webinar on Google Apps. A View of the Cloud from Brazil In the first of our series of dispatches from our international partner organizations, TechSoup Brasil 's Valter Cegal reflects that Internet affordability is still a major stumbling block for Brazilian NGOs.

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Tech Soup

MAY 31, 2013

The VietNet Information Technology and Communication Center ( VietNet-ICT ) is a Hanoi-based NGO working in information technology and communication. Indonesia has the world’s second highest level of biodiversity (after Brazil). Our New NGO Partners in Vietnam.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 13, 2007

One cool sounding project in Brazil is, Technology Training for Women Radio Communicators. For more information, go the Case Foundation's site. If you choose a Global Cause, you can b rowse charities by topic, or region via Global Giving , and then select the charity that you would like to support. Pretty cool, huh?

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 16, 2015

Gen Z is more interested in using digital tools for social good than social currency, partly because living in a digital information age the world’s social change issues are thrust in their faces. Gen Z Uses Digital Tools for Social Good, Not Social Currency. Gen Z have (social) entrepreneurial spirit in their DNA.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 3, 2005

The heads of major information technology companies invited me to attend multiple meetings to discuss the progress they had made as a group in bringing technology to students in Jordan and their desire to replicate that success elsewhere in the Middle East, as well as a major program in Brazil.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 14, 2009

I would characterize the atmosphere as one of informed and intelligent skepticism on the part of the Copyright Office, with many questions exploring different positions. 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).

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Global Giving

DECEMBER 30, 2021

When you also consider that France is one of the oldest countries in the world and its nonprofit sector predates its for-profit sector , you can see the breadth of available information. In Brazil, the Receita Federal holds nonprofit registrations in dense files alongside information about every taxable entity in the country.

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The Modern Nonprofit

AUGUST 17, 2021

It’s imperative to make online safety a top priority for your nonprofit to protect both your work-related information and the personal information of your supporters. So it’s important to be aware of the risks involved and take steps to keep our information protected, just as we do with our physical possessions.

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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. PR: We live in a society where everyone is suffering from information overload.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 9, 2007

We have Angus Wright , who does books about the political environment in Brazil and saving the rainforest for the world. BB: Where can people find information about self-publishing? And then, of course, we have Riane Eisler , whose new book is about the wealth of nations, speaking, and she, too, is an idealist. Then write another book.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

So the first one is crowdsourcing information, so if you’re working with communities that are very spread apart. So you can use it just to, you know, get a sense of crowdsource information from people. But this is just to get information out there. This is step three. So here are some ways that you can use WhatsApp.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 5, 2013

In India, 95 percent of obsolete electronics are recycled in the informal sector. Its well document practices of uncontrolled burning, and other informal recycling practices are a major source of groundwater pollution. Four countries in Latin America now have e-waste laws or rules: Costa Rica, Colombia, Peru, and Brazil.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

The first time we shared the post online, we were contacted by media outlets from around the world asking for more information. We received votes from all over the world including Iceland, Estonia, Israel, Germany, Poland, Chile, England, Brazil and Australia, with the most international votes coming from the United States.

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Care2

APRIL 21, 2008

It allowed them to circumvent the hassle of asking users to fill in their information. There were some complications with this, we didnt have enough ethnic avatars, so the Brazilian one was a blonde girl, as we knew there were also blonde girls in Brazil. Through Hyves, members could join the effort in just one click.

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Care2

APRIL 21, 2008

It allowed them to circumvent the hassle of asking users to fill in their information. There were some complications with this, we didnt have enough ethnic avatars, so the Brazilian one was a blonde girl, as we knew there were also blonde girls in Brazil. Through Hyves, members could join the effort in just one click.

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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. One final advantage of the digital currency is richer data and insight that could inform such economic development. Now 15 years in, BerkShares, Inc.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 8, 2006

So it's sort of about kind of exposing ourselves to that information to figure out a way to penetrate the world with new eyes. And in that book we were really interested in hearing the voices, the stories of people around the world that were addressing the root causes of hunger and poverty.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 10, 2009

The following is the email I received from Kareem Dale in its entirety (and I have his permission to distribute it): Access to information and ideas is essential for personal and professional growth and full engagement in a democratic society. But engagement can be severely limited when information is not available in accessible formats.

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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. Image 1: Information flowing out of a monitor ( Shutterstock ). There are now 2.4 billion Internet users around the world, and Internet growth continues to be brisk, especially in developing countries.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 19, 2006

I certainly get inspired by getting to touch and be a part of some of the vast wilderness left on the planet, so the job has allowed me the privilege, which not everyone has, of going to Indonesia, and going to the Amazon in Brazil, and certainly that is fuel that will fill my engine for a very long time.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

The chief negotiators of the Treaty for India (GR Raghavender), Brazil (Kenneth Nobrega), and of course Nigeria (Ruth) all participated. Kipp’s idea was that we could take this paper-based rape reporting system and build it on top of our Martus secure human rights software platform.

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