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Lessons from 2019 to maximize future disaster giving decisions

Candid

Nonprofits need support to engage in activities that influence disaster-related policies. 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. and internationally.

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

Saleforce Nonprofit

Senior Humanitarian Climate Crisis Advisor, Save the Children International. Working in Save the Children International’s Anticipatory Action team, Emma’s role is focused on strengthening capacities and approaches to prevent or minimize the impacts of extreme weather events on children. Emma Visman. Eric Munoz. Molly Emmett.

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Fascinating Meeting at the Copyright Office

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

We discussed Chafee, especially in the context of the Amazon text-to-speech brouhaha, and the proposed international treaty that was tabled at the WIPO SCCR meeting in Geneva last month. Of course, if there is an international treaty on the topic and the U.S. These seems to be an important part of international copyright law.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

I just returned from Brazil yesterday: an exciting and meaningful trip that I'll talk about more later, I hope. I asked Gates a question around international intellectual property questions, which is one of the key issues of the meeting.

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Cybersecurity: What All Nonprofits Need to Know

The Modern Nonprofit

Make cybersecurity company policy. Create an internal document that outlines policies for cybersecurity and share it with staff. Ekin is a world citizen and polyglot, having lived in Turkey, Italy, Brazil, Japan and now the US—learning each native tongue in addition to multiple programming languages. .

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Snapshot of Worldwide Electronics Recycling 2013

Tech Soup

According to the International Environmental Technology Center of the United Nations Environment Program. Four countries in Latin America now have e-waste laws or rules: Costa Rica, Colombia, Peru, and Brazil. Just thought I'd take a look at the state of electronics recycling around the world to see how we're doing.

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

Care2

GCAP , an international campaign fighting to raise awareness about poverty was struggling with this issue. To impact the World Banks anti-poverty policies, GCAP needed to show tangible grassroots support, difficult considering that its millions of members were spread out over 100 countries. How did you promote it?

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