Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2014

The Oak Foundation just awarded us a grant to provide accessible content to people with qualifying learning differences (like dyslexia) in Brazil, India, and the United Kingdom. My number one job these days is talking to bold philanthropists who share my excitement about helping so many more people through factor of ten improvements.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 3, 2012

Streetfootballworld supports a worldwide network of organizations in well over 50 countries.The photo above is of one of their programs in Brazil. The organization offers professional development and job placement, as well as intercultural and interreligious education.

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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 have (social) entrepreneurial spirit in their DNA. She funded her first pilot with her allowance! You can read more her here.

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Care2

APRIL 5, 2011

In addition to working a variety of jobs ranging from picking organic peas to writing a book on using military networks, Justin has a passion for international development and indigenous rights from studies in Brazil and South Africa where he helped start a human rights nonprofit for Pygmies in Congo.

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 16, 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 have (social) entrepreneurial spirit in their DNA. She funded her first pilot with her allowance! You can read more her here.

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Tech Soup

MAY 31, 2013

Indonesia has the world’s second highest level of biodiversity (after Brazil). Founder and CEO Veronica Colondam was honored as the Social Entrepreneur of the Year by Ernst & Young in 2011. Its explosion is considered to be the loudest sound ever heard in modern history.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2007

About five years ago, Brazil violated American intellectual property agreements by producing an AIDS drug for a fraction of the cost of the American company who developed it. Also, the more recognition you get for your content, the more likely you are to get jobs, speaking engagements and conference invites.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

We’ve since welcomed virtual Sprinters from 25+ countries around the globe, including Australia, Japan, Senegal, Ethiopia, and Brazil. If there was a library of common use cases available for Admins to review, learn from, and model their work on, it would make their jobs much easier.

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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. When we went back to New York, Michael was suddenly out of a job and he looked for three days in New York, and then decided, "Gee, we should really live in California." And we just did. We just simply moved.

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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. And when we say small in the coffee world, we're talking about one or two acres.

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The Modern Nonprofit

AUGUST 17, 2021

People should only have access to the information they need to get their job done. 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. . Don’t forget to terminate permissions once staff leave!

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 15, 2004

Rather than being held in Geneva at the headquarters of the World Economic Forum, Pamela and her team moved the summit closer to some of the social entrepreneurs by holding the event in Brazil. They provide food, buy medicine, fix up houses, train the (typically single) mothers with job skills, encourage school attendance, etc.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

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. Our job is also made easier by how delightful these penguins are and how much character and personality they have.

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Care2

APRIL 21, 2008

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. Most of the piece broadcast to millions of Brazilians was about the outrage that we represented Brazils efforts in the worldwide fight against poverty by a spoilt blonde girl.

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Care2

APRIL 21, 2008

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. Most of the piece broadcast to millions of Brazilians was about the outrage that we represented Brazils efforts in the worldwide fight against poverty by a spoilt blonde girl.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

” But if I’m working with communities that have a more hands, you know, a job that they’re like on their feet every day, they’re not going to have the email, they’re not going to be communicating through email. And now WhatsApp is rolling out a payment feature in Brazil. It started only in Brazil.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

They came from the favelas of Brazil, from Alaska, from the Bronx, immigrant women from the Bronx. The ones we felt that with the proper training could become loud voices for their communities, and really offer solutions and a fresh perspective to the world agenda.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 19, 2006

Ilyse Hogue: Well I came to this work and I came to this job, very differently, maybe I could start from the beginning. Britt Bravo: If someone wanted to give up their corporate job and do the kind of work that you do, what should they do? Britt Bravo: How did you come to this work?

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