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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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Bookshare International Now Serves Thirty Countries

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

These partners include the Norwegian Library of Talking Books and Braille (NLB), the Hoerbuecherei des OSBV Talking Book Library in Austria, and the Dorina Nowill Foundation in Brazil.? These ebooks can quickly be turned into Braille, large print or be read aloud by a synthetic voice synthesizer.

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Member Round Up: Brain science in fundraising, website tips, and Do Good Data 2013!

NTEN

Flickr: chotda This week''s Member Round Up draws from all corners of the sector in both region and topic, from the energy in the streets of Brazil to Facebook contests and assistive technology used by the Bridge School--see what the nptech community''s been up to! Sign up for the event or learn more here.

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Bringing Women a Global Voice: Jensine Larsen, World Pulse

Have Fun - Do Good

"I would wake up in the middle of the night and still hear their voices. I just had to take that chance." - Jensine Larsen Jensine Larsen is the Founder and CEO of World Pulse , a global media and communication network devoted to bringing women a global voice. We unite those voices to accelerate change.

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

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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. And in those communities high school is a luxury, so the local school in the local community typically goes through sixth grade. It sounds pretty cheap to you and me.

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[VIDEO] Using WhatsApp to Increase Engagement with Multicultural Communities

Bloomerang

And the last thing which is super important as how can I include the voices? And WhatsApp is a great way for this because people can send you a voice note, people can send you a picture immediately and then you can have this dialogue with people. They can send you a voice note. It started only in Brazil.

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Solutionary Women: Anna Lappé of Grub

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Anna: "Grub" is our word for food that's local, that's sustainable, and that's grown with fairness from all along the way, from the seed to the table. So "grub" became our kind of catchall term for those three things, for kind of the values of local, of sustainable, and of fairness.