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Bookshare without Borders: #2/3

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Penguin, he points out, is a growing power in China, India and Brazil, while Random House is pervasive across Spanish-speaking Latin America. In a recent blog post , Ed explains why growth markets are key to this proposed merger of two of the publishing world’s biggest players.

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Upcoming Nonprofits Live: Storytelling and Collaborative Video

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employers in Brazil and the US. In Brazil, David wrote and directed. His writings and photographs have been published in print and online with the BBC , Guardian , Adbusters , the Sarai Reader , Glimpse Magazine , Next American City , Focus on the Global South , Alternet , and Grist. His forthcoming. newscasts for CurrentTV.

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10X: CEO’s Update: Spring 2014

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Photo credit: Katy Steinmetz, TIME Magazine. 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. Ugandan LGBTI activist and Martus user Richard Lusimbo at the 2014 RightsCon human rights conference.

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Participation in Storytelling: Collaborative Video on Nonprofits Live

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His forthcoming book, Você Vai me Servir ("You Will Serve Me," Annablume Publishers, São Paulo, 2012) is a comparative ethnographic study of relationships between domestic workers and their employers in Brazil and the US. In Brazil, David wrote and directed newscasts for CurrentTV.

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How to Raise Money for Your Favorite Cause with America's Giving Challenge and the Causes Giving Challenge

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Go to the America's Giving Challenge page in Parade Magazine. One cool sounding project in Brazil is, Technology Training for Women Radio Communicators. Want to help out your favorite cause? Here's how: How to Join America's Giving Challenge (December 13, 2007-January 31, 2008) 1. Click on "Get Started." or Abroad.

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Bringing Women a Global Voice: Jensine Larsen, World Pulse

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I'm a complete magazine and media addict. What really pushed me over the edge was, day after day waking up and not seeing this magazine on the newsstands, not hearing it when I turned on the radio, and also the voices of the women that I had met was my biggest instigator. Our first magazine was published in 2004.

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

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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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