Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 3, 2005

My last Davos Diary piece for BBC News was published this week, 'Meetings of Minds'. This was fun to write, and this Davos was incredible. Here's the text of my article: My good friend from India, Joe Madiath, bumps into another man at a Davos party thrown by the Egyptians. They say hi and shake hands. Joe exclaims: "You know something?

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Global Giving

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Meanwhile, mental and family health are front of mind for many employees, surfacing a need for purpose that can often be fed by engaging in social good work. In Brazil, the Receita Federal holds nonprofit registrations in dense files alongside information about every taxable entity in the country.

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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. With that in mind, Salesforce.org hosted its first “hybrid” Community Sprint in San Francisco. A Sprint to Remember.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 24, 2007

Climate change is on people's minds. 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. So, we're mindful of that.

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The Modern Nonprofit

AUGUST 17, 2021

Keep in mind, hackers can buy security certificates, too. 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. . The post Cybersecurity: What All Nonprofits Need to Know appeared first on The Modern Nonprofit.

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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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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

And mind you, they weren't all women who wanted to be journalists. They came from the favelas of Brazil, from Alaska, from the Bronx, immigrant women from the Bronx. We so often are willing to give and give and give, and our own bodies or our own state of mind is the last thing. So, we started this program.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

So always keep that in mind. And now WhatsApp is rolling out a payment feature in Brazil. It started only in Brazil. .” and I said, “No. Well, probably not obvious because we have a global audience, maybe someone from Japan doesn’t know where Stanford is.” ” Right?

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Candid

APRIL 21, 2021

We created a central funding mechanism within the Ford Foundation to support projects by field offices and their grantee partners that brought together activists, researchers, and reform-minded elements of the police. One of the officers told his classmates how he had refused an order to wear his uniform on campus.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 8, 2006

And so it became really important in my mind for me to think about another project that would actually get me looking at and get me talking about what's happening in this country, with the awareness that what we do here as individuals, as consumers, as citizens, has this global effect. The way U.S.

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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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