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TechSoup Local Impact Map Profile: Nonprofits Back to School — In Brazil

Tech Soup

Our theme this month is educational nonprofits like The Luciano Bareto Júnior Institute in Brazil. Back to School in Brazil. They’re now to the point where each student has access to an individual computer workstation during classes. Education Is a Major Nonprofit Activity. Even in the U.S.,

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TechSoup Local Impact Map Profile: Nonprofits Back to School — In Brazil

Tech Soup

Our theme this month is educational nonprofits like The Luciano Bareto Júnior Institute in Brazil. Back to School in Brazil. They’re now to the point where each student has access to an individual computer workstation during classes. Education Is a Major Nonprofit Activity. Even in the U.S.,

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ITWorks & SAP America: Connecting Young Adults To Bright Futures

TechImpact

14 students from the ITWorks program in the Philadelphia area visited SAP America last week for Career Day this year. Career Day is just one of the opportunities students have to immerse themselves in the technology landscape. Career Day is just one of the opportunities students have to immerse themselves in the technology landscape.

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10X: CEO’s Update: Spring 2014

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

I have disruptive approaches to social innovation in mind, with an increasingly connected society where the cost of prototyping and deploying new products is extremely low, and where innovation is no longer the sole purview of well-funded for-profit corporations. We deliver philanthropic donors exciting returns on their investments (i.e.,

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Future of Social: Gen Z

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

And there is Jack Andraka , a high school student who got obsessed with finding a cure for cancer and created a test that can detect pancreatic cancer. Gen Z Uses Digital Tools for Social Good, Not Social Currency. Gen Z have (social) entrepreneurial spirit in their DNA.

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The Future of Social: Gen Z

NonProfit Hub

And there is Jack Andraka , a high school student who got obsessed with finding a cure for cancer and created a test that can detect pancreatic cancer. Isadora Faber, a 14-year-old Brazilian student, launched an online Classroom Diary on Facebook to discuss problems in her school, such as broken desks and bathrooms without toilet seats.

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

Have Fun - Do Good

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.