Tech Soup

JULY 31, 2009

TechSoup Brazil , a collaborative effort of Associação Telecentro de Informação e Negócios (ATN) and TechSoup Global, was launched has just officially launched after many months of planning. Major programs: Telecentre.org Brazilian National Academy: e-learning courses on managing telecentres. Welcome, Brazil! but not quite.

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ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 1, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic has not been kind to the nonprofit sector and many organizations have had to undergo massive staffing cuts, eliminate programs, and struggle through maintaining minimal viable operations to avoid closing permanently. Illustration by Yuxin Qin.

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TechImpact

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

14 students from the ITWorks program in the Philadelphia area visited SAP America last week for Career Day this year. The ITWorks program , created by Tech Impact, is a program open to vulnerable young adults that helps them develop strong leadership and community skills while becoming certified in IT.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 28, 2022

Here are some of the highlights of our programming at Davos this year. Standing Up for Mental Health: Fireside Chat with Jack Harries. Jack Harries understands the power of storytelling. Trust Roundtable.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Senior Program Manager, Oxfam America. Deputy Director Hub; Program Development and Quality Assurance, Action Against Hunger. She has strong engagement and extensive knowledge of working with governments, implementing multi-sector evidence-based programming and nutrition information management. Eric Munoz. Imelda Awino.

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NTEN

DECEMBER 23, 2014

There''s just one week left in 2014 and we need all of the help we can get to start next year on the right (and well-funded) foot to support scholarships, membership and program accessibility, and the quality content that makes this such an amazing community.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

The Urgent Action Fund for Latin America and the Caribbean demonstrated this in 2019 when it awarded Articulação Nacional das Pescadoras Bahia a grant of $5,743 to strengthen women’s grassroots organizing in Brazil. The Disability Rights Advocacy Fund did just that when it awarded $20,000 to Palau-based Omekesang.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

I’ve just returned from keynoting the first Social Good Brazil conference that took place in Florianapolis, sometimes referred to the “Silicon Valley” of Brasil and where the nonprofit, social good, innovation, and technology community is leading the social change movement. Now that’s a powerful idea.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 9, 2013

Random House Mondadori and Expanding the Spanish-language Bookshare Program Benetech’s strong relationships with numerous partners across sectors are fundamental to our continued success. Penguin, he points out, is a growing power in China, India and Brazil, while Random House is pervasive across Spanish-speaking Latin America.

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NTEN

DECEMBER 31, 2014

Last year, NTEN Community Champions helped to raise over $36,000 to support the NTEN Community Challenge , which enhanced NTEN''s program accessibility, including sending over 50 people to the 2014 Nonprofit Technology Conference (14NTC) and the 2014 Leading Change Summit (14LCS) with scholarships.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2012

Now a parent with my own children, I involved my kids when they younger when I was fundraising for Cambodia or Creative Commons , We have dinner table discussions on why it is important to support causes, particularly programs in Cambodia like the Sharing Foundation.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 18, 2009

based EPEAT , the Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool, which is a non-commercial program that rates how environmentally friendly new IT equipment is according to three tiers of environmental performance which they mark with bronze, silver, and gold. A bit over a year ago, we talked about U.S.-based read more.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

Automatic translation programs are prone to errors and contextual mistakes, which can result in putting off your target market rather than engaging them. Orkut , for example, is still popular in Brazil, while Renren and Qzone dominate the Chinese market (where Twitter and Facebook are banned). Translation isn’t an easy step.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2014

How can our existing successful programs reach ten times more people? 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. 10X: ten times the impact. That’s what’s been on my mind lately.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 19, 2015

I’ll be talking about Gen Z donors and why nonprofits need to engage them in their fundraising and programs. 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.

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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. With this new version of the Buhl software package, the team can also scan financial statements and manage them within the program. in partnership with TechSoup Global.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

In Brazil, approximately 40% of firms have difficulty finding qualified staff to fill vacancies due to low quality education. youth and we are announcing a number of new Citizenship programs. Microsoft programs that share the common objective of supporting and. In Latin America, more young people. We are committing the.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

You'll find links to an array of manuals for often used open source programs like Audacity (there was even a link to a print version you can purchase via LuLu if you like paper and I do). I also found a manual for Kino , a video editing program that runs on Linux. The developer livers in Brazil.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 8, 2004

I just returned from Brazil yesterday: an exciting and meaningful trip that I'll talk about more later, I hope. The audience asked Gates a good number of questions, and he was able to answer them specifically and with detail, discussing both Microsoft corporate positions with Gates Foundation programs.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 17, 2006

Global Girlfriend is an online fair trade store that sells handmade gifts made by women's non-profit programs and cooperatives. The creators of Global Girlfriend's merchandise come from all over the world: Brazil, Ethiopia, India, Indonesia, Nepal, Nicaragua, South Africa, Thailand, the United States and Vietnam.

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Care2

APRIL 5, 2011

Prior to this position, Adam worked as part of HRC's sustaining gifts program. In this role, Adam is responsible for the collection, management, and strategic analysis of data to support HRC's programmatic and fundraising goals. Adam holds a BA in Economics from Southern Illinois University and lives in Washington, DC.

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 16, 2015

Beth is an internationally recognized trainer who has developed and implemented effective sector capacity building programs that help organizations integrate social media, network building and relationship marketing best practices. Gen Z have (social) entrepreneurial spirit in their DNA.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 31, 2004

I recently came back from the Social Enterprise Alliance Stoweflake Funder's program. We have frequently thought about taking on debt to help finance our programs, but have never made the leap. At the moment, I'm en route to Brazil for the Schwab Foundation Social Entrepreneur Summit. That's pretty interesting.

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Tech Soup

MAY 31, 2013

The program helps Vietnamese nonprofits to build staff capacity, apply for grants, and recruit skilled volunteers. The organization promotes ASEAN awareness through language training, mass media, and youth exchange activities (such as volunteer programs and youth camps).

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 3, 2005

The heads of major information technology companies invited me to attend multiple meetings to discuss the progress they had made as a group in bringing technology to students in Jordan and their desire to replicate that success elsewhere in the Middle East, as well as a major program in Brazil.

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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. We had event coordinators, a Sprint Buddy program to match new and experienced sprinters, and set clear expectations before our community joined.

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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

Always keep your phone, tablet, computers, programs, and apps completely up-to-date with current software. 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. . Keep your software and devices updated.

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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. We're going to use recycled paper instead of a big, glossy program. And then, of course, we have Riane Eisler , whose new book is about the wealth of nations, speaking, and she, too, is an idealist.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

I reached out and connected with Felicity Kibble, the aquarium’s Visitor Experience Marketing Adviser, to learn more about their social program that has me and loads of people around the world enthralled. Helen: Tell me about the Penguin of the Month Program. Helen: When you launched the program, what was the goal?

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Tech Soup

MARCH 5, 2013

According to the International Environmental Technology Center of the United Nations Environment Program. According to Park Young-Woo of the United Nations Environment Program, the Asia-Pacific region now produces more than half of global e-waste. World Snapshot. Most countries of the world (including the U.S.) Latin America.

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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. The first program I visited was Saude Crianca Renascer , run by Dr. Vera Cordeiro. Their major problem is (surprise) fund raising.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

Can you talk about, since you mentioned the online journals, the difference between the print magazine and the online magazine and then PulseWire so folks know what are these different entities and programs that you have? So, we started this program. Yes, and they're very synergistic. Last year we piloted it, in 2009.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

And with WhatsApp for business, you can like program automated messages so when you’re not online, you can program it to send a message and then get back to people when they come online or get them to, you know, whatever they need to do. you can even program all this. . It started only in Brazil. You will like.

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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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Tech Soup

JUNE 24, 2013

The leaders in adoption are China, India, Indonesia, Iran, Russia, Nigeria, the Philippines, Brazil, and Mexico. Eligibility for the program is a bit complex. There are now 2.4 billion Internet users around the world, and Internet growth continues to be brisk, especially in developing countries.

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