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MAY 4, 2021

The finalists of Fast Company ’s 2021 World Changing Ideas Awards were announced today, honoring the businesses, policies, projects, and concepts that are actively engaged and deeply committed to pursuing innovation when it comes to solving health and climate crises, social injustice, or economic inequality.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 28, 2022

Zahra Bahrololoumi co-hosted a roundtable lunch with Gail Gallie, CEO of Project Everyone , to discuss the role of CEOs in the wake of a crisis of trust. Trust Roundtable.

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AFP Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

Using Mobile Phones to Map the Slums of Brazil | PBS: "A new project by Rede Jovem, a Brazilian non-profit that loosely translates to 'Youth Net,' seeks to change that. MediaShift Idea Lab. o, Cidade de Deus, Morro do Pava?

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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. Teens As Free Agents. ” Philantroteens.

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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.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

After working on a non-profit project supporting the fight to end global hunger, she earned her Masters in Gastronomy, uniting her love of food and culture with a passion for understanding the impacts of hunger and food insecurity on displaced people such as immigrants and refugees. Nicolas Umuhizi.

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JUNE 24, 2013

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!

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 31, 2012

David Evan Harris - Global Lives David Evan Harris is Founder and Executive Director of the Global Lives Project and Research Director at the Institute for the Future. employers in Brazil and the US. In Brazil, David wrote and directed. Windy currently serves on the Advisory Board for Bay Area Women in Film and Media (BAWIFM).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2012

But it is more than the technology, it is also their passion to do good in the world. I recently keynoted the Social Good Brazil Conference in November. The media has dubbed this generation “ Qwerty Monsters ”; they send hundreds of text messages a day and don’t even like to use their phone for calls.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2014

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. These Labs supporters make it possible for us to explore many new Labs project ideas, looking for the next great social enterprise.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 28, 2007

Of course, I caught the 2 am train and ended up in the lounge of the Schatzalp talking about the OLPC (One Laptop per Child) project and getting a CD of Amazonian music from my Brazilian buddies (the big column in Brazil's major Sao Paolo paper was entitled (Jungle Boys go to Davos!).

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 20, 2012

David Evan Harris is Founder and Executive Director of the Global Lives Project and Research Director at the Institute for the Future. In Brazil, David wrote and directed newscasts for CurrentTV. Windy currently serves on the Advisory Board for Bay Area Women in Film and Media (BAWIFM). David Evan Harris - Global Lives.

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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. Stifter-helfen.de – IT for Nonprofits is the IT donation project of Stiftungszentrum.de. In September 2012, the project was expanded to serve Austria as well.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 19, 2015

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. Gen Z have (social) entrepreneurial spirit in their DNA. She funded her first pilot with her allowance! You can read more her here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

David Saski from Global Voices and who is running the Rising Voices project will also be at the Cambodia Bloggers Summit in Phnom Penh next week. At havemoneywillvlog.com, we are considering giving support to this software project to provide free video editing software to videobloggers in other countries. and speak spanish?)

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 8, 2015

Honolulu, Hawaii: Bi-monthly Code for Hawaii Project Night. Porto Alegre, Brazil: Evento De Design De Aplicativos Para Celular. Boston, Massachusetts: DataBasic Intro Workshop — Learn 3 New Tools for Finding Stories in Data. Wednesday, December 9, 2015. Washington, DC: Digital Trends — Look Back at 2015 and Ahead at 2016.

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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. Still, speech reco is not going to be at a level where people use it commonly instead of typing (he projected that more like 6 years out) - Thinks that small devices are going to be very exciting for book content.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 17, 2006

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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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 13, 2007

For example, there are 10 projects to choose from under the topic of "Technology." One cool sounding project in Brazil is, Technology Training for Women Radio Communicators. Once you choose a project, you will build a Global Giving Badge.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 31, 2006

He tracked me down to explain what we were doing in our new environmental project! Rodrigo Baggio (of CDI in Brazil) and I are trying to find more time together since we're both in the IT space: we know there's a joint project here somewhere. The best part has been talking to the other Skoll entrepreneurs.

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 16, 2015

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. Gen Z have (social) entrepreneurial spirit in their DNA. She funded her first pilot with her allowance! You can read more her here.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 31, 2004

If we had a project that required significant capital assets, such as tooling or a big investment on server infrastructure, we'd have a good case for debt. 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

Find a list of current project funding requests here. Indonesia has the world’s second highest level of biodiversity (after Brazil). After vetting, Kopernik posts the funding request on their website so that individuals can choose what you want to fund. The technology is shipped directly to the local NGO.

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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. Everyone joined for a welcome session in the morning, and a status update on their projects at the end of the day. Both days started and ended with us all in “one room.” Sprinting to the Future.

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Global Giving

DECEMBER 30, 2021

In Brazil, the Receita Federal holds nonprofit registrations in dense files alongside information about every taxable entity in the country. GlobalGiving Atlas is an effort to simplify all these projects that would require innumerable hours of research, outreach, and data transformation. Nonprofit data is mixed with for-profit data.

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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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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. Project Censored , the media is going to be covered. EP: Well, Mayor Newsom has already given Michael the green hat, from San Francisco Green, because he works with the project Homeless Connect people.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 26, 2006

Sounded like she needs something I've seen in Brazil, and so I hope to make the connection. Rory Stear, the head of Freeplay Energy, met with Nicholas Negroponte of MIT's Media Lab about their $100 laptop project. Rory is normally quite skeptical, but he was enthusiastic about the possibility that this would really make an impact.

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Care2

APRIL 21, 2008

Campaign Stats: 6 employees and 2 interns, all working on other projects were responsible for the successful campaign launch with over 100,000 online participants who created 1,000 avatars online. The total staff involved six employees and two interns who were also working on other projects. How did you promote it?

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Care2

APRIL 21, 2008

Campaign Stats: 6 employees and 2 interns, all working on other projects were responsible for the successful campaign launch with over 100,000 online participants who created 1,000 avatars online. The total staff involved six employees and two interns who were also working on other projects. How did you promote it?

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

And this also led me to work with a lot of social projects because it happens a lot of times the same, right? So in one of the projects I was working on, we recorded podcasts with different communities that we were working with. And now WhatsApp is rolling out a payment feature in Brazil. It started only in Brazil.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 19, 2006

And I'd see Shape of Water/Diana's Story/Tibetan Nun's Project on November 12 at 3:45 PM, tix $12. TIBETAN NUN'S PROJECT (0:05) Dir - www.channelg.tv The Tibetan Nun's Project supports nuns in six different nunneries, two of which we have built from the ground up. What's on your plate? Where does it come from?

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

They came from the favelas of Brazil, from Alaska, from the Bronx, immigrant women from the Bronx. The ones we felt that with the proper training could become loud voices for their communities, and really offer solutions and a fresh perspective to the world agenda.

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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. And, although the “document and denounce” approach of human rights was essential, it was not sufficient.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 8, 2006

And when we, my co-author Bryant Terry and I, were talking about doing this book project together, and we were trying to think about, is there one word out there to describe the food that we talk about in the book, and that we encourage people to support and to buy and to eat, and we celebrate? The way U.S.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 19, 2006

And one thing that attracted me about the global financial campaign was that it was actually redirecting the economic flow so that we could create standards around which there would be no capital investment available for those bottom-of-the-barrel projects any more. Britt Bravo: How did you come to this work? Thanks for listening.

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