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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. nonprofits like Teach for America take on the hard work of rebuilding and reinventing education in places where schools have failed or where dropout rates among low-income children are very high. Back to School in Brazil.

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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. nonprofits like Teach for America take on the hard work of rebuilding and reinventing education in places where schools have failed or where dropout rates among low-income children are very high. Back to School in Brazil.

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Join Me Live From Brasil to Celebrate #GivingTuesday #DiadeDoar on 12/2 at 11:00 AM PST

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

On the overall rating Brazil is actually the 90th most generous country of the world.” As Joao points out, “ Unlike developed countries such as the United States and England, Brazilians do not give as a habit and the country figures in the 72nd place of giving amongst 135 countries in the latest World Giving Index.

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Green IT Accreditation Goes International

Tech Soup

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

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10X: CEO’s Update: Spring 2014

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

This represents a 10x growth over the past 6 years, and a 20% and 25% growth, respectively, over less than a year: growth rates associated more with successful commercial services, and unheard of in our field.

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Microsoft YouthSpark: A New Chapter in Citizenship at Microsoft

Tech Soup

In Brazil, approximately 40% of firms have difficulty finding qualified staff to fill vacancies due to low quality education. highest youth unemployment rate in the world (approximately 25%) and to. avoid increases in this rate, 15 million new jobs per year will need to. In Latin America, more young people. This region has the.

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Vietnam and Indonesia Join TechSoup Asia’s Growing Family

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Although Vietnam is regarded as a developing country, it has a literacy rate of 94 percent. Among all developing countries, Vietnam has one of the lowest unemployment rates. percent obesity rate, which ranks them as 186th. This was happening at the same time as a rising rate of junior high and high school dropouts.