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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. Now, three hundred bucks a year doesn't sound like a lot of money, right?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society - Untitled Article

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The Voices of Davos This meeting is all about conversations. I just want to share some of the voices I've heard so far this week. Sounded like she needs something I've seen in Brazil, and so I hope to make the connection. These are based on my contemporaneous notes.

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[VIDEO] Using WhatsApp to Increase Engagement with Multicultural Communities

Bloomerang

So in Spanish, it’s with a J so it would sound an English jajaja, but in English, it’s with an H, but the H in Spanish is silent. And the last thing which is super important as how can I include the voices? They can send you a voice note. So share local voices and also get people to take offline action.

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Solutionary Women: Anna Lappé of Grub

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And in that book we were really interested in hearing the voices, the stories of people around the world that were addressing the root causes of hunger and poverty. So I thought, "Wow, this sounds like an amazing organization," and then I read about the founder and it turned out that he lived five blocks away from me in this neighborhood.

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Nonprofit Technology News for June 2013

Tech Soup

The leaders in adoption are China, India, Indonesia, Iran, Russia, Nigeria, the Philippines, Brazil, and Mexico. They’ll be voice- or gesture-controlled. There are now 2.4 billion Internet users around the world, and Internet growth continues to be brisk, especially in developing countries. Digital Inclusion.

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Big Vision Podcast: Interview with llyse Hogue Rainforest Action Network

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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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