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

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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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Kids and Philanthropy: Teaching Your Children To Be Charitable

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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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Upcoming Nonprofits Live: Storytelling and Collaborative Video

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employers in Brazil and the US. In Brazil, David wrote and directed. He learns, he teaches, he shares and he. His forthcoming. book, Você Vai me Servir ("You Will Serve Me," Annablume Publishers, São Paulo, 2012) is a comparative ethnographic study of relationships between domestic workers and their.

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Participation in Storytelling: Collaborative Video on Nonprofits Live

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His forthcoming book, Você Vai me Servir ("You Will Serve Me," Annablume Publishers, São Paulo, 2012) is a comparative ethnographic study of relationships between domestic workers and their employers in Brazil and the US. In Brazil, David wrote and directed newscasts for CurrentTV.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society - Untitled Article

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

One corporate chief executive offered extensive in-kind support for our digital literacy enterprises that provide the disabled access to talking books and teach reading to teenagers and adults who are not yet literate.

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Sarah Davies: Intellectual Property Legislation with Human Rights

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I've found that my generation has a habit of teaching ourselves new technologies, and I am no exception. About five years ago, Brazil violated American intellectual property agreements by producing an AIDS drug for a fraction of the cost of the American company who developed it. Are you trained as lawyer? I'm mostly a geek.