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What You Need to Know About the Largest Vaccine Operation in History

Saleforce Nonprofit

We support children and their families from pregnancy to early childhood through to adolescence, and many live in some of the world’s most rural, vulnerable, and remote communities. As the world’s largest vaccine buyer, we’ve built great relationships with some of the leading global vaccine manufacturers. Vaccine Delivery!

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United Nations Sets a New Agenda for Global Philanthropy

Tech Soup

These new UN Sustainable Development Goals are the de facto agenda for global philanthropy, and they have a new dimension: technology targets to enable implementation. In 2012, UN Secretary General Ban-Ki Moon launched the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) to mobilize global scientific and technological expertise.

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New Ideas at TED2014

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Improving childhood nutrition. I explained Benetech’s efforts to grow the impact of our Bookshare library globally, specifically discussing partnerships with groups in India and Kenya. Andrew’s challenge wasn’t an empty one: his team could measure the effectiveness of interventions we might try and see how well they work.

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6 Steps to Zeroing Out Child Labour Globally

Saleforce Nonprofit

Child labour is a violation of every child’s right to a childhood. And even as these dire consequences are known, child labour has increased globally to 160 million. Read more about the global effort to end child labour in this joint report by the ILO and UNICEF Opens new window. About the Author. Kevin Cassidy.

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7- Step Non-Profit Plan to Attract and Keep Corporate Partners

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

You’ll learn from global marketing leads at Coca-Cola, Starbucks, Toyota, the UN Foundation and charity:water at the We First Seminar. Measurement and metrics: While corporations are keen to increase their social impact work, they are still faced with justifying the cost to leadership. com for details).

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10 Organizations Leading The Way This Mental Health Awareness Month

Everyaction

The Village Network considers itself a not-for-profit with a for-profit mentality, in the sense that they use sound business principles such as research-based leadership to build a forward-thinking and constantly developing model for helping youth rise above adverse childhood experiences to lead healthy and positive lives.

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14LCS Idea Accelerator Pitches - Onward!

NTEN

Virtual Parent/Family Education - Richard Wollenberger This tool will provide video chat help for parents with children aged P-5/6; Trained parent educators will provide research-based support for specific early childhood issues via video chat. Design solutions for collaboration, empowerment, global views, and self awareness.

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