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Celebrate Community Storytelling

Tech Soup

The time to gala, glitz, and glam with industry leaders, talented techies, and a few of your favorite TechSoup staffers is almost here! Previously, Lisa served as the founding CEO of the 1:1 Fund, a project incubated by CFED to build a broad online and high net-worth donor base for children’s savings accounts.

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Vietnam and Indonesia Join TechSoup Asia’s Growing Family

Tech Soup

Since 1986, the country has been transitioning from a central-planned economy to a free-market system and trying to move from its dependency on agriculture to industry. The Kopernik website showcases the latest technologies for good, like portable water filters that remove waterborne bacteria, saving children’s lives.

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7 Nonprofits Leading the Fight Against Human Trafficking

Saleforce Nonprofit

Mission: The Code (short for “The Code of Conduct for the Protection of Children from Sexual Exploitation in Travel and Tourism”) is an industry-driven initiative to provide tourism businesses with the tools, knowledge, and support they need to prevent the sexual exploitation of children.

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A History of How Modern ESG Came to Be

sgEngage

Companies involved in the production of Agent Orange are still facing lawsuits from victims, both US veterans and civilians from Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos, to this day. . These laws have protected millions of men, women and children from disease and death and have protected hundreds of species from extinction.” Billion. . .

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Preventing Human Trafficking: An Interview with Christina Arnold

Have Fun - Do Good

They pay a smuggler to take them across the border to get them work, and then are tricked along the way and wind up in the fishing industry, wind up in very exploitative situations as domestic workers in people's homes, or factories, things like that. Many times they arrange their own transport. They agreed to be smuggled.