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Break the Bias: Changing the Game for Girls & Women

Saleforce Nonprofit

Fundacion GOLEES is based in Costa Rica and works with girls and women ages 10-60. Through football, they create spaces for social transformation where girls and women can develop fully, without patriarchal restrictions or inequities.

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Welcoming Joleen Ong as NTEN's new Marketing and Publications Director

NTEN

Her passion stems from her field work in Costa Rica, where she researched the social impact of banana workers while running a small cafe with her husband. Joleen''s roots are in campus organizing, and has led numerous successful campaigns to increase responsible procurement with Fair Trade.

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The 13th Issue of NTEN: Change is Out - "Competitive & Innovative Nonprofits"

NTEN

Look inside to learn the story behind the cover portrait, a tribute to Juanita Baltodano, President of the APPTA Fair Trade cacao and banana cooperative in Costa Rica. We’re proud to welcome new Editorial Committee members, and introduce Ashley Paulisick, the artist behind the cover painting.

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Fish Tale Has DNA Hook

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Dan Janzen has continued to explore the power of DNA-barcoding, plus regular taxonomy, coupled with some extraordinary field-sampling (ecological forensic science) in Guanacaste National Park in Costa Rica, to probe the hidden diversity lurking beneath the surface of morphospecies - "Extreme diversity of tropical parasitoid wasps exposed by iterative (..)

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Live The Questions Now

Global Giving

Featured Photo: Empower Youth through Technology in Costa Rica by Asociacion ideas en Accion. Live the questions now. Want more tips like this? Subscribe to get the best content from the Learn Library once a month. The post Live The Questions Now appeared first on Learn - GlobalGiving.

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Welcoming Joleen Ong as NTEN's new Marketing and Publications Director

NTEN

Her passion stems from her field work in Costa Rica, where she researched the social impact of banana workers while running a small cafe with her husband. Joleen''s roots are in campus organizing, and has led numerous successful campaigns to increase responsible procurement with Fair Trade.

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Meet the Nonprofit Hero Behind the Hardware: Charles Brennick

Tech Soup Blog

He subsequently worked as an ecotourism developer in Costa Rica. Charles got interested in this type of charitable work while he served in the Peace Corps in Paraguay in the early 1990s. He saw firsthand the benefits that access to technology, especially computers and the Internet, have for remote organizations with limited resources.