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Traveling Postcards: Interview with Founder, Caroline Lovell

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Several years ago, I had an opportunity to travel to Costa Rica with a group of artists. Education, healthcare, violence, lack of economic resources, trafficking, to name just a few. Use the resources we provide online as a starting point. Everyone has found it possible to share her voice by making a card.

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Meet the Nonprofit Hero Behind the Hardware: Charles Brennick

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He subsequently worked as an ecotourism developer in Costa Rica. He saw firsthand the benefits that access to technology, especially computers and the Internet, have for remote organizations with limited resources. He founded InterConnection in Seattle in 1999.

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Colombia is the 2nd Happiest Place for the Planet

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Costa Rica 4. It shows the relative efficiency with which nations convert the planet’s natural resources into long and happy lives for their citizens. The top ranked countries were: 1. Colombia 3. Dominica 5. Honduras 8. Guatemala 9. El Salvador 10.

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Break the Bias: Changing the Game for Girls & Women

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In partnership with women’s rights funds, sport for development organizations and feminist sport activists, Women Win launched the ONSIDE Fund — a participatory grantmaking mechanism that rapidly mobilises unrestricted resources for girls and young women-led organisations and groups through a pooled fund.

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Snapshot of Worldwide Electronics Recycling 2013

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Japan has a structured system based on their Law for the Recycling of Specified Kinds of Home Appliances and their Law for Promotion of Effective Utilization of Resources. Four countries in Latin America now have e-waste laws or rules: Costa Rica, Colombia, Peru, and Brazil. Their system recovers around 75 percent of e-waste.