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Giving Trends in Brazil: How Crowdfunding & Social Entrepreneurs Are Transforming the Nonprofit Sector

Nonprofit Tech for Good

It’s incredible to see thousands of small NGOs doing so much with so little resources. Small nonprofits in Brazil are usually created by social entrepreneurs in the slums or other low-income zones, people with no management skills but lots of love to give. It’s something incredible.

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14+ Excellent Nonprofit Annual Reports

Whole Whale

In our data culture , we suggest your nonprofit takes the time to put one together as a means of showing your organization’s transparency — and bragging about your success in the past year. The nonprofit lets the impact stand on its own on certain pages – no pictures, very little language, and lots of white space.

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Vietnam and Indonesia Join TechSoup Asia’s Growing Family

Tech Soup

We proudly welcome NGO partners Vietnet-ICT and the Lin Centre in Vietnam, as well as ASEAN Foundation , Kopernik Marketplace , and YCAB Foundation in Indonesia to the TechSoup Global family. Our New NGO Partners in Vietnam. English is increasingly favored as a second language. Our New NGO Partners in Indonesia.

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Interview with My Dad, Tom Aageson, Co-Founder, Global Center for Cultural Entrepreneurship

Have Fun - Do Good

"If we start losing cultural diversity, we begin to lose our whole sense of community because community is defined by culture. My dad is the co-founder of the Global Center for Cultural Entrepreneurship. Before moving to Santa Fe, he was the Director of Aid to Artisans , an international artisan enterprise development NGO.

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Blogging To Improve Cambodia's Environment

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

My sister was working for an NGO as a volunteer agriculturist in Cambodia and encouraged me to take a job there. Tell us about your work in Cambodia with the NGO, Mlup Baitong. It was difficult to learn to the language at first! Although I come from a different culture, it doesn't hamper my work. Mlup Baitong???s

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Collecting Data in Low Resource Areas: How to Get Started

NTEN

Imagine this scenario: You’re an NGO working in an African country to advocate for clean water. Wikis and blogs require some writing skills (in addition to power). Sometimes the problem is cultural. Sometimes, it’s having the solution use local languages or other appropriate cultural marks.

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Solutionary Women: Viet-Ly Nguyen

Have Fun - Do Good

I work with a co-facilitator and we visit sixth grade language arts and social studies classes for two-week writing workshops. Viet-Ly: The biggest challenge is that some of the students have very low writing skills. Actually, I find out pretty soon, but I want to be a middle school Language Arts/Social Studies teacher.