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Announcing Our Second Impact Labs Cohort on Zero Hunger: Supporting Small-Scale Farmers Globally

Saleforce Nonprofit

Hunger is a global issue that affects everyone, everywhere. An estimated 811 million people are hungry globally. Supporting them is not only essential to the global community’s food supply, but also to the day-to-day well-being of the communities in which they work and live. Why Small-Scale Farmers? Dun-Ying Vicki Yu.

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New data for strategic disaster philanthropy 

Candid

Our collective attention has been almost singularly focused on the pandemic and its global effects. Cyclone Idai struck Malawi, Mozambique and Zimbabwe, causing widespread flood destruction. The COVID-19 pandemic has filled our newsfeeds, our schools, our politics, and our living rooms for two years.

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Online BBC World Debate on Global Recession: A Developing World Emergency

Forum One

The World Bank and the BBC are running a live debate online and offline tomorrow, April 23 on the global economic recession. A BBC World Debate titled "Global Recession: A Developing World Emergency" will be held on April 23rd at the World Bank headquarters in Washington, D.C.

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The Steep Challenges of Philanthropy to the Muslim World

Tech Soup

TechSoup Global’s Dara Westling attended the recent Global Donors Forum in Washington, D.C. She is our vice president of development alliances and global media for TechSoup Global’s domestic and international programs. We connect the local with global resources.” Dara Westling.

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Nonprofit Technology News for October 2013

Tech Soup

Now, here's the latest: Global Digital Inclusion. Ah yes, another month and another massive global digital inclusion initiative. In Mozambique, for example, a recent study showed that using just 1GB of data can cost well over two months’ wages for the average citizen. trillion in 2012 and will nearly double to $8.9

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All for Green, and Green for All: An Interview with Van Jones

Have Fun - Do Good

He has won many honors, including the 1998 Reebok International Human Rights Award, the International Ashoka Fellowship, selection as a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader, and the Rockefeller Foundation Next Generation Leadership Fellowship. It is actually really understandable. and you kind of go through your rebel phase.

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