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Update: Philanthropy’s response to Ukraine crisis

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Switzerland. While almost a third of grants went to organizations in Ukraine, recipient countries reflect giving to local chapters of the Red Cross and other international relief organizations, or to their Geneva-based headquarters. Switzerland and Ukraine together account for 21% of recipients and 53% of dollar value.

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Protecting Guatemala's National Police Historical Archive

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Protecting Guatemala's National Police Historical Archive A Guest Blog By Ann Harrison Benetech Communications Director Since 2003, Benetech's Martus information management software has helped human rights activists create encrypted databases and back up their data remotely to their choice of publicly available servers.

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My remarks just made at WIPO today

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

with print disabilities, with more than 70,000 copyrighted works in our library, the majority of which have been created under the US copyright exception by volunteers, mainly people with disabilities themselves, helping each other. • We now have global permissions for around 8,000 copyrighted books out of our 70,000. •

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Our WIPO Statement on the Treaty for Access for People with Disabilities

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Statement of Benetech to the 22nd Session of the Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights at the World Intellectual Property Organization June 15, 2011, Geneva, Switzerland • Greetings from California’s Silicon Valley! We would like to see a global norm comparable to the system that has worked so well in the U.S.

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Improve Your Fundraising Approach and Skills at NetSquared Meetups

Tech Soup

The targets need to be linked like so: --> Jump to events in North America or go international with events in. Puidoux, Switzerland: 7ème Journée Pédagogique ESV-SPV (AVMES/AVMD). Carouge, Switzerland: 12h de Hackaton pour Afficher les Termes et Conditions, Que Vous Ne Lirez Jamais. Africa and Middle East.

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Accessibility Excitement in Geneva

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The nexus for this work is the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), the United Nations agency that deals with such matters. WIPO Headquarters The event this last week at WIPO in Geneva, Switzerland, was the ninth meeting of the Stakeholder’s Platform, which was set up about the time the original Treaty draft was introduced.

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Get Help in Telling the Story of Your Nonprofit's Impact

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The targets need to be linked like so: --> Jump to events in North America , or go international with events in. Ilorin, Nigeria: Recession: Reviving the Nation's Economy Through Technology. Yverdon, Switzerland: Rentrée de l'Entraide Numérique. Renens, Switzerland: OpenLab: Visite du Fablab de Renens.