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Lessons from 2019 to maximize future disaster giving decisions

Candid

federal government, corporations, and donations through donor-advised funds (DAFs) and online platforms. . The Urgent Action Fund for Latin America and the Caribbean demonstrated this in 2019 when it awarded Articulação Nacional das Pescadoras Bahia a grant of $5,743 to strengthen women’s grassroots organizing in Brazil.

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Authorized Entities Trusted Intermediaries

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

A hot topic at the SCCR20/WIPO discussions in Geneva on global access to materials by the print disabilities is the term "Trusted Intermediaries"("TIs"). I'm solely focused on the requirements of a nonprofit organization/government agency needs to meet to be eligible to use the exception/norms. This is a crucial point.

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Fascinating Meeting at the Copyright Office

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

That worries me, because I don’t think I’ve heard about a groundswell of demand for changing Chafee in the United States, other than when one textbook publisher's representatives get up in public and sound like banking executives from five years ago (if the government would just stop regulating us, we'd take care of everything).

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Breakthrough on Global Access at WIPO in Geneva!

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

There has been a major breakthrough recently on international copyright negotiations in Geneva around improved access for people who have print disabilities. Through negotiations, four competing proposals have been merged into a single document supported in June by the Latin Americans (led by Brazil), the U.S.,

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Taking Local Currency Digital: A New Experiment Emerges

Non Profit Quarterly

There are now over 200 local currencies in use worldwide, according to a database maintained by the Schumacher Center, with popularity greatest in Europe and Brazil. The addition of a digital platform to the local paper currency will make BerkShares more accessible for users while broadening access for merchants.

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