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

Nonprofit Tech for Good

According to the Institute of Applied Economic Research , there are 820,000 existing NGOs, also know as ONGs (organizaciónes no gubernamentales), in Brazil. What would you like the world to know about NGOs and fundraising in Brazil? But small causes here in Brazil make a very big difference in social impact.

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Facebook is trying to stop the sale of Amazon rainforest land on its Marketplace

The Verge

Photo by Ricardo Beliel/Brazil Photos/LightRocket via Getty Images. Listings may not promote the buying or selling of animals or animal products, or land in ecological conservation areas,” Facebook’s updated policy reads. Did you know you can sell land on Facebook Marketplace? Neither did I. Again, neither did I!

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12 Early Adopters of the.NGO and.ONG Domains

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Australian Wildlife Conservancy ● australianwildlife.ngo. Mission: To promote the right to education and to preserve the environment and cultural heritage of Brazil. Mission: To establish wildlife sanctuaries by acquiring land and through partnerships with landholders. Educate Girls ● educategirls.ngo.

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Can saving trees really turn bitcoin green?

TechCrunch

Instead, Bitso is working with Moss.Earth, a São Paulo, Brazil-based carbon offsets company, to indirectly mitigate the emissions associated with transacting bitcoin and Ethereum-based tokens via its platform. The exchange plans to do so by buying tokenized “credits from conservation projects in the Amazon Forest in Brazil.”.

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Facebook plans to expand its news tab beyond the US

The Verge

Facebook is planning to expand its dedicated news section and says it is “considering” the UK, Germany, France, India, and Brazil as possible recipients, it announced Tuesday. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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The toilet paper startup backed by Marc Benioff, Dara Khosrowshahi and Robert Downey Jr. now sells paper towels

TechCrunch

has grown so substantially that, in recent years, Canada has ranked third globally in its rate of intact forest loss — behind only Russia and Brazil — mostly due to logging, the NRDC said. Demand from the U.S. Ninety percent of that is clearcutting, which exacerbates climate change.

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??Forests are a multitrillion-dollar asset. Vibrant Planet bets SaaS can save them

TechCrunch

Having been trained as a landscape ecologist, I’ve grown somewhat cynical that forest conservation and the free market can exist in a mutually beneficial relationship. It’s trying to tackle a very real and very hard problem — how to first save, then restore, the world’s damaged forests.