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Volunteer with Shunku Llacta and Visit the Rainforests of Ecuador

Have Fun - Do Good

In June 2005, my friend Abby Jaramillo, the Executive Director of Urban Sprouts , brought six international volunteers to two rural communities in the rainforests of Ecuador, Guayabillas and Santa Rosa, with the organization Shunku Llacta. Ecuador volunteer rainforest artisan Photo: A volunteer helps to harvest fruit.

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Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights at WIPO

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Hot issue this week are the now four proposals on solving the problem of access to print by people with print disabilities globally: The TVI: the treaty sponsored originally by the World Blind Union and supported at WIPO by Brazil, Ecuador, Paraguay and Mexico. [I I was one of the co-drafters of the treaty language] The U.S.

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A Nonprofit Partnership: How One Board Member Connected Two Organizations and Boosted Both

Blue Avocado

Meet Natasha Piñeiros Natasha Piñeiros grew up in Ecuador and moved to New Jersey at 13 years old. I’m from Ecuador — and being in this country as a young immigrant has shaped my experience of how I see the inequalities people experience.” She finished high school and decided to go to community college.

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Authorized Entities Trusted Intermediaries

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

This was first introduced (to my knowledge) in the Stakeholder's Platform discussions, which were the quickly ginned-up alternative option created in response to the original introduction at WIPO of the Treaty for the Visually Impaired ("TVI") by Brazil, Ecuador and Paraguay (and now co-sponsored by Mexico). The concept of TIs uses U.S.

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Seth Mazow from Interplast is live blogging from Ecuador

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Jorge Palacios And A Resident Setting The Schedule Originally uploaded by interplast. Read his first post here. Seth is doing this so Interplast supporters can learn first-hand how the organization spends its money. Stop by, read the post, ask questions, etc.

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How to Turn Video Views Into Life-Saving Dollars

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In places we assist, like Ecuador, less than 50 dollars keeps a person needing insulin alive for an entire year as it covers the transport cost for us to send the donated insulin.”. Ron Raab, President of Insulin For Life told us: “Every time someone watches this video, it will make a real contribution to someone actually staying alive.

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Member Round Up: We've got dancing babies!

NTEN

Teams in Croatia, Ecuador, Jordan, and the United States were awarded $75,000, software, cloud computing services, solution provider support, and access to other Microsoft resources. Anything we missed?

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