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UpEnergy: cool for-profit social enterprise

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

They are already active in Africa and Latin America, in countries like Uganda, Rwanda, Liberia, El Salvador, Mexico, Guatemala and Nicaragua. The founding team includes leaders from each of the first three Gold Standard clean cookstove projects (and these projects delivered more than half a million stoves).

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How Donorbox powers these nonprofits’ fundraising

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Schoolchildren in El Salvador, young constituents of the Salvadoran American Humanitarian Foundation. Salvadoran American Humanitarian Aid Foundation (SAHF) is a nonprofit non-sectarian tax-exempt 501(c)(3) that operates in El Salvador through its affiliated foundation FUSAL in the country and other agencies.

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Please Help: Volunteers Needed To Help With Hurricane Wiki To Prep for Hurricane Ida

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

That is until Hurricane Ida slammed into El Salvador killing 91 people as of this writing. Source: Weather Channel Alerts 2009 was looking like a very uneventful hurricane season. It is now headed towards the gulf coast of the US.

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Video Can Help Boost Donations in End-Of-The-Year Fundraising

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The American Jewish World Service (AJWS) , for example, shot amazing video of their work in India, Uganda and El Salvador a few years ago. One way to make video more affordable is to reuse existing assets. In 2010 much of their focus was on responding to the earthquake in Haiti.

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Research Friday: Why Give to International Charities?

ASU Lodestar Center

She has vast international experience since she was born in El Salvador and has lived in California, Arkansas, Mexico, Guatemala, and Arizona while also traveling to several other countries. I am not suggesting giving 100 percent of our contributions to international causes. but what about giving just a little more?

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Colombia is the 2nd Happiest Place for the Planet

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El Salvador 10. The HPI is calculated by adding the country's life expectancy with its life satisfaction divided by its ecological footprint. The top ranked countries were: 1. Colombia 3. Costa Rica 4. Dominica 5. Honduras 8. Guatemala 9. Vincent and the Grenadines " The Index doesn’t reveal the ‘happiest’ country in the world.

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Research Friday: Legal Structure Alternatives to Lead Social Change

ASU Lodestar Center

She has vast international experience since she was born in El Salvador and has lived and traveled in several other countries. Karina Lungo is a graduate student in the MNpS program at Arizona State University. Today she works for the ASU Lodestar Center as a Research Aide for Arizona Scope of the Sector and Compensation Studies.