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BiGTech India Connects Nonprofits with IT Students

Tech Soup

Joy of Giving Week is a "festival of philanthropy" held October 2 through 8 all over India in conjunction with Mohandas Gandhi's birthday. To celebrate, TechSoup's partner in India, BiGTech , held the Find an IT Partner event in Mumbai to connect local nonprofits with IT students.

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Donor Spotlight: Lavelle Fund for the Blind

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The Lavelle Fund exemplifies the tremendous social return that bold philanthropy can create. Frankly, it didn’t go as well as we had hoped, and Lavelle worked with us to retarget the grant to focus on students with visual impairments. We first extended Bookshare services internationally in 2008 with the launch of Bookshare in India.

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10X: CEO’s Update: Spring 2014

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The Global Literacy team, led by VP & General Manager Betsy Beaumon, just celebrated our latest major milestones: serving 300,000 members, the majority of whom are American students with disabilities, and offering 250,000 accessible books on the virtual shelves of our library.

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Research Friday: Generosity Expanded: The Impact!

ASU Lodestar Center

continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit scholar, student, or professional to. However, the 5 percent given to international causes reflected a 15.3 This level of increased global philanthropy is worth a further look. government aid, capital investment, philanthropy and remittances. PHILANTHROPY (U.S.

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What GlobalGiving Learned About The Second-Most Used Currency In The World

Global Giving

dollars and British pounds, and donors in India and East Africa can contribute in their local currencies via our partnerships with ImpactGuru and M-Changa. A constant theme we’ve seen across all our experiments and partnerships related to expanding the global reach of philanthropy is that every market and currency is substantially different.

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Symantec Gives Back

Tech Soup

Another way they’re helping is through the internal Symantec Women's Action Network ( SWAN ) — which has eleven chapters and 1,350 members — and is designed to attract talented women and support their careers at Symantec. Corporate Philanthropy and the Nonprofit Sector. Employee Engagement and Giving.

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The Future of Social: Gen Z

NonProfit Hub

While there are larger numbers of Gen Z in India, China and Nigeria compared to UK or US, they are truly a global organization. And there is Jack Andraka , a high school student who got obsessed with finding a cure for cancer and created a test that can detect pancreatic cancer. They are not content to just sit and click.

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