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Senators Urged To Protect NGOs Via Systems, Staffing, Sanctions

The NonProfit Times

International nonprofits and other non-government organizations (NGOs) need American support to function, or even exist, a trio of witnesses told U.S. Repressive regimes around the world have realized they can use legislation to give oppressing nonprofits and other NGOs the veneer of legality, the witnesses attested.

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What happened when this entrepreneur put her startup on hold to help Ukraine, and told VCs to donate

TechCrunch

When Russia invaded her home country of Ukraine, U.K.-based But although her fundraiser raised plenty of money, Khi realized there was no viable NGO to distribute the supplies on the ground in the middle of a fast-moving war zone. This led her to creating the Sunflower Relief NGO. million to verified NGOs in Ukraine.

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A View of the Cloud from Brazil

Tech Soup

We discussed cloud adoption in Brazil's NGO sector with Valter Cegal of TechSoup Brasil. ATN is an NGO association of over 2,000 telecenters. It is one of the rapidly emerging " BRIC " economies, along with Russia, India and China.

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Metro4All — Making All Metro Systems Accessible

Tech Soup

So far, Metro4All has apps for 14 cities in Russia and other countries in Europe. It is now a diverse international group with team members in Russia, Belarus, Poland, Germany, and the U.S. We are interested and engaged in the international community mapping movement. There are no apps yet for U.S. How Metro4All Does It.

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Secretary of State Rubio says 83% of USAID programs are canceled

Fast Company Tech

Agency for International Development ,and he would move the 18% of aid and development programs that survived under the State Department. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Monday the Trump administration had finished its six-week purge of programs of the six-decade-old U.S. efforts abroad the Trump administration actually supports.

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