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What Apple is doing with 25,000 acres of former cattle pastures in Brazil

Fast Company Tech

If you fly over one part of southwestern Brazil, youll see a patchwork of dozens of square plots where a local university is studying different methods of helping native plants regrow on former cattle pastures. In 2023, it pledged an additional $200 million for a second fund within the program.) It’s also quickly disappearing.

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Money talks: Why tuning into the Giving Pledge matters 

Candid

As the saying goes, “Money talks,” and there’s no better example of this than the Giving Pledge and its effect on the social sector. To date, 241 individuals with a cumulative net worth easily surpassing $1 trillion have made the pledge—a public commitment to give the majority of their fortunes to charity.

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[ASK AN EXPERT] Should Fundraiser Salaries Correlate With How Much Revenue They’ll Generate?

Bloomerang

neurology, pediatrics, or oncology at a hospital; agriculture, engineering, or sciences at a university). Or it could be between internal functions (e.g., This process continues for 18 months until, ultimately, the donor pledges a $250,000 gift. In fact, if you insist on this, youll inevitably set up turf wars.

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The Essential Nonprofit Fundraiser’s Guide to Mobile Giving

Bloomerang

The transition may take some internal adjusting, but it shouldnt be a complex integration. A study from the University of Notre Dame revealed that people are much less likely to donate to charities when using smartphones than when using computers. Gather pledges and send automated reminders to collect pledged donations.

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Nigeria’s AltSchool raises $1M pre-seed to build an alternative school for Africans

TechCrunch

In 2020, Yusuf toyed with the idea of building a physical campus where he and his team would train software engineers to get international opportunities. Yusuf met with educational stakeholders at a public university in Ife, a neighbouring town near Lagos, to pull this off, but the deal never materialized.

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5 Interesting Facts from the Giving USA 2011 Report

sgEngage

The Giving USA 2011 report is out and the team at The Giving USA Foundation and the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University have given plenty of data and statistics to sift through. There are 1,280,739 registered 501(c)(3) organizations with the Internal Revenue Service. and Linda H. It’s well worth the $75 cost.

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Nowports raises $16M to build the OS for LatAm’s shipping industry

TechCrunch

And, Nowports pledges to shippers that its digital management software will keep track of each container. . “Slow, inefficient, and manual processes in international logistics are disassociated from today’s technological world”, said Nowports co-founder and COO Maximiliano Casal. . It’s a big opportunity.