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President's Update: Summer 2008

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Department of Education gave us a major award on September 28, 2007. We've been developing Miradi for three years together with the Conservation Measures Partnership (which includes groups like The Nature Conservancy and the World Wildlife Fund), and began beta testing the software in 2007. The feedback has been amazing.

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Women Activists Profiled by Mariane Pearl in Glamour

Have Fun - Do Good

Canada: Sheila Watt-Cloutier, an Inuit activist, former chair of the Inuit Circumpolar Conference , and 2007 Nobel Peace Prize nominee. Liberia: Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the president of Liberia, and Africa's first elected female head of state.

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The Global Fund for Women: An Interview with Kavita Ramdas

Have Fun - Do Good

She has been the recipient of many awards, including Fast Company's 2007 Social Capitalist Award, and the League of Women Voters' Women Who Could Be President Award. I just saw a remarkable film made about a grantee organization that the Global Fund had supported for many years in Liberia.

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