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Equitable and Inclusive Messaging: Retaining Donors in a New Age of Storytelling

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These guidelines can apply to all sectors of the nonprofit landscape: Use “person-first” language. Example: Sam came home from Afghanistan with PTSD that threatened his family, his job, and even his life. Painting a picture of equity and inclusion may be difficult to achieve if reality and aspiration do not align.

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Traveling Postcards: Interview with Founder, Caroline Lovell

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I feel that art is able to translate beyond language, and communicate a much larger vision of personal connection. We are also funding very special after school art classes in Afghanistan through our partnership with Trust In Education. What is the path that brought you to this work?

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Interview with Zainab Salbi, Founder of Women for Women International

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We work in countries like Congo, Rwanda, Sudan, Iraq, Afghanistan, Bosnia, Kosovo, among others. She speaks three languages fluently, Swahili, English, and French, among many other local languages. A Call to Action: Defend Women's Progress, Human Rights in Afghanistan by Zainab Salbi on the Huffington Post.

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The Global Fund for Women: An Interview with Kavita Ramdas

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Therefore, we are the only foundation I know of that will accept requests in any language, and in any format. Women and their children are disproportionately victims of outside violence as well. Women and children are 70% of those who live on less than $2 or $1 a day. I think that is what really motivates me to do this work.

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