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How Text Messaging Has Revolutionized Giving

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Most of our board placements love nothing better than joining a board where they can be a voice of change. Perhaps that voice in 2017 will be to help your nonprofit adopt text messaging as a new way of fundraising. SAWA-Australia is a nonprofit organization aimed at providing Afghanistan women with education and health services.

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Break the Bias: Changing the Game for Girls & Women

Saleforce Nonprofit

The takeover by the Taliban in Afghanistan earlier this year instantly sent the future of girls and women in that country into chaos. Women and girls in particular have felt the impacts of a never-ending global health pandemic, conflict and displacement, and authoritarian government takeovers, to name a few. Credit: GOLEES.

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Women of Color Resource Center: An Interview with Anisha Desai

Have Fun - Do Good

AD: I think it is important to start by saying that the Women of Color Resource Center came out of a lot of political thinking and activism of the late '60s and '70s, when women of color really felt that it was important that their voices be heard in a movement that was largely dominated by men, and also white women and white allies.

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Nonprofit Technology News for September 2013

Tech Soup

” Their history of smartwatches is also good. The UK NPTech website, Charity Digital News reports that the Royal London Society for the Blind and IBM are creating a new voice controlled screen reading application called the Chatty Web. Health tracker. Security device. Apparently it all started in 2001 with the IBM Watchpad.

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Must Hear Speech from Barack Obama and the Power of Podcasting

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There is something powerful about hearing Barack Obama's voice or the children's voices from the UNICEF podcasts or Nelson Mandela's voice from the recent ONE campaign podcast , inside your head. Already we are getting reports that the situation in Afghanistan is deteriorating. You feel close to them and their cause.

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The Global Fund for Women: An Interview with Kavita Ramdas

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It is a good thing we are doing this in Women's History Month. I like to remind people of the fact that for $50 you can put a young girl through school in Afghanistan for a year. It hasn't happened in Latin America's history. I think in the United States, it is rare these days to remember the sheroes.

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