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22 Statistics About #GivingTuesday Donors Worldwide

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By Region: Africa – 12%. Children and youth – 10%. Education and literacy – 5%. The median gift size was $50. From the 2020 Global Trends in Giving Report : 2) 9% of donors worldwide donated to a nonprofit, NGO, or charity on GivingTuesday 2019. Asia – 26%. Australia and New Zealand – 7%.

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Philanthropy Delivers New Promise of Quality Education for All

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Investing in education has an incredible multiplier effect as it leads to increased prosperity not just for individuals, but also for their communities and societies. Gallucci noted that there was one statistic that matters to him: “There are 39 million girls globally that should be in secondary education, and who are not.”

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Raise Your Hand for Girls on October 11, 2012

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Not only is this unjust, it’s also a huge waste of potential with serious global consequences. Millions of girls are being denied an education right at a time when it has the power to transform their lives and the world around them. …more likely to be literate, healthy and survive into adulthood, as are her children.

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What is Corporate Giving? The Ultimate Guide to Earning More

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They may prefer for their employees to only give to education-based organizations or environment-oriented nonprofits, depending on the type of work that resonates with the company. Scholarships For schools and education-based nonprofits, scholarships are the ultimate form of corporate giving.

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Empowering Women Citizen Journalists: An Interview with Cristi Hegranes

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"Now, 18 months later, all of Juana's children are in school. So often, government control, or just lack of access to information and media, prevents people from really being able to be educated and informed about serious issues that are going on around them. Many of our trainees and journalists in Nepal do have children.

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My Latest President's Update

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

When he was 22, Craig launched a company to help partially sighted children. He plans to start a search fund (a vehicle for entrepreneurs to raise funds from investors) to find businesses – and intellectual property – that have a social focus to help out developing countries, particularly South Africa.

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Big Vision Podcast: Steve Williams from POWER

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If you look at the history in South Africa, and the movement to end the apartheid regime, or if you look at the revolution in Cuba, where literally the island was essentially a playground for rich people from the United States. But, then also recognizing it has real positive impacts on our ability to have community with each other.

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