Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

a new company-wide initiative to create opportunities for 300 million young people around the world over the next three years. The initiative brings together an array of existing, new and enhanced global programs and partnerships that connect young people with better education, employment and entrepreneurship opportunities.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 19, 2009

Kjerstin Erickson is one of those people "shiny" people who lights up a room. Erickson founded FORGE (Facilitating Opportunities for Refugee Growth and Empowerment) in 2003 when she was a 20 year-old junior studying public policy at Stanford University. We like to refer to it as a "people-powered" development process.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 28, 2006

The most important way for people to collaborate is face to face, so we have a number of ways that we convene women who are doing this work on various different levels. For example, some of our women in Africa and India are interested in taking the ideas and the best practices that came out of this training into their regions.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 6, 2010

It's sort of a new form of philanthropy, where average people can be really engaged, make a huge, huge, huge difference, and have a lot of fun at the same time. Our combined donations range anywhere from $21,000-26,000 per month, depending on whether it's July and people are on vacation, or what's going on, and how many chapters meet.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 2, 2013

That said, in 2012 I had the opportunity to travel to Africa and Asia and from those travel experiences three themes emerged that inspired the selection of this year’s nonprofits: 1) Women’s and girls empowerment; 2) Conservation of wildlife and wild lands; and 3) Access to medical care. FINCA :: @ FINCA.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Nairobi, Kenya Next I headed to Nairobi, Kenya. Kampala, Uganda The Sixth Africa Forum was the main reason for my Africa trip. The Africa Forum is the premier meeting of blindness groups across sub-Saharan Africa, and it’s held roughly every three years. So, we fill in for them. Roger Martin).

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