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5 Organizations To Support On World Refugee Day

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Asylum Access focuses on refugees from Africa, Asia, and Latin America (the areas with most of the world’s refugees), and works to help refugees assert their rights in the present and transform systems for a safer and more just future. Asylum Access.

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International Women’s Day: Using Technology to Empower Women and Girls

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It is an outrage that girls account for 74% of all new HIV infections among adolescents in Africa, and 40% of women on the continent suffer from anemia which results in 20% of maternal deaths. I’ve been committed to working on technology capacity building for organizations serving Women and Girls empowerment.

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Bridging the Opportunity Divide – Empowering Youth to Imagine and Realize their Futures

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Mary Mwende told us about her journey from Mombasa, Kenya, to being one of ten girls chosen for the Global Give Back Circle , a mentoring and empowerment program. Matt Howard is a young man who is involved with one of Microsoft’s newly announced youth partner nonprofits, Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE).

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Schwab Social Entrepreneurs Summit 2007

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Schwab Foundation board members Paolo Coehlo (the noted Brazilian author), Zanelle Mbeki (first lady of South Africa) and Hilde Schwab, the co-founder of the Schwab Foundation. On Monday we were joined by a dazzling array of global leaders who are interested in social entrepreneurship. Roger Martin, dean of the U.

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Creating Learning Experiences That Connect, Inspire, and Engage

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I am very excited about upcoming peer learning projects that I’m working on in 2012, including several for Packard grantees in India, Pakistan, and Africa as well as the e-Mediat project in the Middle East. It’s more fun to teach this way and more fun to learn this. That’s the theory at least.

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Off the Mat, Into the World: An Interview with Seane Corn

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Then, I started going around the country teaching workshops around spiritual activism: why it's important to take your yoga off the mat and into the world, and the different ways that we can get involved. When I went in to meet these kids, I thought I'd teach them a little bit of yoga, help them out. I'm pretty confident we can do it.