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Tech2Empower: The Llama Pack Project

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Last week I was got to work on a week-long service trip in Cusco, Peru as part of Wake: Women’s Alliance for Knowledge Exchange #Tech2empower program where womwn in who work in technology volunteer to share their professional skills and knowledge with women-run business owners. She walked up the steep climb with a the baby on her back.

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GOOD Magazine

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While on the plane to and from Peru I had A LOT of time to read. It's $20 and 100% goes to the charity of your choice: Ashoka, City Year, Creative Commons, Donors Choose, GenerationEngage, Millennium Promise, Oceana, Room to Read, Teach for America, WITNESS, World Wildlife Fund or UNICEF. I chose UNICEF. Good Magazine magazine

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Traveling Postcards: Interview with Founder, Caroline Lovell

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Afterwards, one woman told me that she hadn’t felt anything in such a long time, and now she felt happy. Education, healthcare, violence, lack of economic resources, trafficking, to name just a few. We are also funding very special after school art classes in Afghanistan through our partnership with Trust In Education.

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Interview with My Dad, Tom Aageson, Co-Founder, Global Center for Cultural Entrepreneurship

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Towards that vision, they are creating a networked community of cultural entrepreneurs, cultural investors, and cultural entrepreneurship educators. There were many artists painting part-time in this genre, but none of them really had a market. A dedicated maritime gallery did not exist before. That's the difference between the two.

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Tools to End Poverty: An Interview with Martin Fisher of KickStart

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The series featured stories of 12 social entrepreneurs including Martin Fisher and Nick Moon, the co-Founders of KickStart (which was called ApproTEC at the time of the series). And so, coming up with a brand new business idea is actually very, very difficult for a person who has very little education, who has very little exposure to media.

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Online Storytelling & Cause Marketing: An Interview with Jonah Sachs of Free Range Studios

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Before I left for Peru, I did an interview for the Big Vision Podcast with Jonah Sachs, the Principal of Free Range Studios , an advertising and marketing firm with offices in Washington DC and Berkeley, California that specializes in non-profits and socially responsible businesses. Britt: That is one of your best known success stories.