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

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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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Funding & Grant Resources For Women’s Empowerment Organizations

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Their Art Meets Activism grant supports feminist artists and organizations in Kentucky to engage individuals and communities in artmaking that directly advances positive social change. This free course will teach you the most efficient way to search for grants and exactly how to identify funders who best align with your own organization.

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2021 Funding & Grant Resources For Women’s Empowerment Organizations

Kindful

Their Art Meets Activism grant supports feminist artists and organizations in Kentucky to engage individuals and communities in artmaking that directly advances positive social change. This free course will teach you the most efficient way to search for grants and exactly how to identify funders who best align with your own organization.

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Nurturing Inner City Entrepreneurs: Jose Corona of Inner City Advisors

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The other thing is that a lot of inner cities are part of empowerment zones or enterprise zones where companies that are at a certain scale and profitable can benefit from tax credits, both from the payroll side, if you hire from the inner city, but also if you locate in the enterprise zones. They're artists so they think big.

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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 didn't realize this until later.

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Using Photography to Change the World: An Interview with Paola Gianturco

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Britt Bravo: In so many of the groups you profiled, the women were using the arts for education, empowerment, or healing. Right at the end of that period, I also was teaching. And second, I was exhausted from having continued to do consulting and teaching at the same time. I thought, "My God, I've just bought myself a year!"

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Alli Chagi-Starr, Art in Action/Ella Baker Center, Podcast Interview Transcription

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In addition to being an artist, performer and dancer, Alli is also a writer whose most recent piece can be found in the Code Pink anthology, Stop the Next War Now. We'll be taking with arts activist Alli Chagi-Starr, the Cultural Arts Director for the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights ' Reclaim the Future Program.

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