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International Leadership, Women’s Issues, and Branding—A Conversation With Allison K. Summers, CAE

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In the United States, only approximately four states have a law prohibiting marriage under the age of 18. Zonta International, where Allison served as Executive Director* and Chief Staff Executive, was honored with the 2021 ASAE Summit Award for the UNFPA-UNICEFF Global Program to End Child Marriage.

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Gates, Ford, Open Society announce commitments for gender equality

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billion, $420 million, and $100 million, respectively, over five years in support of efforts to advance gender equality globally. The Bill & Melinda Gates , Ford , and Open Society foundations have announced commitments of $2.1

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Nonprofit Advocacy Can Be a Force Multiplier for Social Change

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We were up against immense political pressure to rescind the award. Like many philanthropists and social entrepreneurs who are eager to make large-scale change, we found that redirecting government policy and funding to more effective approaches offers tremendous leverage for realizing national (and international) impact.

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10 Awesome LGBTQ Organizations You Should Support This Pride Month

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The LGBTQ Victory Fund is the only national organization dedicated to electing openly LGBTQ people to all levels of government. Transgender Law Center. Transgender Law Center is the largest national trans-led organization advocating self-determination for all people. LGBTQ Victory Fund.

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Stick To Our Knitting? What Is TechSoup?

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In a recent blog post , in which our nonprofit, TechSoup, advocated for Net Neutrality, there were several responses that have an interestingly identical structure: (a) Government should stay out of the Internet; (b) There are technical issues involved that TechSoup does not understand; and. (c)

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Donor Spotlight: Lavelle Fund for the Blind

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Soon afterwards in 2007, we won our first major award from the United States Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP), which, in turn, allowed us to build Bookshare into a national asset. government and states like Texas. The Lavelle Fund also supports programs benefiting the developing world.

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Calling all Faith-Based Organizations! Think You Could Use a Free Tablet?

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The Local Impact Map is a rich storytelling platform that uses mapping technology to place stories in a global context — as you can see in the picture below. It reaches our global network resources and, combined with TechSoup.org, has over 5 million annual site visits. Suite 100, San Francisco, CA 94107, U.S.A. a) In General.