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Ways We Can All Help Advance Women’s and Girls’ Empowerment

Connection Cafe

Women’s and girls’ empowerment is a sweeping topic, defined and shaped by family beliefs and cultural norms in the community and country where one lives. And while education and financial independence are critical steps to empowerment, they are merely two pieces of a much bigger and far more complicated story. We can notice.

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Funding And Grant Resources For Nonprofits Focused On Youth Programs

Kindful

Many foundations focus much of their philanthropy work on youth empowerment—and for good reason. The foundations on this list are just a few of the many that understand the importance that youth empowerment plays in helping young people from all backgrounds grow and excel during this critical stage of their life. Areas served: US.

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How to Prevent Burnout at Your Nonprofit, From the Experts

Classy

To prevent burnout from taking over your nonprofit’s culture, passion, and productivity, you have to understand it. We’re bringing that honest conversation right to you with some new voices with a passion for nonprofit culture and employee wellness. . Krista joined the Austin Angels staff in 2018 without hesitation.

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This day was intended to celebrate the social, economic, cultural and political achievement of women. The One Campaign has launched an open letter signed by 86 leading voices for women around the world. I’ve been committed to working on technology capacity building for organizations serving Women and Girls empowerment.

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Building Community: Who / How / Why

Museum 2.0

We had incredible success transforming our institution into a vibrant cultural center. We are unapologetic about focusing local. Focusing local helps us define our community by identity. We focus on people who are culturally curious, actively creative… but may not see a traditional arts institution as a place for them.

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The Networked NGO in Pakistan

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

100% of participants implement an action learning project that uses measurement to help improve their practice, share insights with peers, and identify opportunities to amplify each other’s voices through social media. Her knowledge of the country and the culture made it easier to localize the curriculum.

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Meditations on Relevance, Part 3: Who Decides What's Relevant?

Museum 2.0

Emily started by honing in on local teens' assets: creativity, activist energy, desire to make a difference, desire to be heard, free time in the afternoon. She surveyed existing local programs. The most successful programs fostered youth empowerment and community leadership in various content areas: agriculture, technology, healing.

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