Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2016

In 2016 half a billion women still cannot read, 62 million girls are denied the right to education and 155 countries still have laws that differentiate between men and women. The One Campaign has launched an open letter signed by 86 leading voices for women around the world. Tech2Empower: Helping Women in Cambodia.

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Classy

APRIL 27, 2021

We’re bringing that honest conversation right to you with some new voices with a passion for nonprofit culture and employee wellness. . She knew the job aligned her life experience, education, and passion to learn more about trauma, grit, grief, and resilience. Krista joined the Austin Angels staff in 2018 without hesitation.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

." ~ Caroline Lovell, Founder, Traveling Postcards Traveling Postcards facilitates the creation of handmade art postcards that are hand delivered all over the world to bringing awareness and voice to women and girls whose lives have suffered from isolation, violence, or repression. Honestly I think every postcard is a success story.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 22, 2007

Hadley School , the main distance education school for blind people in the U.S. Just got some information on this cool program: The Hadley School for the Blind has launched an innovative program of English language learning and empowerment which spans the Pacific Ocean. About ten students log on per chatting session.

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Tech Soup

MAY 28, 2013

We want to help inspire and educate you to be able to tell your own story with confidence and with success. We've seen the potential for simple, community empowerment focused solutions to have a tremendous impact on some of the world's most pressing health and sustainability issues. " Audience Choice Awards.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

But they aren’t going to cure cancer, reduce hunger, or improve pre-K education. Transcending "Social:" Visibility and Empowerment In An Uber-Mega-Meta Self-Conscious Age Speaker: Jianda Johnson, Business and Resource Development Specialist, Guadalupe Montessori School.

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AUGUST 25, 2009

Given the difficulty in unpacking all of the socio-economic, cultural, political, educational, and other mutually-reinforcing components of digital inequality, simple metaphors can't carry the weight. The educated were more likely to leave or choose Facebook. And who needs libraries when we have Wikipedia and Kindles?

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 29, 2015

HOW (slides 24-42) There are three “tracks” to our theory of change: individual empowerment, social bonding, and social bridging. Let’s start with empowerment. We seek to empower our visitors to raise their own civic and creative voices. Showing that their voice matters. And so on. But I hope you are working on one.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2016

And in several cases, the projects constituted "empowerment lite" for participants rather than true collaboration, co-creation, or transformation. In all cases, I found these warnings to be refreshing, educational insights that taught me more than any success stories could. In summary: read the report.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 8, 2007

The CHAG conducts peer education with 1400 people, but the advocacy and development programs work with the entire village. Our committee gets the chance to assert the community’s rights, and see that it has an effective voice. Empowerment” is a word that has become completely cheapened through overuse. But it is THEIR hard work.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 22, 2009

This is the fourth annual such event and is meant to organize pro-choice bloggers to write about choice, raise the profile of reproductive rights, and educate their readers about the issue. This kind of constituent empowerment effort as an organizing strategy is smart. And that I'm able to help them do it!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

I’ve known this for years, ever since I read Richard Mayer ‘s educational research in his book, The Handbook of Multi-Media Learning. The study was of medical school lectures. The instructor’s role should be to facilitate this understanding for their students, not dump content on them. Illustration by Beth Kanter.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 14, 2006

Although I knew adults would be involved, I wanted New Moon to express girls’ voices and dreams and ambitions, rather than adult goals for them. Much of the media aimed at girls gives them mixed messages about “empowerment” by implying it can be attained by buying certain products.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MARCH 8, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic is disproportionately affecting women and girls around the world, which threatens the gains made in the past decades in advancing women’s economic empowerment, health, rights, and safety. Overnight, educational opportunities disappeared — as did the right to play sports, work, and hold office. Credit: GOLEES.

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Everyaction

JULY 23, 2018

Using the expertise of its Chef Network, WCK works to empower people to be a part of the solution with a focus on health, education, jobs, and disaster relief. Our work started by focusing on long term empowerment projects. It really showcases our efforts moving from beyond just relief to empowerment.

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Media Cause

JUNE 16, 2022

Whether you’re looking for educational resources or want to get involved, these organizations are a great place to start. The Conscious Kid —The Conscious Kid is an education, research, and policy organization that supports families and educators in taking action to disrupt racism, inequity and bias. Educational Resources.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 25, 2008

Our work focuses on advocacy, policy, education and political thought that helps to shape the dialogue and public conversation about the interests of these folks. We also put together a popular education curriculum called Peace Games that focuses on the intersections of gender and militarism. That's one key piece.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

Do you support your local educational systems? 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.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Education often does deeper work, "transforming people's perceptions over time by gradually shifting the dominant narrative and … bringing us to new answers." " An example is a campaign sponsored by the Women Empowerment Program at the Hariri Foundation in Lebanon. Image 2 : Appalachian Voices.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Education often does deeper work, "transforming people's perceptions over time by gradually shifting the dominant narrative and … bringing us to new answers." " An example is a campaign sponsored by the Women Empowerment Program at the Hariri Foundation in Lebanon. Image 2 : Appalachian Voices.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 2, 2013

That said, in 2012 I had the opportunity to travel to Africa and Asia and from those travel experiences three themes emerged that inspired the selection of this year’s nonprofits: 1) Women’s and girls empowerment; 2) Conservation of wildlife and wild lands; and 3) Access to medical care. Vital Voices :: @ VitalVoices.

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EveryAction

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

There's a long fight ahead, but for issues that stir you, one simple, positive thing you can do today is give - your time, money, voice, or attention - because so many organizations need your urgent support. The last few days have been equal parts terrifying, challenging, and complicated. Donate | Volunteer | Advocate | Twitter | Facebook.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JULY 12, 2022

The COVID-19 health emergency and the ensuing global crises only continue to exacerbate these inequities and drive colossal disruptions in the provision of education across the world — highlighting massive challenges that serve as wake-up calls for the social sector and catalysts for transformational change.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 29, 2009

Off the Mat, Into the World is an educational, experiential and motivational process for people interested in conscious activism and service. It got the seeds planted in my head that this is an altruistic community, it's an educated community. It's really an educational facility, but they're never again allowed to work.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 29, 2006

I got involved in some of the anti-globalization work at that time and my group, Art and Revolution, was doing a lot of education and outreach through dance and giant puppets and theater and doing a lot of tours to mobilize people to come to Seattle. So we're bringing a lot of elements together, the innerpersonal the activist.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 2, 2008

To me, that sort of sums up something very special about the way in which we try to make these resources accessible to women-led initiatives that are often some of the most creative that we are seeing on issues ranging from the environment, to health, to education, to building peace and sustainable communities around the world.

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