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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. Some people associate the empowerment of women and girls primarily with challenges faced in communities where poverty and lack of access to education determine one’s level of empowerment.

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Bringing Millions of Books to Billions of People: Making the Book Truly Accessible

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Literacy and access to knowledge underpins just about every social good, from education, to economic development, to health, to women’s empowerment, democracy and respect for human rights. However, as a technology, printed books come with serious challenges for some communities (like blind people) that technology can unlock.

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Earth Day ‘22: Salesforce.org Customers Tackle Climate Challenges by Land, Air & Sea

Saleforce Nonprofit

ValleyCAN primarily focuses on vehicle repair and replacement in the San Joaquin Valley, but recognizes that many of the people attending their events also qualify for other incentive programs as well. Mission: Empowerment of children and youth and mobilize for and enable the restoration of 1 trillion new trees worldwide.

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An Evolution of Evaluation in Grantmaking With a Participatory Lens

sgEngage

We offer some practical tips, some examples of funders doing this work, and some resources. All too frequently, the grantmaker alone is determining, leading, and benefiting from MEL processes with no input or collaboration from the people, organizations or community impacted. But is this the right question?

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Thank You, Gerardo!

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

As we are getting ready to welcome a new VP of Engineering, I’d like to acknowledge and thank Gerardo for his many contributions and their lasting impact on the lives of the people we serve. He oversaw the development of numerous products and services that allow us to drive social empowerment through technology across all our programs.

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What I Learned About Online Donor Engagement from Fundraisers in Brasil

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Some points and examples we shared in response to questions: Fundraisers need to be experts in transmedia storytelling techniques and exploring new possibilities for sharing stories. I gave the example of charity:water that tells the story about how clean drinking water can change people’s lives in development country.

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Guest Post: Stories of Volunteer Managers, Technology, and the Pandemic

Twenty Hats

It’s no secret that this was a bumpy transition for many of us, exacerbated by the stress and grief of a global pandemic. In other instances, education efforts were focused more on the people they serve than on their volunteers. But among the storm clouds, there were some silver linings. The [public] transit didn’t go there.”.