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Changing lives through financial empowerment

ASU Lodestar Center

For the past six months I have worked with YWCA Maricopa County , expanding its Own It Financial Education program , which provides low-income women and families a free education teaching them how to become financially stable and independent. integrate financial literacy into our school systems, or at least make. Like this article?

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Thank You, Gerardo!

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

He oversaw the development of numerous products and services that allow us to drive social empowerment through technology across all our programs. He also championed an open source ethos so that our work can be broadly shared (you can view all our open source projects on GitHub ).

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Leveraging data to better serve under-resourced communities 

Candid

We also found nearly 20% of respondents aged 45-64 did not have checking accounts, revealing that our older clients needed more financial literacy programming to avoid slipping into poverty. In November 2023, we received a grant from the Capital One Foundation to support our housing and financial empowerment programming.

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On the Future of Braille: Thoughts by Radical Braille Advocates

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Guest Beneblog by Betsy Beaumon, VP and General Manager, Benetech’s Global Literacy Program. With the goal of promoting braille literacy, this landmark meeting brought together braille experts from around the world to Perkins’ campus in Watertown, Massachusetts.

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Does Your Nonprofit Need Some Data Therapy?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

There are organizations and individuals who work as intermediaries on connecting the dots between data experts and the people, but what about a network? If you know of or have examples of data literacy curriculum for nonprofits or data empowerment for community organization, let me know in the comments.

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Cause Camp 2021 Speaker Line-Up

NonProfit Hub

She has spent almost thirty years working in the nonprofit world helping organizations communicate more effectively internally and externally. Maryanne Dersch specializes in helping nonprofit leaders increase their influence and be the change agents they have always wanted to be without feeling rejected, ineffective, or pushy.

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How Cross-Sector Collaboration is Helping Fight Youth Unemployment in Boston

Connection Cafe

This could mean getting aid after a disaster to those that need it by working directly with a local community foundation or addressing a significant need in your community. As partnership openings arise, you’ll be set up to respond quickly if those relationships already exist.

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