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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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Leveraging data to better serve under-resourced communities 

Candid

Census suggests that Asian Americans have a median household income of $108,700—significantly higher than the national median of $75,580. In November 2023, we received a grant from the Capital One Foundation to support our housing and financial empowerment programming. For example, aggregated data from the U.S.

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May Cause Awareness: Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month

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If there isn’t a location nearby, you can check out the National Park Service’s AAPI Heritage website to virtually visit and learn about places significant to the AAPI community and their history. You can even visit virtual museums or look up educational resources online. Try AAPI cuisine AAPI cuisine is like no other cultural cuisine.

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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. National Park Trust.

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Struggling to get people to donate online?

Top Nonprofits

Amanda believes in collaboration, empowerment, trust and wicked-good customer service. She has served as the vice president and creative director of a national fundraising firm and chief development officer in arts and higher education. She has loved every minute of it. billion capital campaign.

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Human Rights and the Duty to Protect Sensitive Data

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Consider this: when you visit your doctor about a medical issue in the United States, you can be reasonably confident that it won''t shortly be on the front page of the local newspaper. Co-authored with Enrique Piracés, Benetech VP, Human Rights. That''s why Martus offers end-to-end encryption.

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March Cause Awareness: Women’s History Month

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By 1981, the celebration had spread far and wide, enough that President Jimmy Carter officially made the week of March 8th, 1980 National Women’s History Week. Every year, the National Women’s History Alliance selects a yearly theme to focus on for the month. 100-9 which designated the month of March 1987 as “Women’s History Month.”

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