Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 23, 2007

Skoll and Schwab have the two leading social entrepreneurship networks for senior practitioners, and it's great to see them working together to advance the movement. She noted that Yunus worked for twenty years before anyone in the West noticed! Her inspiration for this work included Gandhi, who of course was all about self-reliance!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2010

The program works in partnership with states across the country. "Our One theme he touched on that resonated throughout the day is how Microsoft is working with networks and partners to leverage it’s financial, technical, and social change commitment. "Our philanthropy has to ignite action. We need leverage points."

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JUNE 14, 2006

I was thrilled when Catherine Conover, the Assistant Managing Editor & Communications Coordinator for New Moon magazine, contacted me and suggested that Nancy Gruver, the founder of New Moon, would be a great Solutionary Woman to interview. Describe the work that Dads and Daughters does.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2012

Over the last year, the work of Traveling Postcards keeps crossing my path, so I asked its founder, Caroline Lovell, to share with us: How Traveling Postcards works The path that brought her to this work Her favorite Traveling Postcards success story How we can get involved with Traveling Postcards I've posted her answers below.

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JUNE 19, 2009

Erickson founded FORGE (Facilitating Opportunities for Refugee Growth and Empowerment) in 2003 when she was a 20 year-old junior studying public policy at Stanford University. She has been named a Haas Public Service Fellow at Stanford, a Top 10 College Woman by Glamour Magazine , and a Person You Should Know by CNN.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

If you do go the policy or guidelines route, remember to focus on empowerment rather than rigid restrictions. The goal is to get people social, spreading the word about the great work your organization does and what a great place it is to work.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2010

Our October 14th conversation began with Jensine explaining how World Pulse works. I'm a complete magazine and media addict. From there, I ended up going to the Burma-Thai border and working with women refugees who had fled the ethnic cleansing under the Burmese dictatorship. Our first magazine was published in 2004.

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DECEMBER 28, 2006

Melinda Kramer: Women's Global Green Action Network is an international organization that is linking and empowering women working in environmental sustainability around the world. We also take part in trainings that are relevant to most of their work. We do it in a number of ways.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Interruption "works to challenge the dominant narrative or jar the normal way of seeing things. Education often does deeper work, "transforming people's perceptions over time by gradually shifting the dominant narrative and … bringing us to new answers." Interruption. Please visit the site to view this video).

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FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Interruption "works to challenge the dominant narrative or jar the normal way of seeing things. Education often does deeper work, "transforming people's perceptions over time by gradually shifting the dominant narrative and … bringing us to new answers." Interruption. Please visit the site to view this video).

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NOVEMBER 28, 2007

And, at a time when the international women's movement is facing challenges, it would be great to have a reminder that good news is going on, that good work is being done, that progress is happening. Britt Bravo: In so many of the groups you profiled, the women were using the arts for education, empowerment, or healing.

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APRIL 29, 2009

Seane has been featured in commercials and has appeared on the cover of Yoga Journal , Fit Yoga , and many other magazines. SC: I'd started working with an organization called YouthAIDS which provides services and products to children worldwide who are affected by the HIV/AIDS crisis.

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