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Women’s History Month: 11 Nonprofits That Are Advocating For Female Empowerment

Kindful

Mission: WomenRising’s mission is to assist women and their families to achieve self-sufficiency and live safe, productive, and fulfilling lives, through social services, economic development, and advocacy services. Impacting: Social services. Impacting: Empowerment through music education. Headquarters in: Jersey City, NJ.

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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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The Benefits of Community-Centric Fundraising

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While these goals are important, they can sometimes overshadow the broader mission of community empowerment and feel disconnected from the people they’re trying to help. Rather than focus on the numbers of fundraising, CCF emphasizes an approach that integrates social equity, transparency, and mutual support into each step of fundraising.

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Celebrate International Women’s Day 2021

Forum One

As we highlight our staff who are raising their hands high to reinforce and show solidarity on social media today, we also wanted to highlight our clients doing important work moving the needle forward for women’s equality and empowerment. Amplifying the voices of female peacemakers. As one of the largest foundations in the U.S.,

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How to Overcome a Victim Mindset in Order to Better Serve Your Nonprofit and Your Community

Bloomerang

If you feel like you’re in the survivor mindset, I want to be a voice of encouragement for you. You now walk around with a sense of empowerment, knowing that you can solve problems that come up in your personal and professional worlds. . In fact, so much is in your power. It’s OK if you’re still having to fight for things.

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10 Questions …. Kate Behncken, global head, Microsoft Philanthropies

The NonProfit Times

Kate Behncken is corporate vice president, global head of Microsoft Philanthropies, a global, multi-disciplinary team that brings together corporate social responsibility, sales and engineering functions. This was a pivotal moment in my career. These experiences really lit the spark for me. How are corporate goals aligned with philanthropy?

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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.

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