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Trainer’s Notebook: #Tech2Empower Peru

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Greetings from Cusco, Peru! I am honored to be working with Wake International on their Tech2Empower Program in Cusco, Peru. Our group of advisors includes 20 impressive women from 8 technology companies who are sharing their skills and expertise with local women entrepreneurs help them to scale their businesses.

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VisionLinker Travels to Peru on Humanitarian Mission

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Aaron and his wife recently visited Arequipa, Peru. Providing the girls with a specialized skill will equip them with resources to enable them to support themselves in addition to avoiding poverty. Interested in learning more? Check out [link]. Also, click the link [link] to know more about the children’s home.

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Tech2Empower: The Llama Pack Project

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Last week I was got to work on a week-long service trip in Cusco, Peru as part of Wake: Women’s Alliance for Knowledge Exchange #Tech2empower program where womwn in who work in technology volunteer to share their professional skills and knowledge with women-run business owners. As I learned later, it was to make a connection.

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3 New Year’s Rituals for Nonprofit Professionals to Build Resilience

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Here’s what I learned from looking over my 2018 professional journal: The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: I published “ The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact without Burnout ,” with co-author Aliza Sherman in 2016. I also use this tip from Sree about writing it in email dated 12/31/19 using FutureMe.Org.

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Need Hands-on Help? NetSquared's Free Workshops Are in Your Community

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In Peru, the group explored how Azure can help NGOs and in Tanzania , people learned about the concept of cloud productivity services. In the US, the Chicago and Portland groups visited their local Microsoft stores to learn how to leverage the Office 365 donation. For spring 2017, we're focused on nonprofit cloud services.

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The value of attending Gnomedex: Priceless

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

But what's the value of all these love, dancing, and learning? I learned a lot, I met fabulous people, and it felt great to be part of an awesome community. I especially appreciate Maryam's speaker wrangling skills. The informal learning that takes place in the hallways and around the lunch table and bar was amazing!

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Empowering Women Citizen Journalists: An Interview with Cristi Hegranes

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When women have access to specific skills, training, and education, all of a sudden their survival and livelihood statistics shoot way up, not only their own, but entire communities. It was written in very scribbled Nepali, her literacy skills were incredibly rudimentary, but what she ended up writing was a piece of journalism.