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5 Things Nonprofits Can Learn from the Late, Great David Carr

Tech Soup

In the documentary, Carr scolds Vice co-founder Shane Smith for impugning the Times ' news judgment: "Before you ever went to Liberia," Carr said, "we've had reporters reporting on genocide after genocide. " Carr also was teaching a journalism class at Boston University at the time of his death.

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President's Update: Summer 2008

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

You can visit our Colombia Project Page to read more about this work. Our work in Liberia, funded by the State Department in support of the Truth Commission (TRC) continues. Benetech's Human Rights Program Manager, Kristen Cibelli, has just relocated to Liberia for at least six months.

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Sheroes You Should Know: Inspiring Stories for #WomensHistoryMonth

EveryAction

To this day, it is still considered one of the finest works in the history of Japanese literature. Lucila Godoy y Alcayaga (under her literary pseudonym Gabriela Mistral) was the first Latin American woman to win a Nobel Prize for literature for her poetic work, Sonnets of Death. Gabriela Mistral. Do you love ladies in literature?

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The Global Fund for Women: An Interview with Kavita Ramdas

Have Fun - Do Good

It works in over 160 countries around the world. KR: The Global Fund for Women has an extraordinary commitment to keeping our doors open so that as many organizations working to advance women's human rights internationally can really gain access to resources that they so desperately need.

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