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Trainer’s Notebook: #Tech2Empower Peru

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Greetings from Cusco, Peru! I am honored to be working with Wake International on their Tech2Empower Program in Cusco, Peru. This was a very empowering icebreaker – and a great way to get to know a little bit more about the people I will spending the next week with on a service project here in Cusco, Peru.

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Video Marketing on Social Media: Best Practices & Inspiration for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Most people on social don’t watch a video until the end. They were able to get a video up that received way more shares, views and engagement than their average videos due to it being very relevant to what people were talking about on social as Hurricane Harvey hit. Save the Best for First. Get their attention with a “hook” (i.e.

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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. Training in breeding is part of the program.

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Conversations on Hispanic Heritage Month

Media Cause

It gives people who are open-minded the chance to learn and experience new things. My mom was born and raised in the Dominican Republic, and my dad was born and raised in Peru. Growing up, I visited Peru a couple of times, and in college, I did an exchange program there and stayed with my grandparents for a whole semester.

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11 Holiday Gift Programs That Benefit Nonprofits and Make the World A Better Place :: 2011 Edition

Nonprofit Tech for Good

As a group or as an individual, CARE Packages can help send girls in Afghanistan to school for a year, or help expectant mothers in Peru safely deliver. CARE Packages: CARE has a very unique holiday gift program that allows you to compile care packages to send to women entrepreneurs and girls worldwide. Although Concern is based in the U.K.,

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Research Friday: The Importance of Strong and Weak Ties In Leadership Development

ASU Lodestar Center

for Vive Peru. A social network is defined as "an organized set of people that consists of two kinds of elements: human beings and the connections between them," (Christakis, pg. The connection between two people within a social network is referred to as a tie. posted by Annalise Parady , Director of Development. As part of a.

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The Non-Profit That's Using Technology to Put Itself Out of Business | WIRED

AFP Blog

But after 70 years of giving people fish and teaching them how to fish, the organization is now connecting farmers with computer technology so they can sell the fish, too. Under a Heifer pilot program in Peru, farmers are using things like Excel, Photoshop, and Facebook to sell goods online and off."

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