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Bridging the Opportunity Divide – Empowering Youth to Imagine and Realize their Futures

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The initiative brings together an array of existing, new and enhanced global programs and partnerships that connect young people with better education, employment and entrepreneurship opportunities. Peter has extensive international experience in Latin America and Africa and discussed the problems and solutions he sees from the ground.

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Blog for Choice Day 2009

Connection Cafe

Today is Blog for Choice Day 2009 , an event organized by NARAL Pro-Choice America. This kind of constituent empowerment effort as an organizing strategy is smart. Individual bloggers sign up and commit to devote at least one blog post on January 22 to the topic of choice. And that I'm able to help them do it!

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SAP Gives Back

Tech Soup

In 2010, SAP invested almost US$17 million in universities and nonprofits worldwide, an increase from US$10 million in 2009. Although one million people may seem like an enormous number, consider this: on October 31, 2011, the global population reached 7 billion. Making Social Investments.

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Raising the Floor of the Platform Economy: Co-ops, Unions, and the Struggle to Transform Technology

Non Profit Quarterly

For instance, Uber has transformed the taxi industry in the decade following its inception in 2009,and now dominates 69 percent of the ride-sharing market. Similarly, there has been a global rise of worker-managed platform cooperatives in response to the rise of platform companies. million on political lobbying, and another $1.8

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Off the Mat, Into the World: An Interview with Seane Corn

Have Fun - Do Good

On March 5, 2009 I interviewed yoga teacher and co-Founder of Off the Mat, Into the World, Seane Corn , for the Big Vision Podcast shortly after she returned from a trip to Cambodia with participants from Off the Mat, Into the World's Seva Challenge. --Seane Corn, co-Founder, Off the Mat, Into the World.