ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 17, 2014

This blog post is second in a two part series on Foundation Supported Social Enterprises. The Nick Simons Foundation did not have a large staff. The foundation opened in 2005 when Nick Simons, a great lover and visitor of Nepal died. Click here to learn more Risk: Funding innovation requires foundations to take a risk.

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ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 17, 2014

This blog post is second in a two part series on Foundation Supported Social Enterprises. The Nick Simons Foundation did not have a large staff. The foundation opened in 2005 when Nick Simons, a great lover and visitor of Nepal died. Risk: Funding innovation requires foundations to take a risk.

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Foundation Nepal Program Support 40

Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 15, 2008

So often, government control, or just lack of access to information and media, prevents people from really being able to be educated and informed about serious issues that are going on around them. There is also a really practical level of source access. Many of our trainees and journalists in Nepal do have children.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

In June 2021 Giving USA Foundation and partnership with the Lilly Indiana Family School of Philanthropy released their annual Giving USA report. So A, corporations, B foundations, or C individuals. And foundations this 19% includes both, you know, national foundations and family foundations.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

It's been a foundation to begin with, and to return to. For me, meditation is a practice of sitting down for half an hour every morning, or whatever the case is, and practicing awareness. What that means is that sometimes I start seeing things that I wasn't aware of before in myself, like my own motivations for things.

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Interview South Africa Iowa India 40

Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

Any woman who is just coming on from Kashmir has access to some kind of connectivity to either an Internet cafe, or a cell phone, or a computer at her work. It's just accessible. I love that it's accessible to anyone. They're coming from Nepal, the Philippines, and Bolivia. She can speak out. It's better then anything.

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Voice Global Saudi Arabia Journal 69

Global Giving

MARCH 26, 2018

My parents, from a young age, taught me the power and importance of inclusivity, pluralism, and accessibility. The global need for accessible technology. Because of the nature of the work, these organizations are almost never in offices with access to desktop computers and traditional software.

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