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How Text Messaging Has Revolutionized Giving

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Most of our board placements love nothing better than joining a board where they can be a voice of change. Perhaps that voice in 2017 will be to help your nonprofit adopt text messaging as a new way of fundraising. SAWA-Australia is a nonprofit organization aimed at providing Afghanistan women with education and health services.

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Women of Color Resource Center: An Interview with Anisha Desai

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AD: I think it is important to start by saying that the Women of Color Resource Center came out of a lot of political thinking and activism of the late '60s and '70s, when women of color really felt that it was important that their voices be heard in a movement that was largely dominated by men, and also white women and white allies.

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Nonprofit Technology News for September 2013

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” Their history of smartwatches is also good. The UK NPTech website, Charity Digital News reports that the Royal London Society for the Blind and IBM are creating a new voice controlled screen reading application called the Chatty Web. Health tracker. Security device. Apparently it all started in 2001 with the IBM Watchpad.

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Must Hear Speech from Barack Obama and the Power of Podcasting

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There is something powerful about hearing Barack Obama's voice or the children's voices from the UNICEF podcasts or Nelson Mandela's voice from the recent ONE campaign podcast , inside your head. You feel close to them and their cause. I asked myself how I would be feeling if it were me struggling to learn how to walk again?

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The Global Fund for Women: An Interview with Kavita Ramdas

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A truly remarkably story of very every day mothers and daughters in Liberia who were just so sick of the civil war between Charles Taylor, and then the rebels in Liberia, being funded with Sierra Leone diamonds essentially, that they mobilized an entire community of women around peace. It's something worth thinking about.

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