Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2014

Janah's Samasource connects very low income women and youth in Africa and Asia with "microwork" over the Internet so they can escape poverty with contracts from Microsoft, Getty Images, Google, Tripadvisor, and others. Empathy in Entrepreneurship. She recently launched SamaUSA to replicate the program in the states.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 15, 2017

The blurring lines between government, nonprofit and for-profit sectors have led to innovative vehicles to fund interventions that address society’s most intractable problems. They are an evolution of the traditional contract partnerships between nonprofits and government. As Clara Miller (2015), president of the H. and Lombard, A.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 9, 2007

He would like to see the disability community speak with one voice on these issues. When the entities involved are public entities like governments or groups with a mandate to serve the entire population (BBC in UK, schools), the standard is higher than for an individual or a tiny business. When teacher is gone, it's Harry Potter.

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NTEN

JULY 23, 2009

VozMob: Mobile Voices/Voces Moviles. Mobile Voices offers an open-source multi-media platform optimized for low-cost mobile phones that lets users create, share, and reflect on stories about their lives and communities. There were 14 great teams pitching their Projects at the Conference, but only 3 voted as prize winners.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 9, 2007

What surprised me the most (you all probably already knew this), is that the Sudanese government officials who were close to Osama bin Laden (who lived there from 1991-1996) are cooperating with the American counterterrorism authorities, so the United States doesn't want to rock the counterterrorism information boat by upsetting them about Darfur.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

I think that in an age where what we're facing often seems very vast and faceless - huge institutions, corporations, or undemocratic governments - I think that the real answers don't so much lie in, they can, but not always, big ticket solutions. In terms of my own life, as I write in Loyal to the Sky , I grew up in apartheid South Africa.

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EveryAction

MARCH 16, 2017

Invest in organizations like Women Made Gallery , American Women Artists , the Professional Organization for Women in the Arts , WGAW , and the National Museum of Women in the Arts which help give a voice and a future to female artists worldwide. Anika Rahman is a Bangladeshi-American lawyer and prominent voice in the ecofeminism movement.

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Everyaction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

We gather more than 800 board members, chief executives, staff, and nonprofit professionals for two days to discuss the newest thinking and best practices in nonprofit governance. New voices energizing conversations. South Africa / $250. South Africa. 13th Annual Nonprofit Governance Symposium. 11/28/2016.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

For a lot of reasons, UNGA is especially important this year: It’s the first in-person assembly since the outbreak of COVID-19 , which makes it the first true in-person gathering from a multi sector perspective, with heads of government, heads of business and heads of civil society. It’s been said from a true global perspective.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 3, 2006

At the time, the Federal government had just signed the welfare deform legislation, pushing millions of welfare recipients from welfare to work. The industry -- the federal government, and the state government specifically exclude domestic workers as classes of workers to be protected by labor rights legislation.

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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. I am working with a foundation right now trying to plan out our Africa initiative for the remainder of the year.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 25, 2011

First, it is very easy for governments to block access and it can happen without warning. Normally, voice communication over the Internet is no more secure than unprotected email and instant messaging. There are two particularly useful guides (both available in other languages including Arabic).

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 11, 2011

One of the worst humanitarian crises continues to escalate in the Horn of Africa, where famine, war and drought are threatening 13M+ people. And now more than ever, people are reaching out to their members of congress through online channels to voice their concerns about some of these very issues.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

We have Sub-Saharan Africa, Europe. So this is really important in areas that, so, for example, in Latin America, in certain parts of Asia, in Sub-Saharan Africa, that the internet is not as fast. And the last thing which is super important as how can I include the voices? They can send you a voice note. So this is.

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Qgiv

AUGUST 10, 2021

For the past 26 years, she has contributed organizational and individual value as a thought leader, manager, author, mentor, coach and consultant throughout the United States, and in selected projects in Africa and Central America. If your nonprofit is funded that way, what would you do if your largest funder said “no more?”

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

So, for example, when we were working on a community policing project, I used to work in Minnesota, and about 15 years ago, we had another wave of immigrants, refugees that came from Southeast Asia and different countries from Africa. And there was a lot of cultural misunderstandings, something very basic. So those are my slides.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 18, 2010

The importance of supporting human rights in the DRC was underscored this month when it was reported that Floribert Chebeya, executive director of one of the DRC’s largest human rights organizations, Voice of the Voiceless (VSV), was found dead on the outskirts of Kinshasa.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 19, 2007

A month ago I listened to Christine Karumba, the Country Director for Women for Women International in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, tell Honorata's story on the Voices on Genocide Prevention podcast. And one of their roles is to bring their voice." Sissel of the Sissel Byington Photography blog sponsors a women each year.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 30, 2007

A blog was really perfect for me, because first of all, it was a very casual voice -- it's not very formal. I want to thank Britt for putting the panel together and just for her work in inspiring women leaders, and getting our voices out there, and recognizing our work - and also to the organizers. We are a 3.5

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