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Youth community service: Belonging, reciprocity, and agency 

Candid

A report from the Center for Expanding Leadership & Opportunity (CELO) and The Allstate Foundation explores how Gen Z is expanding the definition of “community service” and seeking to maximize impact—for themselves and the communities they serve. reported for “informal helping.”

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12 Early Adopters of the.NGO and.ONG Domains

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Mission: To improve access and quality of education for 4 million children living in underserved communities in India. Mission: To help eradicate extreme poverty through community development projects in urban sanitation, water filtration, health, alternative energy, and economic empowerment. Kijani ● kijani.ngo.

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Using Video for Women's Empowerment in Rural India

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

They partner with a range of NGOs to create an ongoing community video unit to support the NGO's programs by placing a full-time trainer in the NGO for a one-year period. The trainer trains up to ten community members to create videos. At the end of the year, the NGO has the skills and capacity to continue producing community videos.

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How can nonprofits and funders create mutually agreeable performance measures?

ASU Lodestar Center

Participatory processes engage diverse stakeholders in collective thought, action, and decision-making, while increasing the capacity of individuals and communities through skill building and empowerment. Her interests include organizational learning and community cultural development. Actively evaluate PM processes and metrics.

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Women Ingenuity is Powering Solutions for the Digital Divide

Connection Cafe

A host of cultural, economic, social and infrastructural barriers keep women locked out from the empowerment potential of Internet access. Olutosin has created an alternative: a women-only center that allows Nigerian women to connect online safely and freely. Women in our online community tell of solutions, but they also tell of risk.

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Domestic Violence Awareness Month: 5 Extraordinary Organizations

Tech Soup

The organization says its mission is "to support, educate, and empower the multicultural communities of North Texas. Through comprehensive social services and educational programs, we create access to opportunities for survivors of human rights abuses and equip youth with skills to become leaders in their own diverse communities."

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Does the Most Powerful Work Live Onstage or Behind the Scenes?

Museum 2.0

Let's say your organization has a mission to increase X (art, healthy kids, clean water, community cohesiveness, etc.). The more my organization has become focused on community engagement, the more we've balanced being experience producers with being experience co-creators/facilitators. I feel great about this approach.