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Youth community service: Belonging, reciprocity, and agency 

Candid

To illustrate, Cilente Skendall shared that one activity not considered “service” by most respondents was “alternative breaks”—short trips designed to provide students with “service immersion experiences.”

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Using Video for Women's Empowerment in Rural India

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In looking at some of the project examples , I found several that focus on women's empowerment and rights in India. They organizations provide programs offer justice against violence and alternative sources of livelihood. At the end of the year, the NGO has the skills and capacity to continue producing community videos.

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12 Early Adopters of the.NGO and.ONG Domains

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Mission: To help eradicate extreme poverty through community development projects in urban sanitation, water filtration, health, alternative energy, and economic empowerment. Grassroots Pakistan ● grassrootspakistan.ngo. Kijani ● kijani.ngo. Mission: To restore Kenyan highland forests and elevate the discussion on sustainability.

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Report: Insights from the Google AI Impact Challenge

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

One valuable section of the report is a catalog of common project designs across different sub-areas of the social change sector, including: Crisis Response, Economic Empowerment, Education, Environment, Equality and Inclusion, Health, and Public Sector. Organizations want to prioritize responsibility but don’t know how.

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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. Directly involve stakeholders in developing PM. Use PM as one piece of information along with other perspectives.

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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.

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Research Friday: Human Capital Performance Bonds. What are they? How do they work?

ASU Lodestar Center

an intensive, year-long empowerment and skills-based training for the returning men, coupled with a marketing strategy of recruiting business customers to hire graduates of the program. Alternately, performance pool continues operating, funded by cash returns re-investment by government. He established Twin Cities Rise! ,