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How can nonprofits and funders create mutually agreeable performance measures?

ASU Lodestar Center

Kellogg Foundation , PM is no longer about proving something works, but about generating information to better understand how and why programs work. No methods or measures are perfect , but by understanding the inherent flaws, it encourages consideration of alternate perspectives, insights, and ways to improve PM. According to the W.K.

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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. The women I work with every day are ready.

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Domestic Violence Awareness Month: 5 Extraordinary Organizations

Tech Soup

Empowerment, Shelter, and Support. For Families Free of Violence in Contra Costa County, California is "a catalyst for breaking the multi-generational cycle of violence, promoting safe and strong relationships, and rebuilding lives." Image 1: Alternatives to Violence. Brighter Tomorrows, Inc.: For DVAM, STAND!

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Creating Markets for Fair Trade Gifts: An Interview with Priya Haji of World of Good

Have Fun - Do Good

Holly has now been out meeting with the International Labor Organization and thinking about different ways that you really help create empowerment for women who work in informal markets. Like many communities in the United States, the primary solution that was being applied was a criminal justice one.

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[VIDEO] You’ve Been Let Go From Your Nonprofit Job – Now What?

Bloomerang

And so I want to acknowledge that, but to the extent that you can put yourself in that position and have that kind of empowerment, I find it extremely confidence boosting and brings me from a stronger place. And I always, before I go into it, kind of have a bare minimum.

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Announcing… 31 New Favorite Nonprofits for 2013!

Nonprofit Tech for Good

That said, in 2012 I had the opportunity to travel to Africa and Asia and from those travel experiences three themes emerged that inspired the selection of this year’s nonprofits: 1) Women’s and girls empowerment; 2) Conservation of wildlife and wild lands; and 3) Access to medical care. Wildlife SOS :: @ WildlifeSOS.

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Alli Chagi-Starr, Art in Action/Ella Baker Center, Podcast Interview Transcription

Have Fun - Do Good

Is it about creating forests, cultivating forest lands for future generations? So we're bringing a lot of elements together, the innerpersonal the activist. What are you passionate about doing? Is it children and literature? Is it about toxins in West Oakland? Is it about, everyone deserves clean water?

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