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Bridging the Opportunity Divide – Empowering Youth to Imagine and Realize their Futures

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Mary Mwende told us about her journey from Mombasa, Kenya, to being one of ten girls chosen for the Global Give Back Circle , a mentoring and empowerment program. Peter has extensive international experience in Latin America and Africa and discussed the problems and solutions he sees from the ground.

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Traveling Postcards: Interview with Founder, Caroline Lovell

Have Fun - Do Good

You do not need to be an “artist” to make a postcard, but each participant is surprised and delighted by their creativity and to see that their cards contain colors, words and images that reflect their strongest selves. Yet, I wanted to be that artist and still do. What is your favorite Traveling Postcards success story?

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Building Community: Who / How / Why

Museum 2.0

For example, in Santa Cruz there is a huge community of creative people who identify as artists in non-traditional media. That’s why we partner with fire sculptors, knitters, graffiti artists, and bonsai growers. They are artists whose experience deserves a home in our institution alongside painters, photographers, and sculptors.

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Funding & Grant Resources For Women’s Empowerment Organizations

Bloomerang

Their unique model of local fundraising and local giving through their chapters engages thousands of women across North America to give generously in support of their mission. They invest in women across the Americas by funding community initiatives and fostering collaborations to create social change. Areas served: US. Mary’s Pence.

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2021 Funding & Grant Resources For Women’s Empowerment Organizations

Kindful

Their unique model of local fundraising and local giving through their chapters engages thousands of women across North America to give generously in support of their mission. They invest in women across the Americas by funding community initiatives and fostering collaborations to create social change. Areas served: US. Mary’s Pence.

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

Have Fun - Do Good

The mission of World of Good, as a company, is to create the largest distribution system for fair trade, handmade items from artists' and women's cooperatives around the world. I am the CEO and co-founder of World of Good , and also World of Good Development Organization , which is our non-profit sister organization.

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Off the Mat, Into the World: An Interview with Seane Corn

Have Fun - Do Good

The genocide selectively targeted the educated: doctors, lawyers, and scientists, but also artists and poets were all annihilated so as to make room for this zero culture, people with no expression, no personalities, no agendas. They follow the curriculum, and at the end of the seven weeks, they put together their own project.