Tech Soup

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Our Time (Facebook) is a nonprofit dedicated to youth empowerment through the voting process. ClassTalk was made through Code for America , a nonprofit that connects app developers with civic leaders to solve city problems. The app was a finalist in Microsoft's 2011 Imagine Cup, a student technology competition. Apps Made by Youth.

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Tech Soup

MAY 11, 2015

They're also a useful way for nonprofits to connect with local developers if they're interested in building an app. This project began as a Code for America project in Detroit. Built on Twilio's APIs, the app allows volunteers or group members to sign up to receive messages by texting their name to a local number.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2011

I’ve had a lot of experience with online contests, both as a participant (winner) and working two reflection papers for the Case Foundation ‘s America’s Giving Challenge. NStreet Village : N Street Village is a community of empowerment and recovery for homeless and low-income women in Washington, D.C.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 8, 2013

Bank of America ($222 million cash). In the case of Microsoft, their current mission is youth empowerment. They are looking for a handful of charities like Boys & Girls Clubs of America that can make a big impact. In developing a prospect list of potential corporate donors start locally. Chevron ($262 million cash).

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Bloomerang

APRIL 7, 2022

Activities can be local, regional, or, in some instances, statewide. By funding these nonprofits in their nascent stages, they help them to test their programs and initiatives, and scale them for maximum impact in their local communities. They fund organizations and programs in economic security, freedom from violence, and health.

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Kindful

MARCH 5, 2021

Activities can be local, regional, or, in some instances, statewide. By funding these nonprofits in their nascent stages, they help them to test their programs and initiatives, and scale them for maximum impact in their local communities. They fund organizations and programs in economic security, freedom from violence, and health.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2010

Elevate America a workforce development program, that provides one million vouchers for Microsoft e-learning courses and select certification exams at no cost to recipients. Take for example deploying 200 sensors throughout the Brazilian rainforest to measure and visualize the effects of climate change.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 29, 2015

We are unapologetic about focusing local. Focusing local helps us define our community by identity. We have partnered with the county-wide community assessment project to learn more about the demographics, interests, and needs of local residents. Let’s start with empowerment. We bond with people who are like us.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

Her knowledge of the country and the culture made it easier to localize the curriculum. However, to localize it, Stephanie incorporated Pakistani imagery, including a photo of Arfa Karim, the youngest female Microsoft ‘expert’ in Pakistan, to represent fly. We even localized and mixed up our energizers and icebreakers.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 15, 2010

I used that tactic locally 2 move others to act. realize_ink : Q3: empowerment & ownership. America’s Giving Challenge = push vs. Kiva peer-to-peer microfinance = pull. [link] was abt ppl, not an org. rootwork : Great repository of online campaigns # 4change can be found at @DigiActive – lots to analyze: [link].

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Cloud 4 Good

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

As an initiative of Tufts University’s Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, New Entry works locally, regionally, and nationwide to strengthen food systems by supporting new farmers. Success Story: Creating Equity in Education With Teach For America + Salesforce Marketing Cloud. Francis College + Salesforce Marketing Cloud.

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Media Cause

JUNE 16, 2022

Black Youth Project — BYP has various local chapters. National Urban League —The National Urban League is a historic civil rights organization dedicated to economic empowerment in order to elevate the standard of living in historically underserved urban communities. Check your local events on Google. Find yours here.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 28, 2006

So many of these women are local leaders, and Women's Global Green Action Network is attempting to provide a space for women to step into roles of being global advocates, and to really have a more prevalent platform for the messages and the work that they are doing. We also take part in trainings that are relevant to most of their work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2011

While I faced a difficult decision culling winners from the forty focused initiatives described in the entries, I selected the following based on their innovative and courageous approaches to a variety of social issues, from new types of housing for the underserved, to animal welfare, to women’s empowerment. We’re the Safe America Foundation.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 2, 2007

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. We are not thinking about this alone. It is a community where there are almost 75 percent HIV positive rates.

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Non Profit Quarterly

MARCH 2, 2022

For example, local CWA 7777 president Duncan Harrington opened his office in 2004 to immigrant taxi drivers so that they could talk about creating a different kind of business that is less exploitative. Connections between labor unions and industries especially impacted by the platform economy have helped cooperatives come into being.

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EveryAction

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

That’s why we empower local leaders to build a strong movement for equality that secures critical grassroots wins at every level. The American Immigration Council, established in 1987, works to strengthen America by honoring our immigrant history and shaping how America thinks about and acts towards immigrants and immigration.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 2, 2013

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. MomsRising :: @ MomsRising.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 29, 2009

The idea is now that we're getting stronger and more flexible, more conscious, more patient, and more aware, we need to take those very qualities that we're learning in the yoga room, and begin to truly apply them in our families, in our local community, and into our global family as well. I knew that the work that I was doing was effective.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 2, 2008

I think what makes us unique is that we are really investing in women's leadership and women's creativity in developing local solutions to some of the world's most challenging problems. It hasn't happened in Latin America's history. It works in over 160 countries around the world. It is not that we aren't seeing the wins.

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