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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

Microsoft will match individual donations through Give for Youth, through October 1st and up to $100,000. 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. ” Their solution is Microsoft YouthSpark.

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Which Crowdfunding Platform Is Best for Your Organization?

Tech Soup

Project creators offer rewards and incentives for donations to thank backers for their support. It is open to creators from all backgrounds – from charities to video game developers to artists. Depending on what you donate, you'll receive notes, photos, or a calendar from the students. Special Plan for Nonprofits: No.

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Which Crowdfunding Platform Is Best for Your Organization?

Tech Soup

Project creators offer rewards and incentives for donations to thank backers for their support. It is open to creators from all backgrounds – from charities to video game developers to artists. Depending on what you donate, you'll receive notes, photos, or a calendar from the students. Special Plan for Nonprofits: No.

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Arts Activist Naomi Natale and The One Million Bones Project

Have Fun - Do Good

." - Naomi Natale, One Million Bones Naomi Natale is the founding artist behind One Million Bones , a collaborative art installation designed to recognize the millions of victims and survivors who have been killed or displaced by ongoing genocides and mass atrocities in Sudan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Burma. Tweet Share.

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Using Photography to Change the World: An Interview with Paola Gianturco

Have Fun - Do Good

She is donating 100 percent of the royalties from the book to the Global Fund for Women. PG: I think that the one that comes to mind first is a wonderful picture of women in Kenya who are growing corn. BB: What advice do you have for artists who want to use their art for social change?

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Solutionary Women: Alli Chagi-Starr, Ilyse Hogue, Melinda Kramer and Reem Rahim

Have Fun - Do Good

Does anyone in the room identify as an artist, by any chance? I just want to dispel the myth that we are not activists and that we are not artists. I worked in East Africa with an organization called Care Kenya, working with women around sustainable agriculture issues. First of all, who identifies with the word "activism"?

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