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Building Community: Who / How / Why

Museum 2.0

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. Finally, we define our community by affinity.

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Funding & Grant Resources For Women’s Empowerment Organizations

Bloomerang

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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2021 Funding & Grant Resources For Women’s Empowerment Organizations

Kindful

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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Meditations on Relevance, Part 3: Who Decides What's Relevant?

Museum 2.0

Emily started by honing in on local teens' assets: creativity, activist energy, desire to make a difference, desire to be heard, free time in the afternoon. She surveyed existing local programs. The most successful programs fostered youth empowerment and community leadership in various content areas: agriculture, technology, healing.

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Nurturing Inner City Entrepreneurs: Jose Corona of Inner City Advisors

Have Fun - Do Good

." -- Jose Corona, Inner City Advisors Jose Corona is the Executive Director of Inner City Advisors , a nonprofit that helps build sustainable and responsible inner city businesses that create quality jobs, reinvest in the community, and contribute to the local economy. Are you hiring locally? Are you using local suppliers?

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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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Our EveryAction Hero: Middle East Children's Alliance

The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

The Middle East Children’s Alliance (MECA) works to protect the rights and improve the lives of children in the Middle East through aid, empowerment and education. We’re working with local grassroots community organizations to provide education programs, sports programs, medical aid, and winter relief.