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5 Organizations To Support On World Refugee Day

Everyaction

In June of 2018, this mandate feels more pressing than ever, as thousands of families seeking asylum are torn apart and children are held in cages at the U.S. Their model of empowerment amplifies the voices of refugee communities, allowing them to act as their own champions. border, all during the ongoing Syrian refugee crisis.

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Using Video for Women's Empowerment in Rural India

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In looking at some of the project examples , I found several that focus on women's empowerment and rights in India. Since all of the trainees were married as children, they decided to put together a half-hour video magazine about why child marriage must stop, to show on wide-screen projectors in their surrounding villages.

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What are advantages to collaboration between nonprofit and for-profit organizations?

ASU Lodestar Center

It is estimated that 15 percent of children do not have any shoes to put on their feet, so this is indeed a necessity to children worldwide. Pact’s involvement with Coca-Cola funded several million dollars for female economic empowerment in Southeast Asia.

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A Webinar: Measuring the Networked Nonprofit

Care2

She has over 15 years of experience as a community organizer and community builder in the United States and South Asia. She specializes in the areas of community engagement, deliberation and empowerment. She lives in Berkeley with her husband and is a mother of two preschool-age children. Ashley has a M.A.

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6 Examples of Nonprofits Working with For-Profits for a Greater Good

NonProfit Hub

Make-A-Wish grants ill children once-in-a-lifetime opportunities that come in all shapes and sizes (from meeting famous athletes to becoming Batman for a day ). Helping some of the world’s most impoverished children in Liberia is a complex problem, but ChildFund International receives help from an important partner back in the U.S.:

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

Have Fun - Do Good

So women cook, clean and take care of their children, and these are all uncompensated activities. 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.

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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.