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Shouldn’t the Word Phone Be Removed from Mobile? The Use of the Mobile by Nonprofits for Development

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This was originally posted on the GuideStar International blog. The International Telecommunications Union (ITU). opportunities, improve social empowerment, reduce the need to undertake. job bringing to our attention some of ways in which mobiles are being. Can you remember when a huge mobile. a device only seen on TV!

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Break the Bias: Changing the Game for Girls & Women

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The COVID-19 pandemic is disproportionately affecting women and girls around the world, which threatens the gains made in the past decades in advancing women’s economic empowerment, health, rights, and safety. From the elite to the grassroots, gaps between women and men, girls and boys are set to widen.

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Empowering Refugees: Interview with Kjerstin Erickson of FORGE

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Erickson founded FORGE (Facilitating Opportunities for Refugee Growth and Empowerment) in 2003 when she was a 20 year-old junior studying public policy at Stanford University. We bring communities together to identify their top problems, needs, and priorities, and solve them internally. It had been bombed.

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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. ECPAT International :: @ ECPAT.

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

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I realized I had a platform where, for whatever reason, people would pay attention to me. It could be the environment, it could be educational issues, political issues, international, national. Now that we're back, we're onto the next project which is the Uganda Seva Challenge where we will be building a birthing center.