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Do Capacity Building Programs Help Nonprofits Achieve Better Results?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The Forgotten Roots of Capacity Development in the Movement for Ownership and Empowerment. When we focused our attention on supporting organizations and networks we built an approach that emphasized their ownership and leadership of the process. Our role was to coach, support, mentor where necessary – but never to lead.

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International Women’s Day: Using Technology to Empower Women and Girls

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

But progress in gender parity has been slowed in many places across the world, especially in developing countries. I’ve been committed to working on technology capacity building for organizations serving Women and Girls empowerment. March 8th is International Women’s Day. You can make a donation here.

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Customer Feedback in the Non-Profit Sector: Listening to Low-Income Consumers

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

All this adds up to the why it is even more important to pay attention to Crowdsourcing platforms, social media, and rating sites can serve as useful feedback channels for nonprofits. With a good feedback system in place programs can be held accountable to those they serve.

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And the 2013 Digital Storytelling Challenge Awards Go To.

Tech Soup

First Place Video. Winning the 1 st place award for best video story, may I present “Freedom to dream” by Charity Express/ Dalit Freedom Network. " First Place Photo. Second Place. Third Place. Without further ado. Charity Express will receive: Connect2give suite annual plan. Flickr Pro account.

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Women Ingenuity is Powering Solutions for the Digital Divide

Connection Cafe

World leaders and technology firms should be paying attention to their solutions—and backing them up. A host of cultural, economic, social and infrastructural barriers keep women locked out from the empowerment potential of Internet access. Even if it is for an hour each day, women will access the Web.

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The 45 Social by Social Propositions

Amy Sample Ward

If you give them tools for taking more control of their lives, they will pay you back in attention, support and even hard cash. Empowerment is unconditional. The world is a noisy place. Getting people’s attention means offering them something valuable. People want control. Build it and they may well not come.

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Your Tweet Can Leverage A 10 Cent Donation to Care March 2-5th

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The event attracted a lot of attention because it was an example of integrating a live charity event with Twitter. (See The first Tweet-a-thon took place in September, 2008. I support empowerment of women worldwide with this tweet. for clean drinking water in developing countries. According to Joel Comm , $13,000 was raised.