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How Mentorship Can Break Down Racial Divides

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It was updated for National Mentoring Month in January 2023. I had always been an informal mentor, but when I moved to Florida, I joined Big Brothers Big Sisters as a volunteer, a ‘Big Sister’. We’ve seen how social justice and unrest have pulled our nation apart. *This post was originally published on February 11th, 2021.

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On the Future of Braille: Thoughts by Radical Braille Advocates

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Betsy Beaumon I recently had the honor to speak at the first-ever Braille Summit , hosted on June 19-21, 2013 by the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (NLS) and Perkins School for the Blind. and critical for the inclusion and empowerment of people in developing countries.

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Get Help in Telling the Story of Your Nonprofit's Impact

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Naples, Florida: #Storymakers 2017: Creating Images and Video with Adobe Spark. Port Charlotte, Florida: How to Tell Your Nonprofit Story with Spark and TechSoup's StoryMakers 2017. Orlando, Florida: Microsoft Gives Back: Community, Education, and Philanthropy. Orlando, Florida: Tech4Good Orlando — September Meetup.

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Women of Color Resource Center: An Interview with Anisha Desai

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She has co-authored publications on fair taxation, housing and the racial wealth divide. We are based in Oakland, but we do work nationally, and in many cases globally, but our funding is always under constraints. I grew up in Florida in a pretty narrow-minded, and very closed South Asian community. AD: There is, yes.