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Let’s All Pull Together: Reflections from Harambee 2023

Candid

“Whenever I walk on a campus at an HBCU, I feel like I’m home.” – Susan Taylor Batten, president and CEO, ABFE After the session ended, the Shaw band played “Lift Every Voice and Sing” (also known as the “Negro National Anthem”). Joseph Awards After-Party and meetups in between, there was plenty of Black joy and celebration.

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10X: CEO’s Update: Spring 2014

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The Oak Foundation just awarded us a grant to provide accessible content to people with qualifying learning differences (like dyslexia) in Brazil, India, and the United Kingdom. Canadians with disabilities will now have access to Bookshare through their public libraries and the Canadian National Institute of the Blind.

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Upcoming Nonprofits Live: Storytelling and Collaborative Video

Tech Soup

employers in Brazil and the US. In Brazil, David wrote and directed. Berkeley, Stanford, United Nations University, New York University, UC. was awarded a Knight 2010 News Challenge grant for Stroome , a collaborative video editing and publishing platform designed to. His forthcoming. newscasts for CurrentTV.

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Participation in Storytelling: Collaborative Video on Nonprofits Live

Tech Soup

His forthcoming book, Você Vai me Servir ("You Will Serve Me," Annablume Publishers, São Paulo, 2012) is a comparative ethnographic study of relationships between domestic workers and their employers in Brazil and the US. In Brazil, David wrote and directed newscasts for CurrentTV. Thomas Grasty - Stroome.

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Go Holiday Shopping with Your Global Girlfriend

Have Fun - Do Good

According to a recent article in Muncie, Indiana's Star Press , "the National Retail Federation expects the average consumer to spend $791.10 Global Girlfriend's founder, Stacey Edgar, received a Microsoft Start Something Amazing Awards Honorable Mention , and was named the 2005 Aveeno Woman with Organic Style. last year."

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EENs Avatars Campaign Brings Online Marketing to Life - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

To make the avatars really represent the countries we had them wear their national flags as badges on caps, t-shirts, sleeves and pants and bags. There were some complications with this, we didnt have enough ethnic avatars, so the Brazilian one was a blonde girl, as we knew there were also blonde girls in Brazil. Buy advertising?

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EENs Avatars Campaign Brings Online Marketing to Life - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

To make the avatars really represent the countries we had them wear their national flags as badges on caps, t-shirts, sleeves and pants and bags. There were some complications with this, we didnt have enough ethnic avatars, so the Brazilian one was a blonde girl, as we knew there were also blonde girls in Brazil. Buy advertising?

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