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Just Announced: The 2021 Classy Awards Finalists

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Our Classy Awards Committee has been hard at work evaluating the outstanding programs nominated by social impact organizations around the world, and we’re excited to announce the Top 50 Finalists for the 2021 Classy Awards. . Meet the Classy Awards Finalists. The Classy Awards Finalists. Domestic abuse .

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President's Update

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

I was awarded one of the 2006 MacArthur Fellowships. These awards are based not so much on past achievements, as an expectation that you will do something exciting in the future. For example, I'm planning on going to India and Bangladesh next month for the first time, and to Uganda and Sudan next year.

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How They Did It: LWB Wins Facebook Causes Giving Challenge - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

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From teaching supporters how to create Facebook accounts to ol fashioned door-to-door fundraising, Amy Eldridge from LWB, an admitted Facebook newbie, says its as much the offline as the online work that gets the job done. That went to several thousand supporters. In the beginning we emailed our supporters about once a week.

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How They Did It: LWB Wins Facebook Causes Giving Challenge - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

From teaching supporters how to create Facebook accounts to ol fashioned door-to-door fundraising, Amy Eldridge from LWB, an admitted Facebook newbie, says its as much the offline as the online work that gets the job done. That went to several thousand supporters. In the beginning we emailed our supporters about once a week.

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Bringing Women a Global Voice: Jensine Larsen, World Pulse

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It's a very creative town, very community oriented, and the energy there is very supportive. I worked on the side with my massage to be able to get the income to support myself while I did something very, very entrepreneurial and very risky. The most powerful impact we found was actually in the women's leadership and influence locally.

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Tools to End Poverty: An Interview with Martin Fisher of KickStart

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The organization has received numerous awards for its work, and Fisher recently received the $100,000 Lemelson-MIT Award for Sustainability. KickStart is a nonprofit that develops and markets new technologies in Africa that help local entrepreneurs to establish small businesses.