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SAP Gives Back

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They contribute curriculum ideas, teaching, and even an interactive social network so that members of their virtual university community can participate in webinars, blogs, and peer-to-peer coaching. movement, a world of 7 billion has implications for sustainability, urbanization, access to health services, and youth empowerment.

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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. For those nonprofits working on sustainable development issues - NextDrop uses mobile technology to monitor and improve water flow in urban India and subsequent sustainable development. Bangalore and Pune, India Greenpeace got 937 text backs and 149 new supporters.

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What is your “Individual Social Responsibility (ISR)?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

After finishing a four-day intensive training in Delhi for the Networked NGO , I stayed on a few days in India to visit colleague, Rufina Fernandez, who I met when she was the CEO of the Nasscom Foundation when she brought me to India to speak at the leadership conference and teach workshops back in 2010. The man denied it and left.

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Bringing Women a Global Voice: Jensine Larsen, World Pulse

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It had hit India. The women are day after day documenting that healing process in their online journals, in their online blog. We call them journals, because blogging is a little intimidating to the women who are new to this. We brought professional empowerment mentors and coaches, and also professional editors.

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Girls' Night Out with a Twist: Dining for Women and the Power of Giving Circles

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And most people are not aware of all these kinds of facts, and the struggles that women face. The essence of Dining for Women is connection, education, and self-empowerment. In 2007, we went to India, and we visited a program called Matrichaya , which we'll be supporting again in January of 2011. I didn't know all of this.

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Using Photography to Change the World: An Interview with Paola Gianturco

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Britt Bravo: In so many of the groups you profiled, the women were using the arts for education, empowerment, or healing. As I was traveling to 12 countries to interview women artisans, a woman in India said, "Come back in the fall and we'll teach you how to dance the dances that we perform all night to honor the mother god, Durga."

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The Global Fund for Women: An Interview with Kavita Ramdas

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My mother believed very deeply that being privileged middle class Indians, the community that I grew up in India, required us to have a commitment and a sense of giving back to the communities that we grew up in and around, and to really seeing those communities. I think my comment in The Nation was really more about that.

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