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Workforce development for the nonprofit tech professionals of the future: It will be a consortium, not a building with a dome!

Deborah Elizabeth Finn

Examples include Economic Mobility Pathways (EMPath) , Shriver Job Corps , International Institute of New England , JFYnet , Jobs For the Future , National Fund for Workforce Solutions, SkillWorks , Boston PIC , YearUp , and Massachusetts Department of Labor and Workforce Development. And that’s just UMass-Boston!

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Higher Education Funding & Grant Resources

Bloomerang

The Awesome Foundation is a global community advancing the interest of “awesome in the universe,” mostly through providing $1,000 micro-grants. Costco Wholesale’s “primary charitable efforts specifically focus on programs supporting children, education, and health and human services in the communities where we do business.”.

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Social Trends for 2024

Media Cause

A Boston University student told Input that photo dumps are a “personal scrapbook,” saying, “posting what I want takes stress and pressure out of posting on social media.” Despite dealing with something so heavy as grieving children, its social media presence is 10/10. I’m a huge fan of the nonprofit Experience Camps.

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How I Got Here

Museum 2.0

Part 1: It's What You Want In 2002, I was finishing a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering at WPI, a hands-on, technical university in Worcester, Massachusetts. By the spring of 2003 I felt I'd learned what I could in Boston and tried to figure out where to go next. Heroes I admired from afar became friends and mentors.

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Revenge of the Female Nerds: Myth Busting

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

She went on to explain that the principle way people get ahead in sciences is through mentoring. If men dominate, your mentors will be. There is anxiety about an older man mentoring a younger woman. The concern is that he is just mentoring her because she is judged a "cutie." " That struggle doesn???t

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Solutionary Women: Alli Chagi-Starr, Ilyse Hogue, Melinda Kramer and Reem Rahim

Have Fun - Do Good

I ended up discovering a program, at New College of California, a couple of years later, when I was producing arts benefits for social change, especially for women and children living with HIV, this was about 1989 and 1990. One will be for mothers who are mourning the loss of their children who died in gunfights in Oakland. We are a 3.5

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