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Let’s All Pull Together: Reflections from Harambee 2023

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“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”). At Howard University, we used to sing the song during convocation.

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What Pride Month Means To Our Team

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It’s important that we pay respects to the black (and queer) communities as they have been on the front lines of the equality movement throughout history, we wouldn’t be where we are today without them!! Humans come in so many different sizes, colors and interests, but at the heart of it all we’re all the same. GAY RIGHTS!!

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Vietnam and Indonesia Join TechSoup Asia’s Growing Family

Tech Soup

It is proper etiquette in Vietnam to politely ask your age, nationality, and marital status on the first meeting. Jakarta, Indonesia-based ASEAN Foundation was launched in 1997 by leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). Jakarta, on the island of Java, is the largest city and the nation's capital.

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Fair Trade Certified: An Interview with Paul Rice of TransFair USA

Have Fun - Do Good

People want to be on the right side of history. PR: I was in Brazil a few months ago, and in this village in Brazil there are about eighty or ninety families that are all very small coffee growers. It's about three hundred dollars a year to send a kid to high school in this region of Brazil. Everyone goes to the store.

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Taking Local Currency Digital: A New Experiment Emerges

Non Profit Quarterly

The one BerkShare note honors the local Mohican nation; W.E.B. There are now over 200 local currencies in use worldwide, according to a database maintained by the Schumacher Center, with popularity greatest in Europe and Brazil. Du Bois is on the five BerkShare note; agricultural activist Robyn Van En on the 10, and so on.

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