article thumbnail

Let’s All Pull Together: Reflections from Harambee 2023

Candid

Uplifting historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) Shaw University, located in Raleigh, NC, was the first HBCU organized in the South and is the birthplace of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). At Howard University, we used to sing the song during convocation.

article thumbnail

Announcing Our Second Impact Labs Cohort on Zero Hunger: Supporting Small-Scale Farmers Globally

Saleforce Nonprofit

Since 2008 Emma has been engaged in a wide range of climate-resilience building consortia projects, principally in East and West Africa, developing weather and climate information and services to support decision-making at local, national, regional, and international levels. Eric Munoz. Senior Program Manager, Oxfam America.

Hunger 52
professionals

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

What Pride Month Means To Our Team

AccelEvents

It means to get on top of any mountain and shout to the universe – “This is who I am, and I love all of me! ” “To me, pride is the ability to be one’s unabashed, entire self. I feel that at one time or another, working at Accelevents has made us look within and answer the questions of “What am I made of?

Team 98
article thumbnail

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. His forthcoming. newscasts for CurrentTV. He has spoken publicly about his work to audiences at the Smithsonian, UC. conferences and public events around the world.

article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

Writing for Change Conference: An Interview with Elizabeth Pomada

Have Fun - Do Good

And then, of course, we have Riane Eisler , whose new book is about the wealth of nations, speaking, and she, too, is an idealist. We have Angus Wright , who does books about the political environment in Brazil and saving the rainforest for the world. Now the movie is out, and it'll spread the word a little further.

article thumbnail

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.

Local 104