Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Success Factors: Public Engagement: The challenge was simple, fun, and encouraged user-generated content, leading to massive social media engagement and celebrity participation. Success Factors: Celebrity Advocacy: Leveraging celebrity power attracts attention and builds trust with potential donors. Online Donations – St.

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Campaign Google Giving Nonprofit 133

Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

Empowerment for our participants comes from connecting to an inner wisdom that is often kept hidden from public view, but is a place of extraordinary innate strength and well being. Each card is a piece of art in my mind. Connecting personal wisdom to effect positive change is our goal. We hope you will share your voice with the world!

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Costa Rica Interview Afghanistan Artist 60

Museum 2.0

JULY 6, 2016

For the last time this summer, I'm sharing a chapter from my new book The Art of Relevance to celebrate its release. One of the nonprofits that inspires me locally here in Santa Cruz is a youth empowerment and food justice organization called "Food, What!?" Before their teen years, children are sponges.

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Teen Arts Classroom Student 25

Saleforce Nonprofit

MARCH 8, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic is disproportionately affecting women and girls around the world, which threatens the gains made in the past decades in advancing women’s economic empowerment, health, rights, and safety. With that in mind, here are three other organizations that are working to break the bias for girls and women across the world.

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Costa Rica Game Change Uganda 111

Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 28, 2007

Britt Bravo: In so many of the groups you profiled, the women were using the arts for education, empowerment, or healing. The children are ages 6-16, and they're making huge strides by leading a national movement against child rape in Zimbabwe. Celebrating Women was book number two. And, their weapon is poetry.

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Photography Interview Zimbabwe Change 40

Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 29, 2006

This last fall we produce a CD called Eye of the Storm which has been an amazing project, just the creativity and the generosity of the artists who participated on this CD still blows my mind. It's an amazing act of love really in response to the hurricane and the racial neglect that occurred down on the Gulf. That's just the reality.

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Arts Podcast Action Interview 40

Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 2, 2008

They wanted to create a literacy program for themselves because now there was a school where their children could go to school, but they felt embarrassed that they couldn't support their children because they themselves were illiterate. Women and their children are disproportionately victims of outside violence as well.

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Global Fund Interview United States 44