Forum One

MARCH 8, 2021

This year’s theme is #ChooseToChallenge because a challenged world is an alert world. Individually, we’re all responsible for our own thoughts and actions, but we can choose to challenge and call out gender bias and inequity. Connecting women to change the face of political leadership.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 19, 2021

The important thing to remember is that you have the power to change the mindsets that aren’t serving you. The first step in changing something is understanding it. You might resist change, compare yourself to others, and remain stuck where you are. . You’ve assumed the role of the author of your life.

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Candid

JULY 2, 2021

Announced at the Generation Equality Forum convened by UN Women and co-hosted by the governments of Mexico and France, the Gates Foundation's commitment will focus on three areas: women's economic empowerment, health and family planning, and leadership. Now is the chance to reignite a movement and deliver real change.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 28, 2022

This unique annual gathering brings together political, business, civil society, and media leaders to discuss big ideas and challenges. Whether campaigning for the future of our planet, directing documentaries, or creating content that spotlights global issues, social empowerment and environmental education are at the core of Jack’s work.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Taproot connects nonprofits and other social change organizations with skilled volunteers sharing their expertise pro bono. But, as you know, things have continued to change as crisis has layered on top of crisis. Since the shift to virtual, how has volunteering changed? We all have a role to play in making the world better.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 23, 2022

Empowerment is the greatest form of impact. Unfortunately, many nonprofits and schools find themselves struggling to access the resources and expertise they need to navigate these changes, nor address the digital divide that exists in the communities they serve. The projects in and of themselves are high value. Communities Thrive.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 4, 2021

Throughout her distinguished career working for prominent consumer goods companies like General Mills and The Kellogg Company, Crawley has been an avid champion for brand purpose — something that certainly won’t be lacking in her new role with Goodwill. To that point, what’s the biggest challenge that Goodwill faces today?

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 16, 2020

As nonprofits attempt to tackle some of our communities' most difficult problems; funders, government agencies and the general public are actively calling for accountability, transparency and proof that a program is producing change. Does the environment support change, accountability, and communication? Create a written plan.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 18, 2017

In all our research, we found 3 challenges to making sense of the evidence: Capacity Building Divorced from Results. The Forgotten Roots of Capacity Development in the Movement for Ownership and Empowerment. Our role was to coach, support, mentor where necessary – but never to lead. Who is defining results anyway?

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 22, 2019

Rusty Morgen Stahl, in an article examining research on nonprofit hiring strategies, wrote for The Foundation Review, “It is reasonable to ask what has been done to tackle the talent challenge. It is apparent that the nonprofit sector is going through a time of difficulties and change when it comes to recruiting and retaining employees.

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Twenty Hats

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

So I think, in many ways, for as often as everybody complains about technology and all the challenges, I think this past year could have gone very differently if we didn’t have these platforms.” — Volunteer manager embracing technology in Ohio. “None of us were ready for this. What a year it’s been. That was the silver lining.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

How do you build a movement for institutional change? We see OF/BY/FOR ALL as an adaptable playbook for community change. The challenge is to figure out the best way to share that playbook. We plan to fuel a distributed Change Network of organizations growing OF/BY/FOR ALL together. Change is better. Consulting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 7, 2012

It is all about the data, but data is playing a huge role in civic engagement strategies and if people or nonprofits lack the skills to use it for civic engagement goals, that poses a problem. According to the blog post: “Data and reports alone do not produce change,” said Charlotte Kahn, Senior Director of the Boston Indicators Project.

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Deborah Elizabeth Finn

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

It is really inspiring to see philanthropic and nonprofit professional engaging in public conversations about these challenges, and even more inspiring to see them taking action to create positive changes. Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World. Philanthropy for change, not charity.

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NTEN

AUGUST 16, 2011

By Jeff Ramos, Community and Content Manager, Games for Change. For the first time, this year's Games for Change Festival created an opportunity for producers of games in development to get live feedback from leading game designers, educators, and funders on the main stage. JURY FEEDBACK. BOTTOM LINE & FUNDING. JURY FEEDBACK.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 17, 2017

Wake’s Tech2Empower program organizes delegations of volunteer Technology Advisors, women who work for Silicon Valley companies like Google, Salesforce, Mozilla, YouTube, GE Digital and IRC, to provide training for women’s rights and girls empowerment NGOs in developing countries and here in the United States. … Read More

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ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 18, 2018

I saw myself rising to each new challenge. Starting out, my main focus was recruiting community members to become change makers and role models in children’s lives—also known as Big Brothers and Big Sisters. That means in one day’s work, I took part in changing 34 lives. Through being tested, my confidence grew.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

At PIMCO, we understand that it’s our responsibility to effect meaningful social change, both as members of an organization and as part of our larger communities. Here are some examples of how we partner for change: Hunger (Goal 2). This focus is meant to provide a guide for our new framework of corporate responsibility.

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Everyaction

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

Created in 1998, the United Nations Foundation links the United Nations' work with others around the world, helping the UN address a range of global issues, including climate change, global health, women’s empowerment, peace and security, poverty eradication, and more.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Over the last ten years, the MLK Scholars Program has brought together partners from across the social, public and private sectors to enact positive change in the Boston community. John Hancock maintains open avenues of communication so they can discuss these kinds of challenges, and formulated the program’s award process with this in mind.

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Tech Soup

JULY 8, 2011

discuss approaches to addressing nagging challenges of the current. the opportunity it gave me to hear leaders in the sector discuss the challenges faced at the grassroots level; the. could potentially employ data towards triggering social change, great. role of technology in these initiatives varied largely, but there was.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2016

They wanted to help museums and galleries across the UK make significant, sustained changes in the ways they engage community partners and visitors as participants in their work. In its first five years, Our Museum yielded real change at twelve diverse UK organizations. Most major change doesn't happen when things are going well.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

It marked the start of a six month peer learning exchange where I, along with colleague Stephanie Rudat will work remotely with grantees as they implement an action learning project to put techniques into practice and facilitate organizational change from the inside out. organizational change, and technology. Program Design.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 4, 2015

I feel lucky to be a small part of that change. That said, there are a couple big things I got wrong in the book - or at least, that I''ve changed my perspective on since writing it. When you seriously value the diverse experience and knowledge of community members, you challenge the traditional assignment of knowledge authority.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

I love this stuff because, to me, data done right is empowerment. I asked some folks on Twitter today if they had a BI strategy and what their biggest challenges were. No one said the biggest challenge was the software. . Challenges often reside in identification, classification. I want to eat statistics for dinner.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

Atrisco, New Mexico: Working Group and Help Desk: Bring Your Projects and Tech Challenges. Research Triangle Park, North Carolina: Crowdsourcing Change: The Social Web to Nonprofits. Mahikeng, South Africa: Rural Tech Empowerment. Morogoro, Tanzania: Role of ICT for Farm Management. Thursday, September 21, 2017.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Images of Empowerment. A common need for these efforts is how to tell the story of the roles women around the world play today in decision-making, income earning, and accessing and using reproductive health care information and services. . Images of Empowerment was created in 2015 and was extended in 2018.

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Forj

MAY 18, 2021

When employees are struggling at home, remembering that they have a role can make all the difference between giving up and pushing forward. Empowerment & Encourage Success. The next important aspect of a successful remote workplace is empowerment. A leader must give team members the ability to live out their expertise.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 25, 2008

Desai came to the Women of Color Resource Center from a Deputy Director role at United for a Fair Economy. BB: What excites you the most about the work that the Center is doing, and its future, and then, what are some of the biggest challenges that you are facing? That is the part that I feel very, very excited and challenged by.

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Bloomerang

MAY 14, 2021

So I was at a university and in the early part of the pandemic, the university was hit hard by just the economic changes that were happening in the country and in our state. And, Marty, I saw your comment about the career change and everything else. Sarah: When I was let go, it was a complete shock. Yes, Cam, 100% personal networks.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

Addressing Complex Challenges. In other words, it's an amazing opportunity to support the critical work of organizations — not just here in the US — but around the globe in places where civil societies are struggling to address complex, challenging issues. Technology uptake has flourished in Turkey in the past 20 years.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 28, 2006

So many of these women are local leaders, and Women's Global Green Action Network is attempting to provide a space for women to step into roles of being global advocates, and to really have a more prevalent platform for the messages and the work that they are doing. We do it in a number of ways.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2011

While I faced a difficult decision culling winners from the forty focused initiatives described in the entries, I selected the following based on their innovative and courageous approaches to a variety of social issues, from new types of housing for the underserved, to animal welfare, to women’s empowerment.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 2, 2007

One of the biggest challenges has been, when you think about fair trade coffee or fair trade tea, those are items that are commodity pricing; so when you buy or sell a pound of fair trade coffee, you are really buying it or selling it based on a market price, and then the fair trade price is X percent above that and a social premium.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

So you want to change the world, and you know that using images and other visual content is an excellent way to convince people to support your cause. Interruption "works to challenge the dominant narrative or jar the normal way of seeing things. What change are you trying to make or what problem are you trying to solve?

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

So you want to change the world, and you know that using images and other visual content is an excellent way to convince people to support your cause. Interruption "works to challenge the dominant narrative or jar the normal way of seeing things. What change are you trying to make or what problem are you trying to solve?

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Non Profit Quarterly

MARCH 2, 2022

Electronic transaction platforms like Amazon, Uber, Grubhub, and Airbnb have perhaps permanently changed the way that we live and work. The labor movement has usually consisted of workers negotiating with companies over wages and working conditions or pushing for social change. Can Labor Unions Support Platform Cooperatives? .

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