Remove Challenge Remove Empowerment Remove Global Remove Voice
article thumbnail

Ways We Can All Help Advance Women’s and Girls’ Empowerment

Connection Cafe

Women’s and girls’ empowerment is a sweeping topic, defined and shaped by family beliefs and cultural norms in the community and country where one lives. Some people associate the empowerment of women and girls primarily with challenges faced in communities where poverty and lack of access to education determine one’s level of empowerment.

article thumbnail

Celebrate International Women’s Day 2021

Forum One

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. Amplifying the voices of female peacemakers. Telling stories through images of empowerment.

professionals

Sign Up for our Newsletter

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

article thumbnail

5 Organizations To Support On World Refugee Day

Everyaction

They have since expanded to become a leading advocate for resolution of global refugee crises by world leaders. Their model of empowerment amplifies the voices of refugee communities, allowing them to act as their own champions. Refugees International was founded in 1979 as a citizens’ movement to protect Indochinese refugees.

Support 74
article thumbnail

What A Pandemic Teaches Us About Innovation and Corporate Giving

Givinga

A look back at 2020 shows that unprecedented challenges often lead to unexpected opportunity. COVID-19 showcased the huge opportunity for companies, on a global scale, to play a more pronounced, proactive and impactful role, through impact innovation. Matching drives participation.

Teach 52
article thumbnail

What I Learned About Online Donor Engagement from Fundraisers in Brasil

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The challenges: Explosion of online media channels. The UN Global Report is also using Facebook Messenger bots to engage young people around different issues. ” The campaign, which has global appeal, features testicles giving their own testi-monials about cancer and how they have been personally affected. Empowerment.

article thumbnail

How to Prevent Burnout at Your Nonprofit, From the Experts

Classy

Fifty-one percent of Americans reported mental health challenges at work since COVID-19 began, and 30% are fearful to report their mental health struggles to their employer. That’s especially true coming off of a year defined by a global pandemic, social justice movements, and a tense presidential election.

Culture 105
article thumbnail

Fostering Innovation and Creativity in Youth Through App Development

Tech Soup

Organizations are helping to facilitate these conversations and learnings globally. utilize technology to develop solutions to social challenges. Some of the apps created by youth who have completed the program include: Buzzer Buddiez is a unique alarm app that uses voice-recording and a buddy system to help you get up in the morning.

Develop 59