Tech Soup

JANUARY 6, 2014

There, she builds technology that connects local communities to resources that help them solve problems and impact issues. A few weeks ago, we learned that SafeNight is a finalist in the Reimagine Opportunity Challenge from Partnership for Freedom. This challenge seeks to bring innovative solutions to the anti-trafficking field.

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CauseVox

MARCH 13, 2024

And we couldn’t think of a better organization to highlight than Spur Local. Spur Local blew it out of the water last year with their Give Local Together Campaign. About Spur Local Spur Local (formerly Catalogue for Philanthropy), is a nonprofit dedicated to strengthening communities in the Greater Washington region.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 18, 2017

All the planning was ahead of me to deliver on our mission to increase investment in the social sector, improve partnerships – particularly between local actors and their supporters – and provide support for strong, resilient and impactful nonprofits. The old adage remains true – we measure what we care about.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 20, 2009

Join us in a UK hyperlocal alliance… « Talk About Local (alpha) - Will Perrin is on a mission to engage and convene localities via the web. "After So i quit my job and set up Talk About Local to bring locally created and locally owned websites to communities across the country."

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Everyaction

JUNE 20, 2018

Their model of empowerment amplifies the voices of refugee communities, allowing them to act as their own champions. World Relief was formed by the National Association of Evangelicals to partner with local churches in order to help protect vulnerable populations by ending cycles of suffering and building sustainable communities.

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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. One was an airline company, so I assumed it would be their local employees signing up.

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MARCH 1, 2023

They harness the power of collective giving to fund grants for local programs who work to support women like the YWCA, Girl Scouts, and various domestic violence coalitions. Their grantees come from all over the world and the fund partners with organizations thematically with a current focus on economic empowerment.

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Evaluation Capacity = ability to do and use evaluations The key to achieving more effective evaluation and overcoming these challenges is evaluation capacity building (ECB). Consider reaching out to local universities to tap into departments, professors, and students for consulting, resources, and education.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Have you interacted with your local government, or spoken to your peers about their programs? Do you have a pulse on what the most pressing local needs are at this moment? What about local nonprofits or community foundations; do you know who to reach out to if needed? Where does your organization sit in your community?

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ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 18, 2018

I saw myself rising to each new challenge. Through hosting informational booths at community events and presenting to local businesses and community groups, I have shared the mission of my agency with hundreds of people. Through being tested, my confidence grew. That means in one day’s work, I took part in changing 34 lives.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

is a nonprofit educational and vocational training organization that has been working with local at-risk populations since 2009. It aims to provide a gateway towards empowerment, educational, and employment opportunities to lead a fulfilling, prosperous, and purposeful life. One in five people there live at the poverty level.

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Classy

APRIL 27, 2021

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. Employees now have more access to stress management resources and empowerment to seek the support they need on an individual level.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 23, 2022

Empowerment is the greatest form of impact. Whatever happens in our communities — locally and globally — affects us all. If we want to make progress on the challenges we all face, we need to ensure the communities around us have the opportunity to thrive. This helps us attract some of the best talent around the world.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Whether by leveraging employee match, deploying disaster assistance funds or investing in local non-profits through our local grants program, we leverage our resources to contribute to society. We also work with local food banks across each of our global offices. Gender Equality (Goal 5).

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 1, 2015

TechSoup is an international network of more than 60 NGOs that leverages technology to build nonprofit capacity and help solve social problems locally and globally. More About Our Participants. TechSoup serves nonprofits in 236 countries and territories around the world. plus_socialgood.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 23, 2016

A host of cultural, economic, social and infrastructural barriers keep women locked out from the empowerment potential of Internet access. At World Pulse we trust that local women community leaders will reveal the way forward. In mid- to low-income countries this statistic soars to a 25-40 percent access gap between women and men.

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Tech Soup

MAY 7, 2014

There, she builds technology that connects local communities to resources that help them solve problems and impact issues. Caravan Studios, a division of TechSoup Global, entered its app SafeNight into the ReImagine: Opportunity Challenge. The Challenge was designed to surface ideas from non-traditional groups.

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Actually, 18% of nonprofits cite having a small staff (or staff transitions) as the greatest challenge they encounter. . The staff of a nonprofit school or tutoring system may prefer academic journals, while those at the local animal shelter may prefer online training courses. .

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 15, 2014

While art, history, creativity, and culture are the vehicles for that empowerment, the teens involved spend a lot of their time with activists, civic leaders, and social psychologists. It''s about empowerment and community leadership through art and history. Scale is still a challenge for co-creative work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2011

NStreet Village : N Street Village is a community of empowerment and recovery for homeless and low-income women in Washington, D.C.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

If you don't have a local group (I can help fix that problem! ), there are also free online guides and a global Twitter chat October 5 using the hashtag #storymakers2017. Atrisco, New Mexico: Working Group and Help Desk: Bring Your Projects and Tech Challenges. Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso: Monthly Meeting of Local Members.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 29, 2015

We are unapologetic about focusing local. Focusing local helps us define our community by identity. We have partnered with the county-wide community assessment project to learn more about the demographics, interests, and needs of local residents. Let’s start with empowerment.

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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. should enable power in members and facilitate a global impact of highly local activity.” face and how we could help solve them. On the core.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 15, 2010

I used that tactic locally 2 move others to act. realize_ink : Q3: empowerment & ownership. America’s Giving Challenge = push vs. Kiva peer-to-peer microfinance = pull. ehon : Challenge w online campaign – lots of sympathisers not enough activists. [link] was abt ppl, not an org. Are we closer 2 our goals?

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Tech Soup

MARCH 4, 2016

Focusing in on Local Issues. The city's OpenData goals are to improve city services for residents and businesses, produce jobs, enhance economic opportunities, and increase resident engagement and empowerment. Open Data San Francisco. The lineup began with an overview of San Francisco's OpenData Program.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

Grantees will engage in peer discussions about integrating social media effectively into their communications strategies and will learn from each other – from challenges and missteps as much as from accomplishments and wins – so success means organizations sharing both. Grantees Implement A Modest and Realistic Action Learning Pilot.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 8, 2007

The CHAG is given considerable liberty with what they do, but they must rely mostly on local resources and advocacy. What is the biggest challenge of your work? The biggest challenge is definitely the fact that an “NGO” in Mali is seen as a “waritigi” (money owner). However, empowerment is what we strive to create.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Images of Empowerment. To address this need, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, in partnership with the David and Lucile Packard Foundation and Getty Images, created Images of Empowerment. Images of Empowerment was created in 2015 and was extended in 2018. Grand Challenges Awards Repository.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 8, 2008

As more and more politicians dive into the world of Social Media, the way we communicate and interact with our local and national representatives is changing. Lessons in Local Tech: Sustainable Food 2.0 We will talk about the challenges, best methods, & incentives for creating your own superhero extension!

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

." -- Jose Corona, Inner City Advisors Jose Corona is the Executive Director of Inner City Advisors , a nonprofit that helps build sustainable and responsible inner city businesses that create quality jobs, reinvest in the community, and contribute to the local economy. Are you hiring locally? Are you using local suppliers?

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 19, 2015

Emily started by honing in on local teens' assets: creativity, activist energy, desire to make a difference, desire to be heard, free time in the afternoon. She surveyed existing local programs. The most successful programs fostered youth empowerment and community leadership in various content areas: agriculture, technology, healing.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 19, 2009

Erickson founded FORGE (Facilitating Opportunities for Refugee Growth and Empowerment) in 2003 when she was a 20 year-old junior studying public policy at Stanford University. The projects can range from preschools, to libraries and computer training centers, to women empowerment programs. What's the challenge of using that process ?

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Museum 2.0

JULY 6, 2016

One of the nonprofits that inspires me locally here in Santa Cruz is a youth empowerment and food justice organization called "Food, What!?" After offering up these four keys, Doron energizes the classroom with a challenge. The recruitment phase is just the start of FoodWhat’s relevance challenge. Stand out in some way.

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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.

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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 also take part in trainings that are relevant to most of their work.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 2, 2007

Read More » Collaboration for Funders: Understanding the Challenges Joe Anderson in Influence 1 Jul 2010 This is part two of a series on online collaboration for grantmakers. I wish I was able to attend, but am glad that many of my clients have the opportunity to go. The conference is held every two years, and is always. We also saw some.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 25, 2008

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? AD: I think what excites me the most are also probably some of our challenges, exciting challenges. That is the part that I feel very, very excited and challenged by.

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