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Vietnam and Indonesia Join TechSoup Asia’s Growing Family

Tech Soup

They are all part of TechSoup Asia , which serves charities in the Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand — and now Vietnam and Indonesia. TechSoup Asia Asia is a nonprofit collaborative venture between TechSoup Global and its local nonprofit organization partners, Connecting Up Australia and the Hong Kong Council of Social Service.

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Women Ingenuity is Powering Solutions for the Digital Divide

Connection Cafe

And then there is Myrna in the Philippines, who escaped trafficking as a young girl and worked as a domestic helper. At World Pulse we trust that local women community leaders will reveal the way forward. Even if it is for an hour each day, women will access the Web. The women I work with every day are ready.

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Women's Global Green Action Network: An Interview with Melinda Kramer

Have Fun - Do Good

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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Dancefloor and Balcony: What I learned about emergent online collaboration from Eugene Eric Kim

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

There are now 990 actively engaged Fellows— across the five focal countries of Ethiopia, Nigeria, India, Pakistan, and the Philippines—regularly participating in the Leadership Development for Mobilizing Reproductive Health network activities. However, the local culture was to cover your body up. 1) Everybody is People.

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Bringing Women a Global Voice: Jensine Larsen, World Pulse

Have Fun - Do Good

The most powerful impact we found was actually in the women's leadership and influence locally. Just here in the Bay Area we have local things like, Oakland Local , Oakland Seen , and Spot.us. If your angle is using this training as an outlet for local empowerment and development, then you very much want to bring in mentorship.

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300 More Email Subject Lines from End of Year Fundraising

Connection Cafe

The use of end of year giving challenges has proven to be very successful for a number of organizations. A few words of advice and caution about these challenge campaigns: Don’t forget to follow-up with donors about the final results. Today is the last day of the __ Challenge: Thanks for your support! Today is the day.

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Solutionary Women: Alli Chagi-Starr, Ilyse Hogue, Melinda Kramer and Reem Rahim

Have Fun - Do Good

In 1995, I'm giving you my life story; I took a class called Challenging White Supremacy. When I did a little digging, I realized that aside from threatening our water supply in Austin, Texas, they had sufficiently done that in Indonesia, and the Philippines and pretty much all over the world. But you know, it teaches you a lot.

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