Everyaction

JUNE 20, 2018

In June of 2018, this mandate feels more pressing than ever, as thousands of families seeking asylum are torn apart and children are held in cages at the U.S. They offer specialized programs that focus on women and girls, and the increasing number of refugees who are displaced by the effects of climate change. Asylum Access.

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Support Organization United States Disaster 74

ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 18, 2018

I have always been a very aspirational person, and I have always aspired to do something great with my life. 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. posted by Emma Mones Class 12 Public Ally.

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Public Impact Arizona Empowerment 40

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 3, 2013

In what is known as the “ braille provision ,” the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) of 2004 mandates that the teams who help write educational plans for students with disabilities presume that all blind and visually impaired children should be taught Braille unless it is determined to be inappropriate.

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Literacy eBook Images Accessibility 208

Museum 2.0

APRIL 17, 2013

When we talk about museums or cultural institutions as vehicles of social and civic change, what does that really mean? Last week I had a conversation that changed my perspective on this question. And we each have specific interests in increasing access, connection, and empowerment of marginalized people.

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Arts Work Museum Homeless 51

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 10, 2016

The royalties that I earn from my books have been donated to nonprofits to support women’s and girl’s empowerment work and given this past week, I am all the more convinced of the need to support such programs. I am honored to be an advisor to WAKE, whose mission is to amplify the work of women leading change globally.

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Cambodia Empowerment Nonprofit Training 50

Bloomerang

APRIL 7, 2022

To that end, I’ve compiled a list of funders who spend their time and grantmaking resources on assisting women-led movements to advance meaningful change. Each year, Mama Cash supports over 100 women’s, girls’, trans and intersex rights groups that are working to change the world. Amber Grant Foundation. Foundation for Women.

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Empowerment Grant Fund Resource 80

Kindful

MARCH 5, 2021

To that end, I’ve compiled a list of funders who spend their time and grantmaking resources on assisting women-led movements to advance meaningful change. Each year, Mama Cash supports over 100 women’s, girls’, trans and intersex rights groups that are working to change the world. Amber Grant Foundation. Foundation for Women.

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Empowerment Grant Fund Resource 104

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. Connecting personal wisdom to effect positive change is our goal. Tell us what you are doing to make positive change in your community.

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Costa Rica Interview Afghanistan Artist 60

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!?" The farmer-turned-activist is ready to sell struggling teenagers on something they may want in their hearts but don’t know how to access: a ticket to a meaningful life.

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Media Cause

JUNE 16, 2022

Color Of Change —Color Of Change is the nation’s largest online racial justice organization. National Urban League —The National Urban League is a historic civil rights organization dedicated to economic empowerment in order to elevate the standard of living in historically underserved urban communities.

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Resource United States Movie Louisville 52

Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 2, 2007

So women cook, clean and take care of their children, and these are all uncompensated activities. Holly has now been out meeting with the International Labor Organization and thinking about different ways that you really help create empowerment for women who work in informal markets. So that has been this huge, exciting progress.

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Gift Marketing Create Interview 40

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2012

But, this wasn’t a just a tourist trip, I was on a mission to see technology social change projects in action and better understand how technology can impact social on the ground in rural areas with limited connectivity and resources. A man came to the Remand House looking for his son and wife, who had apparently run away.

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India Social Homeless 124

Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 28, 2006

And I think that was when my senses were forming, that connection was really given to me, and it has become a part of my life. To look at it from that view, really changes and shifts it for me, because I realize that I'm not making a choice, and working within one siloed issue.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 13, 2009

At the recent Online Nonprofit Technology Conference , Edward Granger-Happ of Save the Children, shared some valuable insights on how nonprofits can work towards the sweet spot at the intersection of technology and mission by looking at the ever-important starting place: strategy and vision. Get ahead of the change. So what can we do?

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Technology Management Cisco NTEN 60

Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 13, 2009

Every week I get to go in and read with the same two children for a half an hour each in the school library. I find it helps keep life in perspective. Organizations like these teach everything from sports, to science, to the arts, to girl empowerment. I had a blast, and hopefully it was a fun learning experience for him too.

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Public San Francisco Volunteer Los Angeles 41

Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 2, 2013

That said, in 2012 I had the opportunity to travel to Africa and Asia and from those travel experiences three themes emerged that inspired the selection of this year’s nonprofits: 1) Women’s and girls empowerment; 2) Conservation of wildlife and wild lands; and 3) Access to medical care. Wildlife SOS :: @ WildlifeSOS.

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Conservancy Nicaragua Kenya National 279

Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 29, 2009

SC: I'd started working with an organization called YouthAIDS which provides services and products to children worldwide who are affected by the HIV/AIDS crisis. We were starting to build small circles within the local communities that are all doing really magnificent work in order to create change. I raised a lot of money.

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Interview Cambodia Children Uganda 46

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. PG: Some 12 years ago, or so, I made a career change at then, age 55.

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Photography Interview Zimbabwe Change 40

Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 29, 2006

Welcome to the Big Vision Podcast where we talk with individuals and organizations that are creating positive change. I think there is a challenge for all of us in our movements to change the world, to keep going and to stay inspired when we are confronted with so much misery and so many travesties and so.

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