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How a Community of Long-Term Monthly Donors Make a Long-Term Difference

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Is their repeated generosity creating the kind of long-term change a long-term donor expects? Water.org ’s approach to empowering people with safe water and sanitation delivers on long-term impact expectations and makes it convenient for donors to create the change they wish to see in the world. Creating powerful solutions.

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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.

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Changing lives through financial empowerment

ASU Lodestar Center

Throughout the class, we covered topics like budgeting, the differences between debit and credits cards, and finding money to save. These girls had found themselves alone, with no money, and now responsible for the care a young child, all by the age of 16. In other words, they were just trying to make it through the day.

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An Evolution of Evaluation in Grantmaking With a Participatory Lens

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We all want to know whether our work makes a difference. Grantmakers want to know if their funding has created the change they have envisioned. Here, we explore for whom change is desired and who is defining and measuring that change. But is this the right question? To look is an act of choice.”

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Leveraging data to better serve under-resourced communities 

Candid

Individual donors and foundations increasingly view data “ as the fuel for innovation and social change.” If we do not document the different needs of each group, the most at-risk and under-resourced communities will continue to fall through the cracks.

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Youth community service: Belonging, reciprocity, and agency 

Candid

Respondents also said service increased their belief that they can make a positive difference in their community (79%), self-awareness (78%), knowledge about social, political, and civic issues (72%), and ability to collaborate with others (80%). Funding lines don’t necessarily have to change to support service,” he said.

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Are Associations Losing Their Members’ Trust?—The Leadership ColLAB Explores This Critical Question

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ENA Culture Statements Staff The Emergency Nurses Association will seek at all times to foster and maintain a culture of excellence, commitment, empowerment, collaboration, inclusivity, and accountability. Associations revolve around relationships, but the shape of those connections has changed.