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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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Youth community service: Belonging, reciprocity, and agency 

Candid

Activities they considered “service” included “working with others to make the community or campus a better place” (81%), “acting to benefit the common good” (80%), “everyday acts of kindness” (76%), “acting to raise awareness about a campus, community, or global problem” (72%), and “working with others to address social inequality” (68%).

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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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Increasing Accessible Publishing Globally

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

These are exciting times for everyone who’s been working to meet the accessibility imperative, as we are witnessing global movements that will increase accessible publishing and create new and better opportunities for people with disabilities. In my talk, I highlighted three global movements towards increasing accessible publishing.

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An Evolution of Evaluation in Grantmaking With a Participatory Lens

sgEngage

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. It is our hope, as funders, that financially resourcing a movement, an organization, or an individual can lead to positive change.

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Gates, Ford, Open Society announce commitments for gender equality

Candid

billion, $420 million, and $100 million, respectively, over five years in support of efforts to advance gender equality globally. Now is the chance to reignite a movement and deliver real change. billion to advance gender equality globally." Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation press release 06/30/2021.

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Earth Day ‘22: Salesforce.org Customers Tackle Climate Challenges by Land, Air & Sea

Saleforce Nonprofit

We believe, we know, that moving the needle on climate change requires collaboration on all levels. These principles — Seek Community Validation, Implement Sustainability, and Design for Reuse — are intended to guide us toward solutions that will help us drive equitable shifts in climate change. Plant for the Planet. Opens new window.

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