NTEN

AUGUST 16, 2011

By Jeff Ramos, Community and Content Manager, Games for Change. For the first time, this year's Games for Change Festival created an opportunity for producers of games in development to get live feedback from leading game designers, educators, and funders on the main stage. BOTTOM LINE & FUNDING. JURY FEEDBACK.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

So here''s the story of how we are trying to take another approach at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History, through a group called C3. Instead, we wanted a collection of leaders, highly networked in different parts of our County, with their fingers on the pulses of significant community issues and activities.

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Global Giving

APRIL 25, 2020

Stories like these sound almost like magic, but they represent a lot of hard work! Do you have a plan for managing issues around ethics, bias, and interpretability? If you don’t have a good question in mind, your organization is probably better off focusing first on clarifying its theory of change. LEARN MORE.

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Everyaction

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

Created in 1998, the United Nations Foundation links the United Nations' work with others around the world, helping the UN address a range of global issues, including climate change, global health, women’s empowerment, peace and security, poverty eradication, and more.

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Tech Soup

MAY 28, 2013

We all have a story. We want to help inspire and educate you to be able to tell your own story with confidence and with success. We want to help inspire and educate you to be able to tell your own story with confidence and with success. Watch their story. Without further ado. First Place Video. Cisco Flip camera.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 15, 2010

This is more of a transcript than a recap, more of what I hope can be a refresher or stimulator for follow up blogs than simply the whole story itself. engagejoe : Hmm…What about ‘using webby tools 2 organize ppl for impact on an array of issues, w/the goal of creating real world change?’

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

Discover how the power of social sharing can shine a light on a serious issue and poke fun at the inanity of discrimination. If we really want to unleash the full power of social networks and online fundraising to advance change, we need to do more. Data is becoming more and more transparent and that is changing the world.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

Over the last year, the work of Traveling Postcards keeps crossing my path, so I asked its founder, Caroline Lovell, to share with us: How Traveling Postcards works The path that brought her to this work Her favorite Traveling Postcards success story How we can get involved with Traveling Postcards I've posted her answers below.

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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. But even more important, it is enough for us learn, to collaborate, and to make change. In that process, we heard many stories. We felt good about our initial proposal confident in the ambition. We said yes.

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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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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 9, 2018

I believe in the power of books to change the world. Literacy and access to knowledge underpins just about every social good, from education, to economic development, to health, to women’s empowerment, democracy and respect for human rights. Consider the issues with printed books. First, they are place-based.

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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

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2016

They wanted to help museums and galleries across the UK make significant, sustained changes in the ways they engage community partners and visitors as participants in their work. In its first five years, Our Museum yielded real change at twelve diverse UK organizations. Most major change doesn't happen when things are going well.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 28, 2016

It is the story of the person’s condition and being challenged—yet at the same time not able to seek the opportunity that should be afforded to them, and the potential ahead of them. The behavior of people is hard to change and can take time – usually more time than you’d like.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 29, 2015

If we want to reflect the identities of our community, we’ve got to focus on changing that. Last year, our board and staff came together to develop a “theory of change” that connects the activities we do to the impact we seek. Let’s start with empowerment. Empowerment is the “individual” side of our theory of change.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 7, 2009

Empowerment is unconditional. Design to support conversations, relationships, stories - not to organise documents. Be specific, define the issue, problem or idea, and let the answers pour in. Be fast and loose with evolving your platform in the early stages, but be cautious of changing things once people start using them.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 25, 2014

Our lead story in this issue of TechSoup’s Nonprofit Technology News is the creation of the Mobile Giving Alliance that will help charities develop their mobile giving. In the midst of a pivotal moment in patient engagement and empowerment, our microphone has been turned off. Facebook’s Problematic News Feeds.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 3, 2007

Given the quantity of organizations, and the enormity of the issues we're faced with today, five qualities are important when designing an action: 1. Many people feel like they can't change issues like the genocide in Darfur, they feel too big. Darfur activism philanthropy advocacy social change Make it simple.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 8, 2008

Social and Nonprofits ROI: Case Study Slam submitted by Beth Kanter Using a poetry slam format, each panelist will present a five-minute poem or story about how their organization has successfully implemented a social media strategy experiment and how they considered the ROI. Who will prevail? s up to YOU, sxsw! With snacks!

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Foundations can make greater progress on addressing critical social issues by using digital platforms to elevate the work and success of the many players in their sector. Foundations are in the business of making the world a better place by providing grants to organizations they see making an impact on the issues that they care about deeply.

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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. They can create the change makers.

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Everyaction

JULY 23, 2018

I called up Jeanette Morelan from WCK to talk about food as an agent for change and some of their recent work around the world. Our work started by focusing on long term empowerment projects. For the past 5 or 6 years we've had a small but steady group of supporters who are primarily invested in our empowerment projects.

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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!?" FoodWhat empowers teens to change their lives through farming and food justice. Then, he establishes credibility with stories from real kids about the program. Hanging out.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

The other thing is that a lot of inner cities are part of empowerment zones or enterprise zones where companies that are at a certain scale and profitable can benefit from tax credits, both from the payroll side, if you hire from the inner city, but also if you locate in the enterprise zones. The public safety issue is huge.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 25, 2008

That's where this work really sprung out of in looking at issues of homelessness, looking at issues of women on welfare, and looking at women in prison-- those who were really most affected and most in need of their voices being lifted. Young women of color, what are the issues that are most important to them?

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 28, 2006

Our essential intention is to cultivate partnerships of grassroots women who are working at the community level on issues of environmental sustainability and social justice, so that they can really find opportunities to collaborate and to exchange best practices, exchange resources, and really build a collective agenda.

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Bloomerang

MAY 14, 2021

Ephraim Gopin moderates a panel of nonprofit pros – Mimosa Kabir, Sarah Willey, and Lisa Chmiola – to look at the issue of being laid off and ask: what next? So I was at a university and in the early part of the pandemic, the university was hit hard by just the economic changes that were happening in the country and in our state.

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Job Video Interview Nonprofit 109

Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 2, 2007

They are all made from natural materials, sustainably harvested, and every product has not only a beautiful quality, and you can really see the handmade aspect of the product and at the same time it is stylish and fashionable, and it has a great little story on it that tells you where it comes from, how it was made, how it benefits that community.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

They broadcast and unite women's voices from around the world into a powerful force for change. We unite those voices to accelerate change. I felt an emptiness inside, as a woman, that I wasn't hearing from the teachers that I wanted to about world issues. I've posted an edited transcript below.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2011

While I faced a difficult decision culling winners from the forty focused initiatives described in the entries, I selected the following based on their innovative and courageous approaches to a variety of social issues, from new types of housing for the underserved, to animal welfare, to women’s empowerment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

Meet Karen Bloom who is Chief Advancement Officer for Project Kesher , an organization that trains women to become change-makers across 9 time zones, with leadership programs that are based on Jewish identity building and social activism. She is a nonprofit senior staffer who knows the value of walking at work.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

So you want to change the world, and you know that using images and other visual content is an excellent way to convince people to support your cause. " An example is a campaign sponsored by the Women Empowerment Program at the Hariri Foundation in Lebanon. But what's the best approach to take? How do you decide?

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

So you want to change the world, and you know that using images and other visual content is an excellent way to convince people to support your cause. " An example is a campaign sponsored by the Women Empowerment Program at the Hariri Foundation in Lebanon. But what's the best approach to take? How do you decide?

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Change Lebanon Map China 36

Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 6, 2010

The Somaly Mam organization focuses on rehabilitation for girls who are victims of sex trafficking, and that's a really, really tough issue, but really important. What inspired that, and what are some favorite stories from recent trips? The essence of Dining for Women is connection, education, and self-empowerment. I can't wait.

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Chapter Uganda Giving Interview 57

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. I'll tell you a story about one instance in which the women were using poetry, actually. I'll tell you a story about one instance in which the women were using poetry, actually. I just saw them as heroic.

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Photography Interview Zimbabwe Change 40

Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 29, 2009

It could be the environment, it could be educational issues, political issues, international, national. We were starting to build small circles within the local communities that are all doing really magnificent work in order to create change. I know in my heart I cannot get fixated on the story, I have to experience the soul.

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