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Client Spotlight: National Society of Black Engineers

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The National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) is a student-governed, nonprofit organization headquartered in Alexandria, Virginia with chapters at universities all over the world. The organization now boasts over 790 chapters worldwide. View this post on Instagram.

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Research Friday: Generosity Expanded: The Impact!

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government aid, capital investment, philanthropy and remittances. 3 This study reports that a change is occurring; the long-held perception that the reduction in global poverty is primarily driven by government aid (from the U.S. Close behind are China ($12.2 billion from $226.2 This support consists of four sources: U.S.

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Interview with Temra Costa, Author of Farmer Jane: Women Changing the Way We Eat

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Because we're becoming so dependent on product from China and other countries, it's imperative that we have more farmers. As the government funding for parks declines, they're looking for people to care-take that land, essentially. So, that's one of my next things is, do I want to farm, and how is that going to happen?

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Alison Lowndes: Helping to care for children in Kenya

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

She caught my attention because she founded an organization that works with orphaned and disabled children in Kenya. She lived in China for 8 months with her 2 young children. Assigning volunteers to work with vetted organisations allows us to fully verify the organization's commitment to the children.

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Balancing People, Profit & Planet: An Interview with Reem Rahim of Numi Tea

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So, we work with a village in China that grows the bamboo along the river, and every two years that bamboo shoots up about 20 feet, and they have a whole way of working with the trees there where they'll just cut them down, use them, and it will replenish itself. They have also put together a child care center. We are proud to do that.

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Alexandra Rampy, Guest Post: The Cool Factor About Mobile

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Organization(s) : Save the Children and Verizon Wireless. Objective : Provide lifesaving assistance during the natural disasters that occurred in China and Myanmar. Cool Factor : Government Goes Mobile. Cool Factor : Assists during times of emergency. Organization(s) : Meir Panim (Network of Soup Kitchens in Israel).

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Kevin Danaher of Global Exchange Talks about the Global Citizen Center

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government tells them, or what the corporate media tells them. I envision a world where there are no starving children, where there are no children without shoes, where there is no pregnant mother who can't get access to decent health care, no clear-cut forest, no endangered species. We do that in a number of ways.

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