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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. Eighty schools responded, many of which had similar initiatives at their universities, and students from all corners of the country came together at Purdue.

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Research Friday: Generosity Expanded: The Impact!

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government aid, capital investment, philanthropy and remittances. Universities & Colleges (5%). 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

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

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I was already studying agriculture at the University Wisconsin-Madison. 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.

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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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Alexandra Rampy, Guest Post: The Cool Factor About Mobile

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Centers for Disease Control and the University of Georgia’s New Media Institute. In one day, more than 20 students from 6 universities and five AIDS organizations hit the streets with only cellphone video cameras to produce 8 short video messages to encourage youth to be tested for HIV. Cool Factor : Government Goes Mobile.

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

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Kennedy University. 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.

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Solutionary Women: Alli Chagi-Starr, Ilyse Hogue, Melinda Kramer and Reem Rahim

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I ended up discovering a program, at New College of California, a couple of years later, when I was producing arts benefits for social change, especially for women and children living with HIV, this was about 1989 and 1990. One will be for mothers who are mourning the loss of their children who died in gunfights in Oakland. We are a 3.5

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