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

Saleforce Nonprofit

Mission: Empowerment of children and youth and mobilize for and enable the restoration of 1 trillion new trees worldwide. Plant for the Planet. Trees are one of the most powerful tools we have to combat the climate crisis. Their platform allows people to support local, community organizations easily and all in one place.

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Fostering Innovation and Creativity in Youth Through App Development

Tech Soup

awareness and skills development in children, teens, and young adults. Organizations are helping to facilitate these conversations and learnings globally. greater access for youth and foster empowerment through skills. Today, these items are accessible to a larger array of youth. either in their own home.

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A Review of the Guardian ACTIVATE Summit in London

Tech Soup

should enable power in members and facilitate a global impact of highly local activity.” “I freak out hearing people talk about using mobiles for ICT for. development in Africa. we in Africa are not different from the rest of the world. ” Ory Okolloh, Google’s Head of Policy and Government Relations, Africa.

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Does the Most Powerful Work Live Onstage or Behind the Scenes?

Museum 2.0

The more my organization has become focused on community engagement, the more we've balanced being experience producers with being experience co-creators/facilitators. We need more empowerment in this world, and these institutions offer it. Is it more effective to produce X yourself or empower others to produce X in their own contexts?

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Traveling Postcards: Interview with Founder, Caroline Lovell

Have Fun - Do Good

Empowerment for our participants comes from connecting to an inner wisdom that is often kept hidden from public view, but is a place of extraordinary innate strength and well being. Anyone can become a facilitator and host a workshop in their community, and we encourage everyone to get involved. First of all, you can make a postcard!

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6 Steps to Zeroing Out Child Labour Globally

Saleforce Nonprofit

When children can not achieve their full potential, it tears at a countries’ social fabric and directly diminishes its economic growth. This means that every one in 10 children age five and over in the world today are trapped in child labour. Child labour is a violation of every child’s right to a childhood.

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Women's Global Green Action Network: An Interview with Melinda Kramer

Have Fun - Do Good

From her Berkeley-based office, Melinda Kramer facilitates an international network of women leaders. Melinda: One of the interesting things about working within women's empowerment as it relates to environmental sustainability is I've really learned the ways that we talk about environmentalism is as this siloed issue.

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