ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

A cross-sector partnership is an alliance between organizations from two or more sectors that commit themselves to working together to develop and implement a specific project. NPOs and corporations have come together because of the need for additional funding resources and new strategies for organizational approaches.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 3, 2013

In what is known as the “ braille provision ,” the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) of 2004 mandates that the teams who help write educational plans for students with disabilities presume that all blind and visually impaired children should be taught Braille unless it is determined to be inappropriate.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 10, 2007

Starting this week, you can vote for the best NetSquared Innovation Fund Award nominated projects until Saturday, April 14th at Noon PDT. You can cast your ballot for the projects that you think most effectively use the social web for social change. The complete list of projects can be found here. Avatar Action Center.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 7, 2022

The following organizations currently offer grant and funding opportunities for women and/or accept letters of inquiry or proposals. New Venture Fund. Vermont Women’s Fund. Global Fund for Women. The Moriah Fund. Seventh Generation Fund for Indigenous Peoples. Wallace Global Fund.

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Kindful

MARCH 5, 2021

The following organizations currently offer grant and funding opportunities for women and/or accept letters of inquiry or proposals. New Venture Fund. Vermont Women’s Fund. Global Fund for Women. The Moriah Fund. Seventh Generation Fund for Indigenous Peoples. Wallace Global Fund.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 10, 2016

The royalties that I earn from my books have been donated to nonprofits to support women’s and girl’s empowerment work and given this past week, I am all the more convinced of the need to support such programs. I am honored to be an advisor to WAKE, whose mission is to amplify the work of women leading change globally.

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Cambodia Empowerment Nonprofit Training 50

Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 8, 2007

--Caitlin Cohen of the Sigida Keneyali Project. Below is an e-interview with another woman making a difference in Mali, Caitlin Cohen, one of two US coordinators of the Sigida Keneyali Project. What is the Sigida Keneyali Project? How did you get involved in the Sigida Keneyali Project?

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Tech Soup

JULY 8, 2011

data and governance, profiting from social change projects, and access to data and tools. ” Jeremy Heimans, Purpose, Australia, while he argued that micro payments are a better funding model than plain charity, for social change. Broadly, the topics discussed included democracy, value of. On the core. On the core.

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Activities Active Activism Review 47

Tech Soup

MAY 8, 2012

in Oklahoma is one of the frontline organizations that addresses these and other issues in a very interesting way – starting with the children. The organization is mainly funded through federal grants from the U.S. Heather is pretty proud of the work they’re doing on behalf of Native American children.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 20, 2015

NNEDV has been an invaluable subject matter expert, collaborator, and friend to TechSoup's Caravan Studios as we develop the SafeNight app , a tool individuals can use to fund emergency shelter as a tax-deductible donation. Empowerment, Shelter, and Support. On October 3, it held a Purple Paw Project festival at a local park.

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Awareness Iowa Organization Texas 36

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 17, 2016

The partners we work with--to catalyze projects within and beyond our walls--are just as important as our visitors to fulfilling our mission. In behind-the-scenes mode, we could devote more resources to supporting projects beyond our building, content area, and program formats.

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San Diego Work Museum Model 20

Care2

NOVEMBER 19, 2008

Constituent Empowerment. Winner: Children International. Used TeamRaiser to recruit new sponsors and recuited 5,000 sponsors since 2005 and sponsored over 560 children. Winner: Ploughshares Fund. Honorable Mention: CauseForce and Project Bread - The Walk for Hunger. Created a wall of 5,000 signers' photos.

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NTEN

AUGUST 25, 2009

The mission statement of One Laptop per Child is artfully constructed: "To create educational opportunities for the world's poorest children by providing each child with a rugged, low-cost, low-power, connected laptop with content and software designed for collaborative, joyful, self-empowered learning." What Can We Do, Then?

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Digital Laptop Mali Myspace 74

Care2

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

Constituent Empowerment Honorable Mention: Sierra Club and American Cancer Society Winner: Children International Used TeamRaiser to recruit new sponsors and recuited 5,000 sponsors since 2005 and sponsored over 560 children. Created a wall of 5,000 signers photos.

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Convio Award Social Media Advocacy 28

Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

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. We are also funding very special after school art classes in Afghanistan through our partnership with Trust In Education. We have come a long way!

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Costa Rica Interview Afghanistan Artist 60

Saleforce Nonprofit

MARCH 8, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic is disproportionately affecting women and girls around the world, which threatens the gains made in the past decades in advancing women’s economic empowerment, health, rights, and safety. She has been working with Women Win in various capacities since 2011 on a range of projects and programs both in the U.S.

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Media Cause

JUNE 16, 2022

Black Youth Project — BYP has various local chapters. The Black Youth Project examines the attitudes, resources, and culture of the young, urban black millennial, exploring how these factors and others influence their decision-making, norms, and behavior in critical domains such as sex, health, and politics. . Find yours here.

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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. The director told him to report it to the police. The man denied it and left.

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India Social Homeless 124

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. Now that’s social impact!

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Puerto Rico West Virginia Ideas Fort Worth 96

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 23, 2007

Successful fund raisers for social causes have known that for a long time. A recent series of studies by psychologists provides the research that proves it -- they have found that fund-raising appeals do best when they are crafted around a single gripping image. It uses images to promote social and humanitarian causes.

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Photography Costa Rica Nicaragua Change 50

Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 13, 2009

Every week I get to go in and read with the same two children for a half an hour each in the school library. Organizations like these teach everything from sports, to science, to the arts, to girl empowerment. Tuesday was my first day volunteering with the "reading partners" program at my neighborhood public elementary school.

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

The Middle East Children’s Alliance (MECA) works to protect the rights and improve the lives of children in the Middle East through aid, empowerment and education. There were guards stationed everywhere throughout the camp and when she came back she knew that she wanted to do something for the children there.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 29, 2009

SC: I'd started working with an organization called YouthAIDS which provides services and products to children worldwide who are affected by the HIV/AIDS crisis. The other thing that Off the Mat, Into the World does is that we create and model our own outreach projects, but on a grander scale. I raised a lot of money.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 28, 2007

She is donating 100 percent of the royalties from the book to the Global Fund for Women. Britt Bravo: In so many of the groups you profiled, the women were using the arts for education, empowerment, or healing. The children are ages 6-16, and they're making huge strides by leading a national movement against child rape in Zimbabwe.

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Photography Interview Zimbabwe Change 40

Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 29, 2006

Britt: Tell us a little bit about your work here, like what does your day look like, what kind of brought you to this work, for people who are like, "Oh, I want to work in a project like that!" They create list servs, they create projects together. Kind of like what brought you here, what skills and things like that?

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