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. NNEDV has a packed month this October. Brighter Tomorrows, Inc.:

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Tech Soup

JULY 8, 2011

“[In Africa] the race is on to find what mobiles can do in areas as disparate as public health, governance and education.” ” Jeremy Heimans, Purpose, Australia, while he argued that micro payments are a better funding model than plain charity, for social change. “Vision is just as important as technology.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2011

Close the circle with thank yous, public acknowledgement, and light touches that aren’t asks. Father McKenna Center : The McKenna Center serves the needs of the poor, men, women and children through a variety of programs funded by generous individuals, religious orders and institutions, foundations and government grants.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 17, 2016

They are funded primarily by foundations (or are foundations themselves). We need more empowerment in this world, and these institutions offer it. Children's Museum of Pittsburgh is a terrific place to visit AND a leading force in diverse regional projects to support youth development. Do we have to choose one or the other?

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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." Money, it's a drag.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 8, 2007

Practically, what this means is that the principle component of our program is a Community Health Action Committee (CHAG), responsible for designing, implementing, and evaluating their own public health and social development projects. The CHAG will manage the funding so that it doesn’t fall victim to corruption as it did in the past.

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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.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 12, 2022

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. Realizing Children’s Right to Education.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 13, 2009

Tuesday was my first day volunteering with the "reading partners" program at my neighborhood public elementary school. 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.

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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. All of the photos on the site are submitted by the public.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JULY 12, 2022

Before the global pandemic, intergenerational poverty and entrenched patterns of inequality dampened the future livelihoods of millions of children and their families across the globe. CRUS’ Innovation and Growth Fund , launched in 2021, will contribute significantly to the global movement to break the cycle of intergenerational poverty.

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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. This challenge benefited the Cambodian Children's Fund out of Cambodia. Of course, it came down to, as it should, funding. We'll supply the funding.

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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

APRIL 2, 2008

Kavita Ramdas, President and CEO, Global Fund for Women. Kavita Ramdas is the President and CEO of the nonprofit, the Global Fund for Women. I think it's worth it (: Kavita Ramdas: The Global Fund for Women is the largest independent, publicly supported grant-making foundation to advance women's human rights internationally.

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