Givinga

JANUARY 26, 2021

We’ve all faced the impact of COVID-19 – from job loss to home-schooling our children to mental health concerns, or much worse – but in keeping with the resiliency of the human spirit, the scale and scope of the pandemic has driven innovation. A look back at 2020 shows that unprecedented challenges often lead to unexpected opportunity.

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Blue Avocado

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

So in light of these (admittedly somewhat harrowing) tangible realities of board service, I want to take a look at a particular case study to see how we might redefine board accountability away from abstraction and towards tangible goals for what an effective board can look like. After five years, we finally balanced the budget.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 25, 2013

The goal of these case studies is to raise awareness of the impact these nonprofits are making in South Africa. The Media and Training Centre for Health specializes in the design and development of community learning models that promote health and empowerment in marginalized communities. Children and Education. Art and Media.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 3, 2013

With the goal of promoting braille literacy, this landmark meeting brought together braille experts from around the world to Perkins’ campus in Watertown, Massachusetts. And today, braille is not being taught to most blind children. and critical for the inclusion and empowerment of people in developing countries.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 23, 2022

Empowerment is the greatest form of impact. It’s one of the most effective ways for companies to achieve social impact goals. Because it’s not something you can give, but rather a way to unlock the potential in others. Effective pro bono volunteer programs — also known as skills-based volunteering — are built upon this idea.

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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.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 17, 2013

And we each have specific interests in increasing access, connection, and empowerment of marginalized people. We champion a historic house museum for hosting a soup kitchen, a children''s museum for tackling family wellness in low-income housing, or an arts organization for writing poems with convicts. We all work for nonprofits.

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Tech Soup

MAY 7, 2014

Human trafficking survivors are better able to access the kinds of resources necessary to get safe and stable housing, social services, and economic empowerment. In our case, one of the finalists was the human trafficking housing locator from Polaris Project and the New Jersey Department of Children and Families.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 7, 2022

This foundation supports children, families, and communities as they strengthen and create conditions that propel vulnerable children to achieve success as individuals and as contributors to the larger community and society. The post Funding & Grant Resources For Women’s Empowerment Organizations appeared first on Bloomerang.

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Kindful

MARCH 5, 2021

This foundation supports children, families, and communities as they strengthen and create conditions that propel vulnerable children to achieve success as individuals and as contributors to the larger community and society. The post 2021 Funding & Grant Resources For Women’s Empowerment Organizations appeared first on Kindful.

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Tech Soup

MAY 28, 2013

So, we want to help match your intended efforts with the right tools to achieve your goals. Hearing what those children want to be when they grow up motivated me to share the story with as many people as possible so that they would be able to realize their dreams. Here at TechSoup, we're on a mission to empower you to tell yours.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2011

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. Their use of Facebook was instrumental in winning Sears’ Dads Making a Difference Contest.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 17, 2016

If we can help other sympatico organizations achieve their goals--while advancing our goals and mission along the way--that's powerful. We need more empowerment in this world, and these institutions offer it. They are funded primarily by foundations (or are foundations themselves).

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Tech Soup

JULY 8, 2011

” Ricken Patel of Awaaz.org talking about how focus on technology many times eclipses the social goal. ” Rakesh Rajani, Tweweza, talking about the potential dramatic impact of the mobile phone in Africa in the next five years. “Vision is just as important as technology.” ” Ken. preoccupied with technology.

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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. Connecting personal wisdom to effect positive change is our goal. Each card is a piece of art in my mind. What is the path that brought you to this work?

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 8, 2007

Right now the CHAG his planning on asking the Malian health system for mosquito nets for all pregnant women and children under 5 in a community of 1400. The majority of development projects act on tight time frames with large budgets and material goals. Empowerment” is a word that has become completely cheapened through overuse.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 6, 2016

One of the nonprofits that inspires me locally here in Santa Cruz is a youth empowerment and food justice organization called "Food, What!?" Before their teen years, children are sponges. Because teens are still developing of their identities and goals, they don’t just care whether something is relevant to them now.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 28, 2006

The first is our International Strategy Meetings, where we convene our founding women from 26 different countries, who come together and really examine what the local issues are, what are the global trends, what is the work that they can do in partnership, and they really map out their plan and their goals and their work for the coming year.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 2, 2007

For them it is a viable business which is part of our goal, is that we want them to see this like any other business decision, but at the same time that they make a business decision they can do a good thing with it. So women cook, clean and take care of their children, and these are all uncompensated activities. We believe.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

It was my birthday and the culmination of a campaign to raise money for Cambodian children that I used an action learning project for the students. We actually eat chocolate in class as part of the exercise! The book describes their strategy which underpins the framework for the Dragonfly Effect: Stay focused: develop a single goal.

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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. We are NOT a shelter.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 13, 2009

At the recent Online Nonprofit Technology Conference , Edward Granger-Happ of Save the Children, shared some valuable insights on how nonprofits can work towards the sweet spot at the intersection of technology and mission by looking at the ever-important starting place: strategy and vision. Look to the future in the Field and the schools.

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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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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

Starter Google Analytics Dashboard for Nonprofits - Kerry Meyers Prepare a simple dashboard for nonprofit metrics -- acquisition, cultivation/engagement, solicitation, retention; Explain in easy steps who to set goals and implement snippets in donation forms of leading providers. The goal: greater open rates.

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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. My goal, as Seane Corne, was, "I want to bring 20 people to Cambodia, and I want to raise $500,000."

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 29, 2006

You just have to keep planting and just got to hope that other people will come along after you to water those seeds and to know that the trees our for our children's children. Is it children and literature? Ultimately whether or not you achieve the goal, the event will come and go. That's just the reality.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 2, 2008

They wanted to create a literacy program for themselves because now there was a school where their children could go to school, but they felt embarrassed that they couldn't support their children because they themselves were illiterate. Women and their children are disproportionately victims of outside violence as well.

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