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Celebrate International Women’s Day 2021

Forum One

During Women’s History Month, we are excited to celebrate International Women’s Day on March 8, 2021. As we highlight our staff who are raising their hands high to reinforce and show solidarity on social media today, we also wanted to highlight our clients doing important work moving the needle forward for women’s equality and empowerment.

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Ways We Can All Help Advance Women’s and Girls’ Empowerment

Connection Cafe

Women’s and girls’ empowerment is a sweeping topic, defined and shaped by family beliefs and cultural norms in the community and country where one lives. Some people associate the empowerment of women and girls primarily with challenges faced in communities where poverty and lack of access to education determine one’s level of empowerment.

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March Cause Awareness: Women’s History Month

Qgiv

The commission selected the week of March 8th for their celebration to correspond with International Women’s Day. By 1981, the celebration had spread far and wide, enough that President Jimmy Carter officially made the week of March 8th, 1980 National Women’s History Week. Donate to support the Women Business Collaborative here.

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12 Early Adopters of the.NGO and.ONG Domains

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Mission: To improve access and quality of education for 4 million children living in underserved communities in India. Mission: To help eradicate extreme poverty through community development projects in urban sanitation, water filtration, health, alternative energy, and economic empowerment. World Vision International ● wvi.ngo.

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5 Organizations To Support On World Refugee Day

Everyaction

In June of 2018, this mandate feels more pressing than ever, as thousands of families seeking asylum are torn apart and children are held in cages at the U.S. Refugees International According to. Refugees International was founded in 1979 as a citizens’ movement to protect Indochinese refugees. World Relief.

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A Webinar: Measuring the Networked Nonprofit

Care2

Additionally, she has been active in MomsRising's national and state campaigns for fair pay, paid sick days, paid family leave and breastfeeding promotion. She specializes in the areas of community engagement, deliberation and empowerment. She lives in Berkeley with her husband and is a mother of two preschool-age children.

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Funding & Grant Resources For Women’s Empowerment Organizations

Bloomerang

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. They support activities and movements that are global or national in scope. Areas served: US.