Everyaction

JUNE 20, 2018

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. Their model of empowerment amplifies the voices of refugee communities, allowing them to act as their own champions. border, all during the ongoing Syrian refugee crisis.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

At the age of 13, my grandfather left his country and ended up as a refugee in America. Despite harsh conditions, he made a new life in a new country, but never forgot his homeland. Seventy-five percent are women and children. Local organizations are working to provide support, training and services to these women.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 17, 2013

I was with two close friends who work in social service organizations focusing on homelessness and criminal justice respectively. We all work for nonprofits. And we each have specific interests in increasing access, connection, and empowerment of marginalized people. Museum work is mostly non-contact.

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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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ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 18, 2018

I have always been a very aspirational person, and I have always aspired to do something great with my life. At BBBS, my work has consistently been about engaging and empowering others. The core of this work has been about opening people's eyes to their potential so that they can open a child’s eyes to their own.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 5, 2008

There were significant numbers of young women working away at all of these tasks. Another part of Aravind's systematic approach is recruiting rural girls to work at Aurolab (just like they recruit them to work as assistants in the eye hospital). The company is all about restoring sight and eye care.

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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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Tech Soup

JUNE 19, 2015

Like Arjun, they are deprived of treatment and the chance to build a life of dignity for themselves. Not only does WORTH work towards creating a barrier-free world for the physically challenged, it does this work with the help of people who have different abilities, creating a circle of empowerment.

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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. Areas served: US. Kellogg Foundation. Areas served: Baltimore, Chicago, Hawai?i, The Patrina Foundation.

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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. Areas served: US. Kellogg Foundation. Areas served: Baltimore, Chicago, Hawai?i, The Patrina Foundation.

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NTEN

AUGUST 25, 2009

Or, less monster-centric, we may simply lack the requisite know-how to build a bridge that works.). " With a finite amount of money earmarked for digital inclusion programs, let alone development work in general, it seems consensus can be difficult to build. " Few people working at nonprofits would likely argue with that.

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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!?" I firmly believe that all people have something meaningful to contribute to our communities, cultural work, and society at large--including youth. He works with kids who rarely show up to school.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

Over the last year, the work of Traveling Postcards keeps crossing my path, so I asked its founder, Caroline Lovell, to share with us: How Traveling Postcards works The path that brought her to this work Her favorite Traveling Postcards success story How we can get involved with Traveling Postcards I've posted her answers below.

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Media Cause

JUNE 16, 2022

Working with land, they bring people together to design and practice strategies for healing, health and reparative economics. ?. —Young, Black & Lit was started by book lovers who understand the critical importance of reading and representation in the lives of children. The Death and Life of Marsha P. Mudbound (Movie).

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 28, 2006

Melinda Kramer: Women's Global Green Action Network is an international organization that is linking and empowering women working in environmental sustainability around the world. We also take part in trainings that are relevant to most of their work. We do it in a number of ways.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 2, 2007

.-- Priya Haji This Christmas I bought a lot of my gifts from World of Good , a Bay Area company that creates opportunities for hundreds of artisan cooperatives around the world to share their work by serving as a bridge to the U.S. So women cook, clean and take care of their children, and these are all uncompensated activities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2012

I was not disappointed when I met Rajen Varada who has worked as a ICT for development professional for organizations like the UN. Through his nonprofit, “ Technology for People ,” he has dedicated his life to girls (and boys) empowerment through technology. The director told him to report it to the police.

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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. So what can we do? Get ahead of the change.

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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. I found out that the kindergartner I'll be working with likes pizza, the color green, pirates, sports and dinosaurs. I find it helps keep life in perspective. A couple things to know about working in the public schools.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 2, 2013

That said, in 2012 I had the opportunity to travel to Africa and Asia and from those travel experiences three themes emerged that inspired the selection of this year’s nonprofits: 1) Women’s and girls empowerment; 2) Conservation of wildlife and wild lands; and 3) Access to medical care. Wildlife SOS :: @ WildlifeSOS.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 29, 2009

During our conversation, Seane talked about what inspired the creation of Off the Mat, Into the World, her trip to Cambodia, the connection between your inner work and your outer work, and the tools Off the Mat, Into the World uses to help people determine how they are being called to be of service.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 28, 2007

And, at a time when the international women's movement is facing challenges, it would be great to have a reminder that good news is going on, that good work is being done, that progress is happening. Britt Bravo: In so many of the groups you profiled, the women were using the arts for education, empowerment, or healing.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 29, 2006

And I work here at Ella Baker Center. It's really an honor to be working here doing some amazing work with a new program, Reclaim the Future. He came and talked about affirmative action, we became friends at that point, and started to learn about the different work that we were each doing.

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