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Women’s History Month: 11 Nonprofits That Are Advocating For Female Empowerment

Kindful

Their missions are varied—from gender equity in the music industry to helping those affected by incarceration and addiction—but their causes are all worthy of your time and support. Mission: Boulanger Initiative’s mission is to promote music composed by womxn through performance, education, and commissions. Impacting: Music education.

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A Webinar: Measuring the Networked Nonprofit

Care2

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. She has over 15 years of experience as a community organizer and community builder in the United States and South Asia. Ashley has a M.A. Ashley has a M.A.

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Greater Washington Give to the Max Day Training Event

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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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A Review of the Guardian ACTIVATE Summit in London

Tech Soup

we like to buy mobile phones to have fun, talk to friends, listen to music, tweet and connect on Facebook.” “I freak out hearing people talk about using mobiles for ICT for. development in Africa. we in Africa are not different from the rest of the world. “Leadership must be strategic. On the core.

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Using Photography to Change the World: An Interview with Paola Gianturco

Have Fun - Do Good

They were using music, dance, poetry, and storytelling, and they were succeeding. 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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Alli Chagi-Starr, Art in Action/Ella Baker Center, Podcast Interview Transcription

Have Fun - Do Good

They come up with an entire CD of music and poetry and we perform them on the last day of camp, so it gives people a real opportunity, hands-on, to really get out there and share what they've learned. Is it children and literature? So we're bringing a lot of elements together, the innerpersonal the activist. That's just the reality.

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