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

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Mission: The mission of Crossroads for Women is to provide comprehensive, integrated services to empower women emerging from incarceration to achieve safe, healthy, and fulfilling lives in the community, for themselves and their children. Impacting: Empowerment through music education. Impacting: Incarceration and addiction.

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Funding And Grant Resources For Nonprofits Focused On Youth Programs

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Many foundations focus much of their philanthropy work on youth empowerment—and for good reason. The foundations on this list are just a few of the many that understand the importance that youth empowerment plays in helping young people from all backgrounds grow and excel during this critical stage of their life. Kellogg Foundation.

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On the Future of Braille: Thoughts by Radical Braille Advocates

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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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