Blue Avocado

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Growing Pains Founded in 1926, AbilityFirst (formerly known as the Crippled Children’s Society of Southern California or CCS) was created to help children with polio and other physical disabilities, and I was hired in 1998 to turn around this disability service organization. After five years, we finally balanced the budget.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 9, 2012

He demonstrates why the best managers have a fundamentally different understanding of workplace, company, and team dynamics. My employees are my peers, not my children. Technology offers empowerment, not automation. His insights are based on his interviews of some of the most successful CEOs. Read his article in its entirety.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 7, 2006

In looking at some of the project examples , I found several that focus on women's empowerment and rights in India. Since all of the trainees were married as children, they decided to put together a half-hour video magazine about why child marriage must stop, to show on wide-screen projectors in their surrounding villages.

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

It is estimated that 15 percent of children do not have any shoes to put on their feet, so this is indeed a necessity to children worldwide. Pact’s involvement with Coca-Cola funded several million dollars for female economic empowerment in Southeast Asia.

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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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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 23, 2022

Empowerment is the greatest form of impact. According to the Annual Volunteer Survey, 96% of those who do pro bono projects say they gain skills — including leadership, team building and problem solving — which are all crucial to career growth. Because it’s not something you can give, but rather a way to unlock the potential in others.

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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. Our team left with two things: a renewed commitment to provide support to the anti-trafficking field and a new partner. Non-traditional Groups, Innovative Ideas.

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Tech Soup

MAY 8, 2012

in Oklahoma is one of the frontline organizations that addresses these and other issues in a very interesting way – starting with the children. Heather is pretty proud of the work they’re doing on behalf of Native American children. The American Indian Resource Center, Inc. Helping Native Kids, Using Tech.

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Tech Soup

MAY 28, 2013

Our team was quite impressed with the quality of photos and videos submitted, and all the hard work that was put into each. 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.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 20, 2015

" The organization serves refugee and immigrant survivors of human rights abuses with a team that speaks 25 different languages to meet the cultural and linguistic needs of Mosaic's clients. Mosaic's entire team also wore purple on Monday, Oct. Empowerment, Shelter, and Support. Brighter Tomorrows, Inc.:

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Care2

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

Constituent Empowerment Honorable Mention: Sierra Club and American Cancer Society Winner: Children International Used TeamRaiser to recruit new sponsors and recuited 5,000 sponsors since 2005 and sponsored over 560 children. Created a wall of 5,000 signers photos.

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Convio Social Media Award Advocacy 28

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!?" Doron’s team spends the first few months helping youth open the door again and again. Before their teen years, children are sponges. Read more online and buy your own copy today.

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Teen Arts Classroom Student 25

Media Cause

JUNE 16, 2022

National Urban League —The National Urban League is a historic civil rights organization dedicated to economic empowerment in order to elevate the standard of living in historically underserved urban communities. Diversity Inclusion Toolkit —A curated collection of content for developing inclusive teams. Find yours here.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 28, 2006

We had a very hard decision to make, but we had a team of people who looked at the applications and chose based on geographic diversity, age diversity, and issue diversity. And we got an incredible flood of nominations, and these were joint applications, where someone would recommend a woman, and she would also speak to her leadership.

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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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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

On September 5-6, during the Microsoft evening reception and Idea Accelerator finale at the 2014 Leading Change Summit, 24 brave individuals and teams pitched ideas for social good. The task of narrowing the 24 teams down to three winners was a challenge, but for the 21 ideas that did not win the awards, the journey is not over yet.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 29, 2006

The leadership team includes about nine of us and we're different ages, races, genders, orientations, you name it, and we work together in a democratic fashion. 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.

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