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Celebrating TechSoup's Talented and Extraordinary Customer Service Team

Tech Soup

" Of her favorite charitable interests, she says simply, "Anything dealing with children pulls at my heart strings." She recalls once talking to a woman who was trying to take over the IT role in her organization even though she had no IT experience. She says, "A good spades game is always a good time."

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Empowering Women Citizen Journalists: An Interview with Cristi Hegranes

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"Now, 18 months later, all of Juana's children are in school. For example, when women have this kind of specific skill-set training, they are more likely to have less children, to keep the children they do have in school, to be able to provide access to medical care, and things like that. I have a story that you have to hear.'"

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society - Untitled Article

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The Voices of Davos This meeting is all about conversations. I just want to share some of the voices I've heard so far this week. Paolo Coelho (Brazilian author, The Alchemist ) talked about what we aren't willing to talk about: the role of love in what we do. These are based on my contemporaneous notes.

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Four Ways to Transform Organizational Culture to Advance Access, Equity, and Justice

Saleforce Nonprofit

Before the global pandemic, intergenerational poverty and entrenched patterns of inequality dampened the future livelihoods of millions of children and their families across the globe. Previously, he served in leadership roles at The Bronx Defenders and The Fortune Society.

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Support Women Survivors of War with $27/month

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A month ago I listened to Christine Karumba, the Country Director for Women for Women International in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, tell Honorata's story on the Voices on Genocide Prevention podcast. There she found her five children who had survived by the kindness of strangers. And one of their roles is to bring their voice."

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The Global Fund for Women: An Interview with Kavita Ramdas

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They wanted to create a literacy program for themselves because now there was a school where their children could go to school, but they felt embarrassed that they couldn't support their children because they themselves were illiterate. Women and their children are disproportionately victims of outside violence as well.

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