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Changing lives through financial empowerment

ASU Lodestar Center

As a society, we are constantly being bombarded with advertisements, all pulling us to spend money. It has been amazing to see the impact financial literacy can have on a person, and just how crucial financial literacy is on the future of our young people. Where would they have learned about money management?

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Award Winning Combinations for Social Change

Care2

The prize money aside, what impressed me most about the winners is the creativity that each has shown in combining multiple disciplines. Cristi Hegranes, Global Press Institute – Global Press Institute (GPI) advances both responsible global journalism and community empowerment by offering journalism training to women around the world.

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Bringing Millions of Books to Billions of People: Making the Book Truly Accessible

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Literacy and access to knowledge underpins just about every social good, from education, to economic development, to health, to women’s empowerment, democracy and respect for human rights. At the end, I would have paid any amount of money for this new product. It was a magical hour.

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The Global Fund for Women: An Interview with Kavita Ramdas

Have Fun - Do Good

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. What could I do to raise more money for you? That isn't the case in the developing world.

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