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Nonprofit Technology Celebrates International Women's Day

Tech Soup

That year, the United Nations declared International Women's Year , and began sponsoring International Women's Day every March 8. Catalina Escobar , executive director of MAKAIA in Colombia. Nicole Ozer , director of technology and civil liberties policy at ACLU. I just want to mention a few of them. Law and Advocacy.

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How Nonprofits Have Reframed Their Messaging in the Wake of COVID-19

Connection Cafe

50CAN is an organization that drives the creation of stronger, more equitable schools in every state and community within its national network. That network supports local leaders in improving education policy through advocacy. As a national organization, it has just over 4,700 local clubs in nearly every community across the country.

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Fueling Progress Towards Gender Equality and the 2030 Global Goals

Connection Cafe

Pulling together the facts, figures and stories that tell us where progress is being made and where it is lagging, we believe we will be better able to inspire real change and firm commitments from governments to really change the laws and policies and budget decisions that hold girls and women back. . The future for Equal Measures 2030.

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How a Multi-Sectoral Partnership is Fueling Progress Towards Gender Equality and the 2030 Global Goals

Connection Cafe

Pulling together the facts, figures and stories that tell us where progress is being made and where it is lagging, we believe we will be better able to inspire real change and firm commitments from governments to really change the laws and policies and budget decisions that hold girls and women back. . The future for Equal Measures 2030.

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Reflections on the Science Center World Congress

Museum 2.0

Casual discussions were steeped in government policies, national literacy rates, and worldwide attitudes towards science. It was not unusual for a person to pull out a document showing national dropout rates for their country in the middle of a cocktail party. And these conversations weren't exclusive to the program events.

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Guatemalan Police Archive Finds Evidence in Disappearance Case

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

A Guest Beneblog by Tamy Guberek (Benetech HRDAG team member from Colombia) There is important news this month from our partners at the Guatemalan National Police Archive, which has worked since 2006 with Benetech’s Human Rights Data Analysis Group (HRDAG). Photo by Prensa Libre.

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Lessons on Policymakers, Gender Equality, and Data

Connection Cafe

Last week at the United Nations General Assembly , Equal Measures 2030 launched a multi-country policymaker survey that explored perceptions of progress on gender-related issues and access to and use of data to inform decisions. Gender equality is a cross-cutting and must not be considered as a single policy issue in the eyes of governments.

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