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Ways We Can All Help Advance Women’s and Girls’ Empowerment

Connection Cafe

Women’s and girls’ empowerment is a sweeping topic, defined and shaped by family beliefs and cultural norms in the community and country where one lives. And while education and financial independence are critical steps to empowerment, they are merely two pieces of a much bigger and far more complicated story.

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How to Overcome a Victim Mindset in Order to Better Serve Your Nonprofit and Your Community

Bloomerang

Read the previous posts on overcoming the fear that your story doesn’t matter and the idea that success is selfish. . You can instead embrace a mindset that benefits you and, by extension, the community you’re hoping to serve. . If you feel like you’re in the survivor mindset, I want to be a voice of encouragement for you.

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“Black & Proud”

M+R

It’s a spin on James Brown’s 1968 hit, “Say It Loud (I’m Black and I’m Proud),” which became an unofficial anthem of the Civil Rights movement; but, in its current context, is focused on the pride associated with also identifying as a member of the LGBTQIA community.

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Celebrate International Women’s Day 2021

Forum One

As we highlight our staff who are raising their hands high to reinforce and show solidarity on social media today, we also wanted to highlight our clients doing important work moving the needle forward for women’s equality and empowerment. Amplifying the voices of female peacemakers. Telling stories through images of empowerment.

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How Mentorship Can Break Down Racial Divides

Saleforce Nonprofit

But now, as the Director of Marketing for Big Brothers Big Sisters of America, I have the privilege of telling stories of empowerment and resilience. There are 230+ Big Brother Big Sisters agencies located in 5,000 communities in all 50 states. Wouldn’t it be nice to see how to rebuild that, through open dialogue and listening?

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Nonprofit Public Relations For Beginners: How To Gain More Attention In Less Time

Kindful

What story will you tell? One of the hottest buzzwords in nonprofit communications right now is storytelling. This is because story is one of the most effective forms of communication available; it’s a concrete way to demonstrate your mission and create real connection with the audience. In other words…. Who will tell it?

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Building Community: Who / How / Why

Museum 2.0

We invited community members in, to be active contributors, collaborators, and co-creators in our museum space. They talked about community building. I don’t think there is a way to directly build community. I don’t think there is a way to directly build community. WHO (slides 3-23) "Community” is not an abstraction.

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