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Let’s All Pull Together: Reflections from Harambee 2023

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Hairston, vice president of institutional advancement and development at Miles College, said, “[This report] will be one of those seminal documents that will allow us to get in rooms we might have been excluded from.” Panelists from Brazil, Kenya, and Jamaica discussed the importance of empowering communities in the African diaspora.

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Client Spotlight: National Society of Black Engineers

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The NSBE is proud to have produced top thought leaders in the development of the STEM pipeline and corporate diversity and inclusion. The first international chapter was established in London in 1992 and the NSBE has since expanded to Ghana, Nigeria, Canada, Germany, China, Jamaica, Trinidad, and more. Background.

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iLaw: Cyber Strategy for a Developing Nation

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I was particularly eager to hear the afternoon lecture , Cyber Strategy for a Developing Nation , by Charles Nesson at iLaw. In 1998, during the embryonic stages of the project, this focus turned to a concept called "Reverence for Life," a non-demonational philsophy of self-development which had taken root in Jamaica's prisons.

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International Human Rights Day 2011

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Our Martus team trained two new partners focused on rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex (LGBTI) people : Jamaica Forum for Lesbians, All-Sexuals and Gays , or J-FLAG and AIDS-Free World. We identified important opportunities for developing a substantive, quantitative-based sexual violence research agenda.

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Boston Media Makers Media

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The meetings take place the first Sunday of the month in Jamaica Plain. David said that they do this type of work for select clients and that it was a smart way to develop a service. The Boston Media Makers is a community of practice consisting of people in the Boston area who are making (new) media. He noted that Blip.TV

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