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SAP Gives Back

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Most nonprofits (understandably) spend the majority of their funding on accomplishing their mission, meaning there's not always enough left over for technology investments. In Ghana, SAP is using their technology and volunteers in partnership with a leading NGO to help women create thriving businesses through the harvesting of shea nuts.

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Solutionary Women: Nancy Gruver

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Nancy is also the Executive Director of the nonprofit Dads and Daughters and the author of How To Say It To Girls. In 2002, DADs asked me to become the Executive Director. Raising the funds to reach as many people as possible. Describe the work that Dads and Daughters does. DADs makes the world safe and fair for our daughters.

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Empowering Refugees: Interview with Kjerstin Erickson of FORGE

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Erickson founded FORGE (Facilitating Opportunities for Refugee Growth and Empowerment) in 2003 when she was a 20 year-old junior studying public policy at Stanford University. Now 26, Erickson is still FORGE's Executive Director. He did his degree in NGO Management, and will be graduating this coming June. I had a lot to learn.

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TechCamp: Empowering Women Through Technology

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“Anyone who works for the State Department knows that they work for women and for the advancement and empowerment of women,” said Alec Ross , Secretary Clinton’s Special Advisor for Innovation, with pride at the opening of TechCamp Tel Aviv. TechCamp: Empowering women through technology - guest post by Ma’ayan Alexander.

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What is your “Individual Social Responsibility (ISR)?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

After finishing a four-day intensive training in Delhi for the Networked NGO , I stayed on a few days in India to visit colleague, Rufina Fernandez, who I met when she was the CEO of the Nasscom Foundation when she brought me to India to speak at the leadership conference and teach workshops back in 2010.

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