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How Mentorship Can Break Down Racial Divides

Saleforce Nonprofit

It was updated for National Mentoring Month in January 2023. I had always been an informal mentor, but when I moved to Florida, I joined Big Brothers Big Sisters as a volunteer, a ‘Big Sister’. We’ve seen how social justice and unrest have pulled our nation apart. *This post was originally published on February 11th, 2021.

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On the Future of Braille: Thoughts by Radical Braille Advocates

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Betsy Beaumon I recently had the honor to speak at the first-ever Braille Summit , hosted on June 19-21, 2013 by the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (NLS) and Perkins School for the Blind. and critical for the inclusion and empowerment of people in developing countries. We’d love to meet you there!

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Get Help in Telling the Story of Your Nonprofit's Impact

Tech Soup

Naples, Florida: #Storymakers 2017: Creating Images and Video with Adobe Spark. Port Charlotte, Florida: How to Tell Your Nonprofit Story with Spark and TechSoup's StoryMakers 2017. Orlando, Florida: Microsoft Gives Back: Community, Education, and Philanthropy. Orlando, Florida: Tech4Good Orlando — September Meetup.

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Nonprofit Organizational Culture Eats Big Data for Lunch

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Culture of Agile: There is empowerment of people to interact and collaborate that allows them to adapt and respond to a changing environment. His views on the philanthropic world have appeared in The New York Times , The Washington Post , USA Today , The Los Angeles Times , and on National Public Radio.

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School Choice and Blackbaud Software

sgEngage

Arizona reports that its Empowerment Scholarship Account has aided more than 77,000 students at $4,000–9,000 each with even higher amounts going to students with disabilities. Florida has among the most state-funded programs benefitting private and independent school students. How do you track the ever-changing landscape?

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Women of Color Resource Center: An Interview with Anisha Desai

Have Fun - Do Good

The Women of Color Resource Center has been around for a little over 17 years and we are a pretty impressive place, I think, because we are one of the very few places in the nation, and globally, that holds the interest of women of color, and girls of color as a central piece of our work. I ended up in it from way back, from where I grew up.