ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

It is hard to express in one blog my entire week-long experience with nonprofit leaders from Japan, Syria, Uganda, Nigeria and different parts of the United States at the American Express Leadership Academy 2.0 Prior to this role, Elena had worked in the global financial services industry for more than 20 years. at the Aspen Institute.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 19, 2009

After meeting her at the Global Engagement Summer last spring, I knew I wanted to grab her for an interview before she became too famous. 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. It had been bombed.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Last month [August], we featured BeadforLife , which is an organization that sells paper beads made by women in Uganda. All that money goes back to support the beaders in Uganda. The essence of Dining for Women is connection, education, and self-empowerment. Actually, they're jewelry (e.g. You've also added a travel program.

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Chapter Uganda Giving Interview 57

Amy Sample Ward

JULY 20, 2009

Youth Empowerment with Social Media. If you are looking for more examples about social media and communications technologies applied to youth empowerment, here are some additional links/groups to check out: [link] (social media used as outreach about teen dating violence). View more presentations from Amy Sample ward.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 2, 2013

That said, in 2012 I had the opportunity to travel to Africa and Asia and from those travel experiences three themes emerged that inspired the selection of this year’s nonprofits: 1) Women’s and girls empowerment; 2) Conservation of wildlife and wild lands; and 3) Access to medical care. 10×10 :: @ 10x10Act. amfAR :: @ amfAR.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 29, 2009

The idea is now that we're getting stronger and more flexible, more conscious, more patient, and more aware, we need to take those very qualities that we're learning in the yoga room, and begin to truly apply them in our families, in our local community, and into our global family as well. I knew that the work that I was doing was effective.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

It’s the week of the United Nations General Assembly and the Clinton Global Initiative. Kampala, Uganda The Sixth Africa Forum was the main reason for my Africa trip. She is a University of Minnesota law school professor who was born in Africa and is a terrific advocate for the Treaty and its empowerment of the blind community.

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