Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 3, 2013

Guest Beneblog by Betsy Beaumon, VP and General Manager, Benetech’s Global Literacy Program. That’s why braille is an important focus for us in Benetech’s Global Literacy Program — we know that we must keep braille relevant and make it more available. and critical for the inclusion and empowerment of people in developing countries.

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Forum One

MAY 17, 2010

Departments of Commerce and State. In response to Cairo, the attendees sought to work together to forge relationships between the United States and Muslims based on respect and partnerships within the private sector and civil society organizations.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 28, 2006

She is the co-founder and co-director of Women's Global Green Action Network , a nonprofit that cultivates global partnerships of grassroots women environmental leaders by providing access to communication tools, support services and networking capabilities. Below is a transcript of an interview with her from the Big Vision Podcast.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 12, 2022

And even as these dire consequences are known, child labour has increased globally to 160 million. Read more about the global effort to end child labour in this joint report by the ILO and UNICEF Opens new window. Director and Representative to Bretton Woods and Multilateral Organizations ILO Office for the United States and Canada.

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Tech Soup

MAY 26, 2011

For those nonprofits working on health issues - In Uganda the Electronic Mobile Open-source Comprehensive Health Application (eMOCHA) has been developed by the Johns Hopkins Center for Clinical Global Health Education and it enables health workers to build HIV awareness and provide prevention information in rural areas. increase in a.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

Empowerment for our participants comes from connecting to an inner wisdom that is often kept hidden from public view, but is a place of extraordinary innate strength and well being. In the United States I have made cards with women who are survivors of domestic violence. What is the path that brought you to this work?

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Images of Empowerment. To address this need, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, in partnership with the David and Lucile Packard Foundation and Getty Images, created Images of Empowerment. Images of Empowerment was created in 2015 and was extended in 2018. Grand Challenges Awards Repository. A starting point for change.”.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

I just had to take that chance." - Jensine Larsen Jensine Larsen is the Founder and CEO of World Pulse , a global media and communication network devoted to bringing women a global voice. They broadcast and unite women's voices from around the world into a powerful force for change. We unite those voices to accelerate change.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 25, 2008

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. Participate in workshops, lead a workshop.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 7, 2008

I couldn't contain myself and wrote a lengthy seven part critique on the Global Philanthropy Forum's Discussion Forum on the topic. In the United States, we give partial tax breaks to those who give generously: a de facto match in tax dollars for charitable giving. If you checkout the link, my comments start near the bottom.

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Bloomerang

MAY 14, 2021

So as you may be aware, New Orleans was a very early epicenter of the pandemic here in the United States. But given the current global uncertainty, are you finding added stresses to your job, worrying about what might be tomorrow or in the coming months? It’s yes and no because I was let go in phases. Mimosa: Absolutely.

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Non Profit Quarterly

MARCH 2, 2022

And the workforce is steadily growing: in the United States, the number of platform workers increased by 34 percent in 2021, one out of three workers has become defined as a temporary or freelance worker, and so-called “independent contractors” are expected to be the majority of the workforce in the near future.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JULY 12, 2022

Before the global pandemic, intergenerational poverty and entrenched patterns of inequality dampened the future livelihoods of millions of children and their families across the globe. Established in 2015, CRUS is an independent global grantmaking sister organization to UK-based Comic Relief, which was founded in 1985.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 29, 2010

From the global to the local, here are #10Ways geolocation is a positive force for good. It has revolutionized communications on a global scale, and the transformation continues with every status update, blog post, and video stream. The global citizenry has become a global network. Social media has changed the world.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 2, 2008

As a feminist, and as a feminine feminist, I truly believe that we don't do a very good job in the United States of believing that you can lead by serving, and I think the United States needs to think deeply about being in service of the rest of the world." Kavita Ramdas, President and CEO, Global Fund for Women.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 29, 2006

How do we stop violence and how do we eradicate poverty in our communities, and uplift people, and how do we also do that in a way that respects the environment, that looks at innovation, and that addresses issues like global warming and peak-oil and environmental racism? How do we build new visions and programs that serve everybody?

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