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Ways We Can All Help Advance Women’s and Girls’ Empowerment

Connection Cafe

Women’s and girls’ empowerment is a sweeping topic, defined and shaped by family beliefs and cultural norms in the community and country where one lives. Some people associate the empowerment of women and girls primarily with challenges faced in communities where poverty and lack of access to education determine one’s level of empowerment.

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Celebrate International Women’s Day 2021

Forum One

As we highlight our staff who are raising their hands high to reinforce and show solidarity on social media today, we also wanted to highlight our clients doing important work moving the needle forward for women’s equality and empowerment. Amplifying the voices of female peacemakers. Telling stories through images of empowerment.

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Funding And Grant Resources For Nonprofits Focused On Youth Programs

Kindful

Many foundations focus much of their philanthropy work on youth empowerment—and for good reason. The foundations on this list are just a few of the many that understand the importance that youth empowerment plays in helping young people from all backgrounds grow and excel during this critical stage of their life. Kellogg Foundation.

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5 Organizations To Support On World Refugee Day

Everyaction

They have since expanded to become a leading advocate for resolution of global refugee crises by world leaders. Their model of empowerment amplifies the voices of refugee communities, allowing them to act as their own champions. Refugees International was founded in 1979 as a citizens’ movement to protect Indochinese refugees.

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What A Pandemic Teaches Us About Innovation and Corporate Giving

Givinga

COVID-19 showcased the huge opportunity for companies, on a global scale, to play a more pronounced, proactive and impactful role, through impact innovation. We helped LIVELY formulate a list of 10 charities that promote social justice through a variety of areas including legal, advocacy and women’s empowerment.

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What I Learned About Online Donor Engagement from Fundraisers in Brasil

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The UN Global Report is also using Facebook Messenger bots to engage young people around different issues. ” The campaign, which has global appeal, features testicles giving their own testi-monials about cancer and how they have been personally affected. Empowerment. Transparency. Aspiration. Positive Impact.

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International Women’s Day: Using Technology to Empower Women and Girls

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The One Campaign has launched an open letter signed by 86 leading voices for women around the world. I’ve been committed to working on technology capacity building for organizations serving Women and Girls empowerment. 2016 is the year that real money and reforms must start to right these wrongs.