Blue Avocado

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

But the reality is that these people won’t necessarily be effective in a governance role. This proved to be a wonderful way to share nationally AbilityFirst’s empowerment philosophy. The governance structure of our housing program required that each of our 12 Section 811 HUD properties had to be corporations and have their own boards.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 13, 2014

We now understand that corporate collection and government interception of sensitive information is the norm, not the exception. At Benetech —a nonprofit technology company that develops innovative and effective applications for unmet social needs—we embrace the notion of individual empowerment every day in our work.

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Forum One

MARCH 8, 2021

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. Telling stories through images of empowerment. Amplifying the voices of female peacemakers.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

APRIL 22, 2022

No one individual, company, government agency, or nonprofit can go it alone. Mission: Empowerment of children and youth and mobilize for and enable the restoration of 1 trillion new trees worldwide. We believe, we know, that moving the needle on climate change requires collaboration on all levels. Plant for the Planet.

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Qgiv

MAY 1, 2023

Community festivals, government-sponsored activities, and educational activities for students are all essential parts of this month-long celebration. May is set aside every year to celebrate the achievements and contributions of Asian and Pacific Americans to American history and modern society.

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Kindful

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

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.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 9, 2023

You cannot have empowerment without participation: empowerment is not something we ‘do’ to other people, but is itself a participatory process that engages people in reflection and inquiry to understand the power they have, and to take action for change as they define it.”

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 4, 2009

While touring the island, listening to my pleasant audio guide chattering away on my headphones, I learned of a constituent empowerment campaign from long ago. The French government extended the gift of the Statue of Liberty to the United States in 1876, in recognition of our first 100 years as a nation. Let me tell you about it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

One valuable section of the report is a catalog of common project designs across different sub-areas of the social change sector, including: Crisis Response, Economic Empowerment, Education, Environment, Equality and Inclusion, Health, and Public Sector. Organizations want to prioritize responsibility but don’t know how.

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

In addition, the interdependence between nonprofits, corporations and governments will continue to intensify during the 21st century. They can be from business, government and civil society, which combine the competencies of each, to resolve a specified problem or challenge. In Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, James E.

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Twenty Hats

JUNE 7, 2021

All businesses and organizations are governed by them, even when they talk about mission and values, the metrics behind the rhetoric matter. As we welcome more and more millennials into our work and volunteer forces, we’re seeing that they are not willing to tolerate mismanagement or lack of empowerment in their jobs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2007

Click To Play Vikas Nath explains his idea that empowerment of women in governance using ICTS should pass via livelihoods. My colleague, Joitske Hulsebosch, who is based in the Netherlands and most recently working in Ghana, developed a 12-step vlogging process to help a network in Ghana (GINKS) produce an ICT4D stories blog.

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 16, 2020

As nonprofits attempt to tackle some of our communities' most difficult problems; funders, government agencies and the general public are actively calling for accountability, transparency and proof that a program is producing change. Illustration by Jocelyn Ruiz. This call spurred the increasing demand for program evaluation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 7, 2012

If you know of or have examples of data literacy curriculum for nonprofits or data empowerment for community organization, let me know in the comments. Lucy Bernholz, who also participated in the meeting, wrote up this great post about the space/movement that is in the center of her research).

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Under the theme “Achieving Our Vision through Empowerment and Partnerships,” this was the first-ever combined General Assembly of both WBU and the International Council for Education of People with Visual Impairment ( ICEVI ), another world-class organization in the field. The November 2012 General Assembly took place in Bangkok, Thailand.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 25, 2012

Calls for scaling have been amplified by the recent economic recession, which brought increased demand for social services coupled with shrinking government dollars. Municipal bonds (munis) are debt obligations issued by government entities. The past decade has been rife with ideas on how to scale up successful nonprofit organizations.

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Forum One

MAY 17, 2010

We are also engaging with the Government of Iraq through the development of new web portals that will assist with project management and connecting with citizens of the country. government, members of the diplomatic corps, successful business and civil society leaders, philanthropists, media professionals, academics, artists etc.

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ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 18, 2018

This creates a self-sustaining cycle of empowerment, which is critical to ending the disconnection and disempowerment that prevent individuals from living the life they are worthy and capable of. This work has entailed cultivating partnerships with school districts, city governments, community groups and nonprofits serving at-risk youth.

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Tech Soup

JULY 8, 2011

Guardian’s ACTIVATE is an annual conference that aims to bring together leaders in media, government and technology to a ctivatedly. data and governance, profiting from social change projects, and access to data and tools. " Alec Ross, Senior Adviser to US Secretary of State, speaking on Open Governance. disaster).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2017

Empowerment. Global trust in government, media, business and NGOs has fallen to its lowest levels ever. The bottom for shaping online engagement is: “Amid all the change and uncertainty of this moment, a set of core truths about our shared future are as relevant as ever. Transparency. Aspiration. Positive Impact.

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Author Bio: Kristine Holferty is the Chief Marketing and Sales Officer for the Nonprofit Leadership Alliance, where she is dedicated to using her extensive expertise to help social enterprises and social impact professionals develop their leadership capacity.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

We’ve also taken steps to holistically integrate Purpose at PIMCO with the goals of PIMCO’s Inclusion, Diversity and Culture teams and environmental, social, and governance philosophy within our Corporate Responsibility department. Furthermore, in 2019 we helped launch a mobile food pantry that will seek to support hard-to-reach communities.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Have you interacted with your local government, or spoken to your peers about their programs? Boston University provides in-kind space to host professional development forums, EVERFI supplies financial literacy coursework, and Boston’s Center for Teen Empowerment adds expertise in the youth development space.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 23, 2016

A host of cultural, economic, social and infrastructural barriers keep women locked out from the empowerment potential of Internet access. We launched a global crowdsourcing campaign to collect homegrown solutions and ideas to spread digital empowerment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 26, 2011

Carson talked about the impact of government cuts in California – and that it is going beyond effecting those in lower income neighborhoods and reaching a broader swath of individuals. Mobile Technology and Social Media and Real Time Learning.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 9, 2018

Literacy and access to knowledge underpins just about every social good, from education, to economic development, to health, to women’s empowerment, democracy and respect for human rights. Our current model mainly depends on government and foundation support enabling us to provide free library services to members.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2011

Father McKenna Center : The McKenna Center serves the needs of the poor, men, women and children through a variety of programs funded by generous individuals, religious orders and institutions, foundations and government grants. Their use of Facebook was instrumental in winning Sears’ Dads Making a Difference Contest.

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 22, 2015

Some of the issues that Mozilla has taken up include curbing government surveillance and promoting net neutrality in Europe. The philanthropic arm of Coca Cola has donated several million dollars to the organization in the past few years to help boost female economic empowerment in Southeast Asia.

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Deborah Elizabeth Finn

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Community engagement governance. He uses his blog, Nonprofit AF , to analyze overlapping issues such as philanthropy, justice, inclusion, power dynamics, racial equity, nonprofit leadership, outcomes reporting, and financial sustainability. And as a bonus, he’s very funny as well. Tools: Reflective structured dialogue.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 29, 2018

The program relies on multiple partners including the city of Boston, Boston University, local nonprofits, EVERFI , Boston’s Center for Teen Empowerment , and others. Annie Duong-Turner from John Hancock discussed the logic model they have set up for their MLK Scholars Program in “Best-in-Class Partnerships That Are Sustainable”.

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Tech Soup

MAY 11, 2015

The team members came up with a tool to make the cumbersome process of collecting, transcribing, and cleaning data easier for urban nonprofits and government agencies. This app was the winner of a Cities for Financial Empowerment Fund and Capital One hackathon.

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NTEN

AUGUST 25, 2009

Under the guise of non-profitability hundreds of millions of these laptops will be flogged off to our governments. Bharat Mehra claims, in New Media & Society , that "The internet has tremendous potential to achieve greater social equity and empowerment and improve everyday life for those on the margins of society."

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

CON: can feel disconnected from the primary governance of the museum or can feel like a second-class board overall. Our topics are broad, including Creative Spaces, Youth Empowerment, and Economic Opportunity. Also, can form factions of different community boards representing different groups (i.e.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 2, 2007

Part two talks about understanding the challenges.Foundations take on the biggest and gnarliest social problems (if the problems could be easily solved, the private sector or governments would have already figured them out. With economic recovery inching along, all levels of government are feeling the pinch brought on by reduced tax revenue.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MARCH 8, 2022

Women and girls in particular have felt the impacts of a never-ending global health pandemic, conflict and displacement, and authoritarian government takeovers, to name a few. Women and girls will, once again, lose access to the benefits of sport. Credit: GOLEES.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 25, 2007

In two months, 10,000 visitors sent postcards (and fortuitiously, the government acted in favor of protection). The museum display included information about the issue, a countdown clock to the government's decision, and a running tally of postcards submitted to date.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 12, 2022

Governments should embrace internationally recognised fundamental rights at work including ending forced labour, discrimination at work, respecting workers’ right to freely choose representation and ensuring safe and healthy working conditions. Making Decent Work a Reality for Adults and Youth. Achieving Universal Access to Social Protection.

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