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'Thanks to Public Allies, I am Now, and Forever, an Agent of Impact'

ASU Lodestar Center

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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4 Best Professional Development Practices for Nonprofits

NonProfit Hub

Kristine volunteers as a reading mentor in the Lead to Read KC program and as a coach for At Coaching for Everyone , delivering complimentary coaching and leadership support to traditionally underserved and under-resourced populations.

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Nurturing Inner City Entrepreneurs: Jose Corona of Inner City Advisors

Have Fun - Do Good

The other thing is that a lot of inner cities are part of empowerment zones or enterprise zones where companies that are at a certain scale and profitable can benefit from tax credits, both from the payroll side, if you hire from the inner city, but also if you locate in the enterprise zones. It can be the government.

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Creating Markets for Fair Trade Gifts: An Interview with Priya Haji of World of Good

Have Fun - Do Good

Holly has now been out meeting with the International Labor Organization and thinking about different ways that you really help create empowerment for women who work in informal markets. So I feel really excited to be one of them, and I have had great mentors from Haas, and also from Stanford, who have really helped me.

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[VIDEO] You’ve Been Let Go From Your Nonprofit Job – Now What?

Bloomerang

I had already been having conversations over the months prior to that with some of my mentors about making a switch to consulting. We were in the phase of the pandemic where people on unemployment were also receiving that bonus from the federal government to make it a little more livable.”

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