Everyaction

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

Created in 1998, the United Nations Foundation links the United Nations' work with others around the world, helping the UN address a range of global issues, including climate change, global health, women’s empowerment, peace and security, poverty eradication, and more.

National 59

National Foundation Global Empowerment 59

Tech Soup

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Our Time (Facebook) is a nonprofit dedicated to youth empowerment through the voting process. The iPad app provides free videos to K-12 students on various topics, including math, science, finance, and history. The app was a finalist in Microsoft's 2011 Imagine Cup, a student technology competition.

Teen 65

Teen Netsquared Student Library 65

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

With OF/BY/FOR ALL, we're playing a role in this ecosystem as an accelerant for organizational change. We need an ecosystem of activists, academics, funders, professionals, policymakers, and associations striving together towards common goals. Heck, I've spent lots of time participating in those ways myself.

Los Angeles 31

Los Angeles Network Oakland Change 31

Museum 2.0

MARCH 4, 2015

Over the past four years, I''ve been running a small regional art and history museum in Santa Cruz, CA. I''ve gotten more comfortable and more confident with the idea of the museum as political body that advocates for empowerment and social bridging. Empowerment? When we really live our mission, that''s where it takes us.

Participatory 20

Participatory Museum Empowerment Facilitation 20

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2007

stream, reading a chat history, answering ims, and taking notes! MacArthur Foundation hosted its first discussion in Second Life to explore the role that philanthropy might play in virtual worlds. We're trying a year of conversation about how to enter the culture in Second Life and the role of philanthropy. The John D.

Virtual 50

Virtual Philanthropy Foundation Second Life 50

Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 25, 2008

Desai came to the Women of Color Resource Center from a Deputy Director role at United for a Fair Economy. The greatest thing that I came away with is that the United States' and the European notions of what African history is all about, are so simplified. It is a much more complex and nuanced history.

Resource 40

Resource Interview Policy Issue 40

ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 17, 2015

I found many parallels between the history and development of the design museum and of the MIM. We discussed the need to position ourselves differently depending on our audience, which ranges from board members to directors to funders and had some great conversations about the challenges and privileges of high-level fundraising roles.

Professional 40

Professional Global Develop France 40

ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 7, 2015

I found many parallels between the history and development of the design museum and of the MIM. We discussed the need to position ourselves differently depending on our audience, which ranges from board members to directors to funders and had some great conversations about the challenges and privileges of high-level fundraising roles.

Professional 40

Professional Global Develop France 40

Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 29, 2009

We visited the prison camp, the Killing Fields, and explored the dark history of Cambodia because it's impossible to truly be empathic to the circumstance, as it is today, unless you understand how the culture and its people got to be in this position. My history is one of sexual molestation. How do you shift roles?

Interview 46

Interview Cambodia Children Uganda 46

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 29, 2010

In 2012, location-based apps and technologies will play a central role in how campaigns are organized, managed, and ultimately won. Behind the scenes, though, we’ll see massive new sets of data available to campaigns for targeting, empowerment, and optimization. Activists and volunteers will be more empowered.

Change 108

Change Disaster Green Los Angeles 108

Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 29, 2006

So, last spring Ella Baker Center, to launch its new program Reclaim the Future, took a big role in the United Nations World Environment Day Conference that was happening here in San Francisco. So we're bringing a lot of elements together, the innerpersonal the activist.

Arts 40

Arts Podcast Action Interview 40

Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 2, 2008

Many of them do really meet our basic criteria of being women-led, of reflecting the work of a group of women, rather than just one or two individuals, and of really tackling critical human rights challenges and societal challenges in which women are playing key roles. It is a good thing we are doing this in Women's History Month.

Global 44

Global Fund Interview United States 44