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Bridging the Opportunity Divide – Empowering Youth to Imagine and Realize their Futures

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Give for Youth micro-giving marketplace where you can support youth-focused nonprofits directly. Because Microsoft works in partnerships with others in the sector,they are committing the majority of their corporate cash giving to support nonprofits that serve youth. ” Their solution is Microsoft YouthSpark.

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Empowering Refugees: Interview with Kjerstin Erickson of FORGE

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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. What we do is essentially support social entrepreneurship within refugee communities. The model that FORGE takes is really a long-term impact framework.

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Bringing Women a Global Voice: Jensine Larsen, World Pulse

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It's a very creative town, very community oriented, and the energy there is very supportive. I worked on the side with my massage to be able to get the income to support myself while I did something very, very entrepreneurial and very risky. The most powerful impact we found was actually in the women's leadership and influence locally.

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Girls' Night Out with a Twist: Dining for Women and the Power of Giving Circles

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Marsha Wallace: Dining for Women is an international giving circle, and our mission is to support and empower self-sufficiency for women and girls who live in extreme poverty in developing countries. All that money goes back to support the beaders in Uganda. Our conversation began with Marsha describing how Dining for Women works.

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Using Photography to Change the World: An Interview with Paola Gianturco

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Britt Bravo: In so many of the groups you profiled, the women were using the arts for education, empowerment, or healing. They are gaining support from people in government, and politicians, and academicians, and business people, men, boys, women, girls. Because he is wonderfully supportive of these projects, he shares those with me.

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Mr. Jim Goes to Washington (and New York, and Nairobi, and Seoul, and Kampala, and Boston…)

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

We know that the carbon impact of all that travel is bad for the planet, and the personal impact of all that travel is bad on our bodies. We’ve spent a lot of time over the past few years advocating against cuts to the funding that supports our work, by pointing out how amazingly effective this funding is. Why do I do it?

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Alli Chagi-Starr, Art in Action/Ella Baker Center, Podcast Interview Transcription

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And every dollar goes to support on the ground activities to rebuild New Orleans and the grassroots community, as well as the people here who have been displaced. Rich people aren't going to support us." So we're bringing a lot of elements together, the innerpersonal the activist. Nobody cares. And Britt, you're so good at this.

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