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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Early last year my colleague Noel Dickover and his co-workers at PeaceTech Lab organized a workshop in Mumbai, India to help activists use technology and media to prevent gender based violence. These young girls are growing up in the Dharavi neighborhood of Mumbai India, one of the largest slums in the world. The Tech Girls of Dharavi.

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Women Ingenuity is Powering Solutions for the Digital Divide

Connection Cafe

With ingenuity and resourcefulness, women are coding new strategies to bring more women online and empower them. A host of cultural, economic, social and infrastructural barriers keep women locked out from the empowerment potential of Internet access. Women in our online community tell of solutions, but they also tell of risk.

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Get Help in Telling the Story of Your Nonprofit's Impact

Tech Soup

If you don't have a local group (I can help fix that problem! ), there are also free online guides and a global Twitter chat October 5 using the hashtag #storymakers2017. Decatur, Illinois: Free and Low-Cost Resources for Nonprofit Software. Mumbai, India: Storymakers 2017. Mahikeng, South Africa: Rural Tech Empowerment.

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Microsoft’s Networked Approach To Accelerating Social Change Through Technology

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

But as Daniel Ben-Horin said, “Our theory of change states that software products are necessary, but not sufficient for empowerment of social change organizations. Lisa Brummel, SVP, Human Resources, Microsoft; Tom Moran, United Way Loaned Executive; Rajesh Munshi; Xiang Li, Givology; Adnan Mahmud, Jolkona Foundation.

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Digital Platforms for Greater Impact: Examples for Foundations

Forum One

Collaborative efforts: Various organizations contributing their own resources, content, and data to create a common service that none of them would have been able to develop on their own is possible through digital platforms. Images of Empowerment. Images of Empowerment was created in 2015 and was extended in 2018.

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Women's Global Green Action Network: An Interview with Melinda Kramer

Have Fun - Do Good

Our essential intention is to cultivate partnerships of grassroots women who are working at the community level on issues of environmental sustainability and social justice, so that they can really find opportunities to collaborate and to exchange best practices, exchange resources, and really build a collective agenda.

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Bringing Women a Global Voice: Jensine Larsen, World Pulse

Have Fun - Do Good

I had absolutely no publishing experience, much less any technology experience, and I was also very, very shy and I had no resources either, another big barrier. It had hit India. She can join the community and find resources and network. Well, I was definitely afraid, and the thing was, was that I was so young as well.

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