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Schwab Social Entrepreneurs Summit 2007

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Skoll and Schwab have the two leading social entrepreneurship networks for senior practitioners, and it's great to see them working together to advance the movement. She noted that Yunus worked for twenty years before anyone in the West noticed! Her inspiration for this work included Gandhi, who of course was all about self-reliance!

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SAP Gives Back

Tech Soup

Instead of soliciting donations, this work is based on the idea that people can take care of themselves if given the opportunity. In India, one out of two SAP employees is volunteering on a community project focused on improving educational opportunities through tutoring or enhancing school infrastructure and resources. Tech for Good.

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

Tech Soup

Atrisco, New Mexico: Working Group and Help Desk: Bring Your Projects and Tech Challenges. Mumbai, India: Storymakers 2017. Mahikeng, South Africa: Rural Tech Empowerment. Ilorin, Nigeria: Recession: Reviving the Nation's Economy Through Technology. Chicago, Illinois: Making Tech Accessible to Nonprofits.

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

Have Fun - Do Good

Our conversation began with Marsha describing how Dining for Women works. It enables us as a group to make a large contribution to a grassroots organization that's doing high-impact work, and we get to have fun in the process. What do you think makes the Dining for Women circles, the successful ones, work? That's so fantastic.

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

Have Fun - Do Good

And, at a time when the international women's movement is facing challenges, it would be great to have a reminder that good news is going on, that good work is being done, that progress is happening. Britt Bravo: In so many of the groups you profiled, the women were using the arts for education, empowerment, or healing.

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

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

It’s the week of the United Nations General Assembly and the Clinton Global Initiative. Met with the UN Foundation about a major grant they are giving us to bring Bookshare to India. We’re a former grantee and we hope that our work and Gates funding priorities coincide again in the future. And much more… Washington, D.C.

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The Global Fund for Women: An Interview with Kavita Ramdas

Have Fun - Do Good

It works in over 160 countries around the world. KR: The Global Fund for Women has an extraordinary commitment to keeping our doors open so that as many organizations working to advance women's human rights internationally can really gain access to resources that they so desperately need.

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