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Ways We Can All Help Advance Women’s and Girls’ Empowerment

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Women’s and girls’ empowerment is a sweeping topic, defined and shaped by family beliefs and cultural norms in the community and country where one lives. Some people associate the empowerment of women and girls primarily with challenges faced in communities where poverty and lack of access to education determine one’s level of empowerment.

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

March 8th is International Women’s Day. I’ve been committed to working on technology capacity building for organizations serving Women and Girls empowerment. Advisors will contribute to related volunteer projects and will meet with gender experts and local organizations to learn and share resources and information.

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Quick Guide to Grants for Nonprofits: Tips, Resources & More

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Government The government provides grants at federal, state, and local levels to ease the burden of overhead or administration costs for nonprofits like yours. For example, the federal government often provides funding to state and local governments for formula grants that benefit federal programs. The Ford Foundation granted $1.07

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Human Rights and the Duty to Protect Sensitive Data

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Consider this: when you visit your doctor about a medical issue in the United States, you can be reasonably confident that it won''t shortly be on the front page of the local newspaper. Unfortunately, there is no HIPAA equivalent for international human rights and humanitarian information.

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Trainer’s Notebook: #Tech2Empower Peru

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I am honored to be working with Wake International on their Tech2Empower Program in Cusco, Peru. The program hosts a delegation of women who work in the tech industry to share their knowledge and skills with women-focused nonprofits, startups and girls empowerment programs in developing countries and in the US.

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March Cause Awareness: Women’s History Month

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The commission selected the week of March 8th for their celebration to correspond with International Women’s Day. They harness the power of collective giving to fund grants for local programs who work to support women like the YWCA, Girl Scouts, and various domestic violence coalitions.

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» Local Team of Global Philanthropists Prepares to Shoot T.V. Pilot

AFP Blog

» Local Team of Global Philanthropists Prepares to Shoot T.V. Pilot : "emember Dr. Robert Gore, the emergency room doctor from Bed-Stuy behind the Global Empowerment Movement? (If Currently, they are raising production funds to complete a “socially- relevant” television series called GLOBAL EMPOWERMENT PROJECT." ''via Blog this'''

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