Forum One

MAY 20, 2009

The Society for International Development has done it again! Earlier this month, I attended their tremendous annual conference with notable and unforgettable speakers that make you leave the glimmering chandeliers in DC's Omni Shoreham ballroom thinking to yourself, what more needs to be done in international development?

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International Develop Empowerment Ghana 52

Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

We know that good stories power fundraising and marketing, so join one of our free events to discover powerful case studies and connect with digital storytelling experts in your community. The world is better when nonprofits can better tell their story. Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin: How to Tell Your Nonprofit Story with Spark.

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Qgiv

MARCH 1, 2023

The commission selected the week of March 8th for their celebration to correspond with International Women’s Day. This year, the theme has been designated as “Celebrating Women Who Tell Our Stories.” Donate to support the Women First International Fund and their grantees here.

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NonProfit Hub

MARCH 2, 2021

She has spent almost thirty years working in the nonprofit world helping organizations communicate more effectively internally and externally. He is constantly searching for new opportunities clients can leverage to achieve differentiation, develop competitive advantages, and better communicate their brand story.

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Qgiv

JULY 19, 2023

The four grant categories you can apply for are: education in America, democracy, international peace and security, and higher education and research in Africa. Tell your nonprofit’s story. When writing a grant proposal, take the opportunity to tell the story of your organization. The Ford Foundation granted $1.07

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 9, 2019

In his book, True North , Bill George shows you how to discover your true north - your internal compass that guides you successfully through life. Like loyalty, respect provides a basis for empowerment, but leaders must earn it," says George. There is no substitute.

Empowerment 40

Empowerment Teach Leadership Life 40

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2017

The last time I shared a plenary stage with Marcelo Iniarra was in 2014 at the International Fundraising Congress where he rode a bicycle on stage! Stories are social. The importance of digital reputation management – stories last forever and can spread quickly. Everyone loves a good story. Content is king.

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Learning Donor Online Fundraising 86

Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 11, 2012

It was the power of people sharing the stories with one another that actually brought it to some sort of critical mass where mainstream media then took attention. It was much more important for people to be sharing the stories with each other for the traffic to blow up really, really fast." It continued on the same trajectory.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2015

In his book, True North , Bill George shows you how to discover your true north - your internal compass that guides you successfully through life. Like loyalty, respect provides a basis for empowerment, but leaders must earn it," says George. There is no substitute.

Empowerment 40

Empowerment Teach Leadership Life 40

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

So here''s the story of how we are trying to take another approach at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History, through a group called C3. Our topics are broad, including Creative Spaces, Youth Empowerment, and Economic Opportunity. Also, can form factions of different community boards representing different groups (i.e.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Talking about global youth issues from a high-level is one thing, but it is so much more impactful and inspiring to sit down with young people and hear their stories of challenge and success directly. A video of her story is here. Peter Shiras joined us from another great youth organization, the International Youth Foundation (IYF).

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Kenya Empowerment Global Africa 96

Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 31, 2015

In his new book, True North , Bill George shows you how to discover your true north - your internal compass that guides you successfully through life. Like loyalty, respect provides a basis for empowerment, but leaders must earn it," says George. There is no substitute.

Empowerment 40

Empowerment Teach Leadership Life 40

ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 16, 2020

ECB involves a series of steps taken by an evaluator (internal or external) to build evaluative knowledge and skills, create a culture of continuous learning and accountability, and make resources readily available. Guide to building evaluation capacity. Assess the organizational context. Invest in your evaluation capacity.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 22, 2007

Just got some information on this cool program: The Hadley School for the Blind has launched an innovative program of English language learning and empowerment which spans the Pacific Ocean. Hadley's international branch is located in Fuzhou, China. Hadley-China students gain more self-confidence as their English skills improve.

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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.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Companies like First West Credit Union are focusing on amplifying these employee acts of kindness by telling their stories. TD Bank has an internal learning hub that aims to help employees learn more about community issues and the non-profits who work on them. In your opinion, what does the future look like for volunteering?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

I found successful data driven organizations across nearly every sub-sector including higher education, international relief, religious, medical research, healthcare, human services, mental health and crisis intervention, community improvement and capacity building, environmental, and animal welfare. ALL SHAPES, SIZES, & MISSIONS.

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Culture Data South Dakota Los Angeles 50

NonProfit Hub

JULY 22, 2015

The amazing stories that come from the Make-A-Wish Foundation have turned this nonprofit into a household name. ChildFund International. Helping some of the world’s most impoverished children in Liberia is a complex problem, but ChildFund International receives help from an important partner back in the U.S.: TOMS Shoes.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 7, 2022

The Vermont Women’s Fund focuses their grantmaking on supporting women and girls on pathways to economic well-being, including career development, an area highlighted by the research of their initiative, Change The Story. The post Funding & Grant Resources For Women’s Empowerment Organizations appeared first on Bloomerang.

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Kindful

MARCH 5, 2021

The Vermont Women’s Fund focuses their grantmaking on supporting women and girls on pathways to economic well-being, including career development, an area highlighted by the research of their initiative, Change The Story. The post 2021 Funding & Grant Resources For Women’s Empowerment Organizations appeared first on Kindful.

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Empowerment Grant Fund Resource 104

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 9, 2018

Literacy and access to knowledge underpins just about every social good, from education, to economic development, to health, to women’s empowerment, democracy and respect for human rights. Today, the Marrakesh Treaty has been ratified by more than thirty countries, and went into international effect and law as of last year.

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Tech Soup

JULY 8, 2011

This was first posted on the GuideStar International blog. must also develop the skills needed to tell the stories that need to be. by Dinesh Venkateswaran, Manager - Global Data Acquisitions, TechSoup Global. discuss approaches to addressing nagging challenges of the current. disaster). On the core. initiatives. told through data.

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Activities Active Activism Review 47

Museum 2.0

APRIL 29, 2015

We think about this redefinition of affinity not just in terms of our programming but our internal structures as well. HOW (slides 24-42) There are three “tracks” to our theory of change: individual empowerment, social bonding, and social bridging. Let’s start with empowerment. Bridging is another story.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 8, 2007

"Many people imagine international health as this fashionable, sexy, and fun job. In December I wrote a book review of Monique and the Mango Rains , the story of a Peace Corps worker's two years working with a midwife in Mali. Many people imagine international health as this fashionable, sexy, and fun job.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 19, 2009

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. We bring communities together to identify their top problems, needs, and priorities, and solve them internally. We have the opportunity to fail.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 8, 2008

Social and Nonprofits ROI: Case Study Slam submitted by Beth Kanter Using a poetry slam format, each panelist will present a five-minute poem or story about how their organization has successfully implemented a social media strategy experiment and how they considered the ROI. It's hard or impossible to repair it, or get anyone to repair it.

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Cloud 4 Good

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

This was made possible by reconfiguring permission sets, upgrading the Salesforce org from Classic to Lightning, optimizing FormAssembly, creating impact reports, standardizing the NESFP grant tracking and management process, installing the Case and Program Management Module, as well as centralizing all internal communication.

Community 72

Community Cancer Giving Grant 72

Everyaction

JULY 23, 2018

It opened up the question of what roles chefs can play in international development. Our work started by focusing on long term empowerment projects. For the past 5 or 6 years we've had a small but steady group of supporters who are primarily invested in our empowerment projects. At the same time, each meal has a story.

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

There is not one single story. It is only through time and interactions that we come to see and understand the whole story and connect with one another to make greater social impact. The Aspen Institute fellowship gave me the opportunity to learn the whole story.

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Leadership Phoenix Arizona Impact 72

Museum 2.0

JULY 6, 2016

One of the nonprofits that inspires me locally here in Santa Cruz is a youth empowerment and food justice organization called "Food, What!?" Then, he establishes credibility with stories from real kids about the program. It is the internal voice suggesting what they might and might not want to do. Hanging out.

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Qgiv

JUNE 12, 2023

When done poorly, they can become sources of confusion for both internal and external audiences. This list is ideally sorted into areas and is primarily an Internal list that your audience does not see. This is primarily internal, but it may also appear in your statements. Internal and external. Internal and external.

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

There is not one single story. It is only through time and interactions that we come to see and understand the whole story and connect with one another to make greater social impact. The Aspen Institute fellowship gave me the opportunity to learn the whole story.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

This piece examines seven familiar challenges, shares suggested solutions, and highlights the stories of nonprofits who are using Salesforce to tackle many of these challenges. Camfed , an international nonprofit organisation supporting girls in Sub-Saharan Africa to go to school, uses Salesforce to collect data more easily.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

There are a lot of companies that give to international causes, which is great. They capture the negative stories of the inner city. Why not tell stories about the great things that are happening there like the great companies that are creating a lot of jobs and thriving, and doing great things not only locally, but around the world.

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Oakland San Francisco Companies Business 61

Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 28, 2006

From her Berkeley-based office, Melinda Kramer facilitates an international network of women leaders. Melinda Kramer: Women's Global Green Action Network is an international organization that is linking and empowering women working in environmental sustainability around the world. Many of those meetings were with women.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 2, 2007

They are all made from natural materials, sustainably harvested, and every product has not only a beautiful quality, and you can really see the handmade aspect of the product and at the same time it is stylish and fashionable, and it has a great little story on it that tells you where it comes from, how it was made, how it benefits that community.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

I actually started out with International Studies, and more academic. We trained them in how to use their cell phones for rapid response, and how to write Op-eds, feature stories, and front line journals. We publish their stories, and from that experience, a big impact was that a lot of the women got their stories picked up.

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