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

Connection Cafe

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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How a Community of Long-Term Monthly Donors Make a Long-Term Difference

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Families in need can access small, affordable loans and expert local resources to make household taps and toilets a reality, immediately. If you share a passion for solving one of the world’s most critical social issues, join them. Each month, they help create financial opportunity that previously did not exist for people in poverty.

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Earth Day ‘22: Salesforce.org Customers Tackle Climate Challenges by Land, Air & Sea

Saleforce Nonprofit

We need new policies, new technology, new strategies, and local support in order to build, implement, and sustain the kinds of solutions that will help us make progress on our goals. Mission: Empowerment of children and youth and mobilize for and enable the restoration of 1 trillion new trees worldwide. Plant for the Planet.

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Leveraging data to better serve under-resourced communities 

Candid

In November 2023, we received a grant from the Capital One Foundation to support our housing and financial empowerment programming. With this data, our partners have successfully launched new programs, modified existing programming, and called attention to new issues in their communities to funders, community leaders, and elected officials.

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May Cause Awareness: Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month

Qgiv

Look for nonprofits that serve your local AAPI community to make an impact closer to home or check out national nonprofits that serve the broader community throughout the country. If you’re not sure where to start, here’s a list of nonprofits you can check out! Donate to the foundation here.

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

Qgiv

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. Co-authored with Enrique Piracés, Benetech VP, Human Rights. That''s why Martus offers end-to-end encryption.

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