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Hire Fresh Talent—But Before You Shop, Check the Fridge

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Even if the job market becomes more advantageous to employers, post-pandemic job seekers are intensely focused on issues that go beyond compensation and benefits. Once we talk through the issues, they realize that there is a current employee, who with the right training and mentoring, would be a great fit for the role.

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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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Youth community service: Belonging, reciprocity, and agency 

Candid

How do young people today see their role in making the world a better place, and what are the implications for the social sector? Today’s youth, however, are equally focused on ensuring long-term benefits for the recipient communities and building sustainable, meaningfully reciprocal relationships.

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An Evolution of Evaluation in Grantmaking With a Participatory Lens

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For issues with this, check out Vu Le’s 2015 post “ Weaponized data: How the obsession with data has been hurting marginalized communities.” Participatory evaluation is based on the premise that everyone has knowledge; everyone has biases; and the people closest to an issue know the most about it.

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Celebrate International Women’s Day 2021

Forum One

As we highlight our staff who are raising their hands high to reinforce and show solidarity on social media today, we also wanted to highlight our clients doing important work moving the needle forward for women’s equality and empowerment. Telling stories through images of empowerment. Amplifying the voices of female peacemakers.

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Five Lessons for Creating an Effective (and Accountable) Nonprofit Board

Blue Avocado

In the process, I was exposed to a number of organizations whose boards struggled with a variety of issues. But the reality is that these people won’t necessarily be effective in a governance role. This proved to be a wonderful way to share nationally AbilityFirst’s empowerment philosophy.

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Gates, Ford, Open Society announce commitments for gender equality

Candid

Announced at the Generation Equality Forum convened by UN Women and co-hosted by the governments of Mexico and France, the Gates Foundation's commitment will focus on three areas: women's economic empowerment, health and family planning, and leadership.

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