Achieve

AUGUST 19, 2014

Google search “ads from the 1950s” and brush yourself up on the iconic advertisements that once graced the pages of magazines, periodicals, and outdoor boards of the time. For them, there’s some copy (the small words on the page) that has a voice of independence, empowerment, and ambition. I’ve got a pretty fun exercise for you.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 23, 2007

Mirai Chatterjee of the Self Employed Women's Association in India explains social entrepreneurs as private initiatives that used business models around financial sustainability, self-help and empowerment. Matthew Bishop of the Economist Magazine made some interesting points.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2010

But as Daniel Ben-Horin said, “Our theory of change states that software products are necessary, but not sufficient for empowerment of social change organizations. Chatting with David Connor , we both had the same reaction – who knew? We embed the product donation with a connection to the community and capacity building.&#.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 14, 2006

I was thrilled when Catherine Conover, the Assistant Managing Editor & Communications Coordinator for New Moon magazine, contacted me and suggested that Nancy Gruver, the founder of New Moon, would be a great Solutionary Woman to interview. That’s why we created a Girls Editorial Board to make the editorial choices.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

Empowerment for our participants comes from connecting to an inner wisdom that is often kept hidden from public view, but is a place of extraordinary innate strength and well being. In Uganda, a group of young people made incredible, heartfelt postcards filled with glitter and cut up magazine pictures to send to women in the Congo.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

If you do go the policy or guidelines route, remember to focus on empowerment rather than rigid restrictions. We've also recently begun using Flipboard and engaging staff to curate magazines in their expertise areas. Idealware explains how to do just that in a handy article that includes links to its policy templates and workbook.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

I'm a complete magazine and media addict. What really pushed me over the edge was, day after day waking up and not seeing this magazine on the newsstands, not hearing it when I turned on the radio, and also the voices of the women that I had met was my biggest instigator. Our first magazine was published in 2004.

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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. She has been named a Haas Public Service Fellow at Stanford, a Top 10 College Woman by Glamour Magazine , and a Person You Should Know by CNN.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 28, 2006

Melinda: One of the interesting things about working within women's empowerment as it relates to environmental sustainability is I've really learned the ways that we talk about environmentalism is as this siloed issue. Melinda: There is a new magazine that is coming out, that I recommend people stay attuned to, which is called World Pulse.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

" An example is a campaign sponsored by the Women Empowerment Program at the Hariri Foundation in Lebanon. Magazines featured red stickers so that people could add a red accent themselves where they wanted it. If the mark isn't there, the word is masculine by default. The campaign featured the mark on billboards in red.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

" An example is a campaign sponsored by the Women Empowerment Program at the Hariri Foundation in Lebanon. Magazines featured red stickers so that people could add a red accent themselves where they wanted it. If the mark isn't there, the word is masculine by default. The campaign featured the mark on billboards in red.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 28, 2007

Britt Bravo: In so many of the groups you profiled, the women were using the arts for education, empowerment, or healing. Daylight Magazine is the biannual printed publication of Daylight Community Arts Foundation (DCAF), a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the use of photography as a tool for effecting social change."

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 29, 2009

Seane has been featured in commercials and has appeared on the cover of Yoga Journal , Fit Yoga , and many other magazines. She utilizes her national platform to bring awareness to the HIV/AIDS crisis.

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