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Bridging the Opportunity Divide – Empowering Youth to Imagine and Realize their Futures

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Mary Mwende told us about her journey from Mombasa, Kenya, to being one of ten girls chosen for the Global Give Back Circle , a mentoring and empowerment program. Peter has extensive international experience in Latin America and Africa and discussed the problems and solutions he sees from the ground.

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Heather Carpenter: Nonprofit Operations Guru

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I worked for two and half years as Operations Manager for Low-Income Families Empowerment through Education (LIFETIME) a statewide grassroots membership organization that helps low-income families go to college and get out of poverty. What was the most stressful that happened to you as an "Accidental Techie"?

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Nurturing Inner City Entrepreneurs: Jose Corona of Inner City Advisors

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The other thing is that a lot of inner cities are part of empowerment zones or enterprise zones where companies that are at a certain scale and profitable can benefit from tax credits, both from the payroll side, if you hire from the inner city, but also if you locate in the enterprise zones. Tea, from the health perspective.

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Creating Markets for Fair Trade Gifts: An Interview with Priya Haji of World of Good

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So the problem that happened was that a lot of organizations were saying, "Well we don't have a standard way of pricing. Holly has now been out meeting with the International Labor Organization and thinking about different ways that you really help create empowerment for women who work in informal markets. It doesn't work that way.

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