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The Networked NGO in Pakistan

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However, to localize it, Stephanie incorporated Pakistani imagery, including a photo of Arfa Karim, the youngest female Microsoft ‘expert’ in Pakistan, to represent fly. Grantees Implement A Modest and Realistic Action Learning Pilot. There is also an self-assessment exercise.

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Empowering Change: Caitlin Cohen of the Sigida Keneyali Project

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Caitlin tells it like it is--the nitty gritty of starting up an NGO, and why she believes it is important to help the people you are serving to create the change they want to see, not to create the change for them. The biggest challenge is definitely the fact that an “NGO” in Mali is seen as a “waritigi” (money owner).

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TechCamp: Empowering Women Through Technology

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“Anyone who works for the State Department knows that they work for women and for the advancement and empowerment of women,” said Alec Ross , Secretary Clinton’s Special Advisor for Innovation, with pride at the opening of TechCamp Tel Aviv. link] (photo by me). The spirit of his statement inspired the entire seminar.

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What is your “Individual Social Responsibility (ISR)?

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After finishing a four-day intensive training in Delhi for the Networked NGO , I stayed on a few days in India to visit colleague, Rufina Fernandez, who I met when she was the CEO of the Nasscom Foundation when she brought me to India to speak at the leadership conference and teach workshops back in 2010. Others may donate.

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