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Women’s History Month: 11 Nonprofits That Are Advocating For Female Empowerment

Kindful

Purchase a t-shirt, bag, or phone case. Mission: Omaha Girls Rock’s mission is to empower youth to find their unique voice through music education, performance, and creativity. Impacting: Empowerment through music education. Headquarters in: East Lansing, MI. How To Support Helping Women Period. Rejuvenating Women.

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Nonprofit Technology News: Help for Charities to Develop Mobile Giving Capacity

Tech Soup

As always, there’s plenty more news like how Facebook’s news feed policy is not good news for charities, how smartphone kill switch legislation will affect your organization, how things like your own perspiration will run your phone someday and some more NPTech quick hits. million phones were stolen in the U.S.,

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Igniting the 15NTC stage at lightning speed

NTEN

Transcending "Social:" Visibility and Empowerment In An Uber-Mega-Meta Self-Conscious Age Speaker: Jianda Johnson, Business and Resource Development Specialist, Guadalupe Montessori School. But they aren’t going to cure cancer, reduce hunger, or improve pre-K education.

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8 Apps That May (Actually) Change San Francisco

Tech Soup

Additionally, many of the apps were built using Twilio.org's SMS and voice APIs. This app was the winner of a Cities for Financial Empowerment Fund and Capital One hackathon. Data Collecting and Mapping. The first presentation was from Prashant Singh, the CTO and co-founder of LocalData.

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The Digital Divide Doesn't Exist

NTEN

Cell phones and wireless technology mean rural areas don't need expensive landlines. Bharat Mehra claims, in New Media & Society , that "The internet has tremendous potential to achieve greater social equity and empowerment and improve everyday life for those on the margins of society. But do you know this?

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The Networked NGO in Pakistan

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

100% of participants implement an action learning project that uses measurement to help improve their practice, share insights with peers, and identify opportunities to amplify each other’s voices through social media. I selected the latter because all participants are on Facebook and can access it on their mobile phones.

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Bringing Women a Global Voice: Jensine Larsen, World Pulse

Have Fun - Do Good

"I would wake up in the middle of the night and still hear their voices. I just had to take that chance." - Jensine Larsen Jensine Larsen is the Founder and CEO of World Pulse , a global media and communication network devoted to bringing women a global voice. We unite those voices to accelerate change. She can speak out.

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