Tech Soup

AUGUST 8, 2013

Cash grants are just part of the picture, though. In the case of Microsoft, their current mission is youth empowerment. Target ($147 million cash, and $76 million in products). Citigroup ($137 million cash). The median cash amount given in 2012 among those companies surveyed was $25 million. percent in 2012.

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Philanthropy Survey Grant Giving 44

Connection Cafe

AUGUST 6, 2020

In reimagining these events, we must take care to harness the feelings of empowerment, of recognition, and of community that are so cherished about non-competitive events, not only on “event day”, but all season long. By removing the ability to have a walk in its traditional sense, we lose the pinnacle of the event season.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 12, 2011

The overall message should be one of empowerment, not control and restriction. Focus on the big picture and create guidelines that can be applied across many social media tools, such as. Keep it simple and on the short side. Commit to high standards of professionalism when representing the organization online.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 7, 2009

Empowerment is unconditional. Some will write, others take pictures or make movies. A set of principles and guidelines which we believe underpin the most successful ‘social by social’ projects. People want control. People make technology work. Respect how people choose to communicate. Enthusiasts are more important than experts.

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Tech Soup

MAY 26, 2011

Print pictures. opportunities, improve social empowerment, reduce the need to undertake. So w hat else can you do with a mobile? Short Message Service (SMS). Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS). MP3 player. Get directions. Have your text messages read back to you. Scan in a business card. Text message a landline phone. Alarm clock.

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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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Greater Giving

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

o Empowerment and choice. It’s okay to include complexities that paint a fuller picture of the storyteller. Help everyone on your staff understand how important stories are for effective fundraising and exactly what your process is for protecting and empowering storytellers. ? o Trustworthiness and transparency. o Peer support.

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Everyaction

JULY 23, 2018

Our work started by focusing on long term empowerment projects. For the past 5 or 6 years we've had a small but steady group of supporters who are primarily invested in our empowerment projects. It really showcases our efforts moving from beyond just relief to empowerment. Our culinary school is just one example.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 19, 2008

The design thinking behind this is that people are output-driven and want to see how their selections form a composite picture. Bottom line, this comparison has made me realize that the thing that excites me about data visualizations is this empowerment. The general wisdom is that people will be more invested if it's "about me."

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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. The projects can range from preschools, to libraries and computer training centers, to women empowerment programs. Mainly it was luck.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 11, 2014

A Little Frame Goes A Long Way People like picture frames. But like the blank labels or empty frames we leave out on the table, pop up museums will continue to invite and support public conversation, personal empowerment, and open-ended narratives. For example, we had a pop up at an arboretum on Growth. They’re eye-catching.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 28, 2007

"[T]hose of us who take pictures, even for our own personal trips, and share those pictures with friends, because we have that skill, also have an obligation to help people understand each other more completely. Britt Bravo: In so many of the groups you profiled, the women were using the arts for education, empowerment, or healing.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 29, 2009

Just recently I saw the greatest picture of myself, which unfortunately is an old picture. I just found this random roll at the bottom of the drawer, and it's a picture of me standing on a platform at a pro choice rally. I look at that picture often because it's a perfect example of what I never ever want to do again.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

However, I thought I’d back up the theory with a brief picture of what this kind of travel looks like in practice. Took pictures of the lunar eclipse next to the Empire State Building(!) Lastly, we travel to advocate for the world to change, from a position of authority based on the change our organizations are already delivering.

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