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

Kindful

Mission: Girls Write Nashville is a nonprofit songwriting mentorship program based in Nashville, TN, that cultivates empowered expression and positive community for teen girls. Impacting: Empowerment through music education. Impacting: Gender equity in the music industry. Headquarters in: Washington, D.C. 500 Women Scientists.

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October Awareness: Breast Cancer Awareness Month

Qgiv

If you want to support breast cancer patients and survivors, volunteering at hospitals or for organizations that are dedicated to the fight against breast cancer is a great way to celebrate Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Zero Breast Cancer. Final thoughts.

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Symantec Donation Safeguards Computer Labs for Students

Tech Soup

It aims to provide a gateway towards empowerment, educational, and employment opportunities to lead a fulfilling, prosperous, and purposeful life. Smooth Transition began working to reach at-risk teens early — before they dropped out of high school or left the foster care system. Smooth Transition, Inc., Breaking Harmful Cycles.

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Caravan Studios Showcases Diverse Apps for Social Good

Tech Soup

The city's OpenData goals are to improve city services for residents and businesses, produce jobs, enhance economic opportunities, and increase resident engagement and empowerment. With Concrn, volunteer responders are trained in crisis intervention and mediation by professionals, sign up for on-call shifts, and respond to text alerts.

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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. Why I Don''t Use Volunteers Speaker: Liza J. Dyer, Volunteer Program Coordinator, Multnomah County Library.

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Meditations on Relevance, Part 3: Who Decides What's Relevant?

Museum 2.0

Find representatives of this community--staff, volunteers, visitors, trusted partners--and learn more about their experiences. Here are two examples: Our Youth Programs Manager, Emily Hope Dobkin, wanted to find a way to support teens at the museum. It's rooted in the assets and needs of creative teens in our County.

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The Participatory Museum, Five Years Later

Museum 2.0

Every time we encourage a volunteer to launch her own collections research, or empower teens to launch their own program series, or invite new partners into our projects, we invite them to participate. Empowerment? But I''ve learned that humans can be agents of scale too. That participation is powerful and scalable.