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Citizen Philanthropy: Delivering Impactful Pro Bono Support From Anywhere

Saleforce Nonprofit

Venture 2 Impact leveraged technology to continue providing nonprofit partners and volunteers around the world with necessary tools and training to advance their mission despite challenges created by the pandemic. This concept addresses the needs of nonprofits for continued support, training, mentorship, and engagement with their communities.

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Get Help in Telling the Story of Your Nonprofit's Impact

Tech Soup

Mukono, Uganda. Second Term 2017 Solar Mobile Computer Training Meetup for Kibiribiri Primary School. Second Term 2017 Solar Mobile Computer Training Meetup for Saint John Kaama Primary. Kampala, Uganda: Adobe Spark: Storytelling That Matters. Kampala, Uganda: Teaching Youths the Dangers of the Internet.

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Women Ingenuity is Powering Solutions for the Digital Divide

Connection Cafe

A host of cultural, economic, social and infrastructural barriers keep women locked out from the empowerment potential of Internet access. We launched a global crowdsourcing campaign to collect homegrown solutions and ideas to spread digital empowerment. That’s just the beginning.

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Empowering Refugees: Interview with Kjerstin Erickson of FORGE

Have Fun - Do Good

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. It had been bombed.

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Girls' Night Out with a Twist: Dining for Women and the Power of Giving Circles

Have Fun - Do Good

Last month [August], we featured BeadforLife , which is an organization that sells paper beads made by women in Uganda. All that money goes back to support the beaders in Uganda. The essence of Dining for Women is connection, education, and self-empowerment. Actually, they're jewelry (e.g. You've also added a travel program.

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Off the Mat, Into the World: An Interview with Seane Corn

Have Fun - Do Good

On one level, Off the Mat, Into the World is bridging the yogis and activism through training programs. Now that we're back, we're onto the next project which is the Uganda Seva Challenge where we will be building a birthing center. We talk about how to do consensus training in groups. They came to me with the, "now what."

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Mr. Jim Goes to Washington (and New York, and Nairobi, and Seoul, and Kampala, and Boston…)

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Kampala, Uganda The Sixth Africa Forum was the main reason for my Africa trip. Sulaiman Madada, Uganda's Minister of State for Gender, Labour and Social Development The conference was ably keynoted by Professor Ruth Okediji, who played a key role in negotiating the Marrakesh Treaty on behalf of the African delegations.

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