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New Girl Effect Video: What Are Your Favorite NGO's Serving Girls?

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If you'd like to be a part of spreading the word, post about The Girl Effect on your blog before Universal Children's Day (Nov. What are some of your favorite NGO's and projects helping girls go to, and stay in school? 20) , and add a link to your post on Tara's site.

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Martín Burt’s Best Kept Secret

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Fundación Paraguaya was the country’s first microfinance program and first development NGO. His activities with the World Economic Forum include participation on the Education Global Agenda Council and he is a university professor of social entrepreneurship in the U.S. and Africa. Congratulations, Martín!

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Metrics for Virtual Worlds: Can you measure engagement?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

via the Mind Blizzard Blog I learned of a new Dutch NGO island, called "Goede Doelen eiland" ( good causes island ). The island is sponsored by Dutch bankers ABN Amro and the Free University of Amsterdam (VUA) and was build by students of the VUA. " Steve Bridger.

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Empowering Change: Caitlin Cohen of the Sigida Keneyali Project

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"Many people imagine international health as this fashionable, sexy, and fun job. 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. Most of it is administration.

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Empowering Refugees: Interview with Kjerstin Erickson of FORGE

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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. He showed so much leadership and promise that we ended up sponsoring him to a university through our FORGE education fund.

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Mobile, Voice-Operated Everything, and Security, Oh My! Top Nonprofit Tech for 2016

Tech Soup

Here's our look at the most interesting and fun things that happened in nonprofit technology this year. The migrant humanitarian crisis has been rocking governments and dominating NGO humanitarian work for the last two years. For more #nptech news, check out part 1 of this blog series. Technology for Good.

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Solutionary Women: Heddy Nam

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To that end, we recently held a conference at Columbia University called “Teaching About Conflict, Building Towards Peace: A Comparative Forum.” If you know a Solutionary Woman who works at a nonprofit or NGO who you think I should profile, please email me at britt at brittbravo dot com with their name, organization and contact info.

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