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Let’s All Pull Together: Reflections from Harambee 2023

Candid

Uplifting historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) Shaw University, located in Raleigh, NC, was the first HBCU organized in the South and is the birthplace of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). At Howard University, we used to sing the song during convocation.

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How Nonprofits Have Reframed Their Messaging in the Wake of COVID-19

Connection Cafe

Closures and social distancing measures have wiped out organizations that didn’t have a rainy day fund. In March we launched a dedicated Boys and Girls Clubs COVID-19 relief fund. That effort was concentrated around raising funds and awareness for the work that our national organization and local clubs are leading.

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The Steep Challenges of Philanthropy to the Muslim World

Tech Soup

In its nearly 1,400 year history the civilization of Islam has developed immense diversity. The project is active in Iraq and Kenya. Global University of Islamic Finance , in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, is working on developing Islamic oriented socially conscious investing in cooperation with Sharia law.

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Sheroes You Should Know: Inspiring Stories for #WomensHistoryMonth

EveryAction

Whether quietly spearheading some of the world's most groundbreaking scientific and medical research or not-so-quietly leading revolutions on the battlefield, our history is ripe with stories of ferocious, adventurous, enlightened, and persistent women. Fund their work! Gabriela Mistral. Sheroes in the Arts. Lorraine Hansberry.

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Ari Derfel & Eric Fenster, Back to Earth Podcast Interview Transcription

Have Fun - Do Good

So the brief history is that Back to Earth was originated with a vision that Eric Fenster had when he was on a vision quest in the Owl's Head Mountains in. And he and I were working together at the time at the University of California at San Francisco. a clearer picture of what we're doing now. near Death Valley, California.

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Nonprofit Technology News for March 2014

Tech Soup

It is 2025 according to a new report by the nonprofit Pew Research Center and Elon University in North Carolina. The Pew/Elon University prediction is non-partisan, however, and is based on the views of 2,558 experts and technology builders about where we will stand by the year 2025. NPTech Contests and Awards. What the heck.

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Leaders in Nonprofit Technology: Daniel Ben-Horin

Tech Soup

With initial funding of $2,500, he started the CompuMentor Project to match computer enthusiast volunteers called computer mentors with Bay Area nonprofits that needed the help. He took a psychology degree from the University of Chicago in 1969 and became a reporter and columnist for the Arizona Republic newspaper in Phoenix.