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Announcing Our Second Impact Labs Cohort on Zero Hunger: Supporting Small-Scale Farmers Globally

Saleforce Nonprofit

Hunger is a global issue that affects everyone, everywhere. Impact Labs convenes community experts, or fellows, across sectors to co-create new technology solutions to support specific issue areas, including homelessness , equity in education , and climate justice. An estimated 811 million people are hungry globally.

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

Tech Soup

If you don't have a local group (I can help fix that problem! ), there are also free online guides and a global Twitter chat October 5 using the hashtag #storymakers2017. Mason, Ohio: Help Create an App for Homeless to Manage Money More Effectively. Mahikeng, South Africa: Rural Tech Empowerment.

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Big Vision Podcast: Steve Williams from POWER

Have Fun - Do Good

If you look at the history in South Africa, and the movement to end the apartheid regime, or if you look at the revolution in Cuba, where literally the island was essentially a playground for rich people from the United States. Steve Williams: When I was in college I did a lot of service work around homelessness issues.

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Volunteering in (Belated) Honor of National Volunteer Week!

NTEN

NTEN’s Education Manager, Julia Smith volunteered at Upwardly Global in Chicago, where she did mock interviews. Upwardly Global helps immigrants to rebuild their professional careers in the U.S. nten staff one brick schoolhouse supplies upwardly global volunteer'

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Sheroes You Should Know: Inspiring Stories for #WomensHistoryMonth

EveryAction

Along with her work as an aquatic biologist, her book, Silent Spring , is largely credited for advancing the global environmental movement worldwide , inspiring the rise of ecofeminism and many feminist scientists. You can thank marine biologist and writer Rachel Carson for that. Rosalind Franklin. Charlotte Cooper. Future Sheroes.

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Solutionary Women: Alli Chagi-Starr, Ilyse Hogue, Melinda Kramer and Reem Rahim

Have Fun - Do Good

You don't want to write about everything, because then people won't find you in the same way as when they search on Google about "homelessness issues", or "the environment." We introduced rooibos and honeybush from South Africa, which was never heard of in America. It's best to pick a topic that's sort of a niche topic, or.

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