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

Saleforce Nonprofit

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. Each of these groups provided insights into the challenge, determined a focus area where technology can help, and developed a solution.

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Improve Your Fundraising Approach and Skills at NetSquared Meetups

Tech Soup

Mason, Ohio: Help Create an App for Homeless to Manage Money More Effectively. Seattle, Washington: What You Need to Know About Board Governance. Matloding, South Africa: Technology for Rural Development. Decatur, Illinois: Free and Low-Cost Resources for Nonprofit Software. Wednesday, October 11, 2017.

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Big Vision Podcast: Steve Williams from POWER

Have Fun - Do Good

At the time, the Federal government had just signed the welfare deform legislation, pushing millions of welfare recipients from welfare to work. The industry -- the federal government, and the state government specifically exclude domestic workers as classes of workers to be protected by labor rights legislation.

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Sheroes You Should Know: Inspiring Stories for #WomensHistoryMonth

EveryAction

Along with earning her PhD (she is credited as the first woman in East and Central Africa to do so), Maathai taught at the university level, worked in the Kenya government, and founded the Greenbelt Movement. Wangari Maathai was a renowned environmental political activist in Kenya. Do you like the sound of powerful political women?

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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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