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Transgender Day of Visibility: ‘I want to be seen & accepted as I am’

Saleforce Nonprofit

In India, even queer movies involve the selective privileging of a few communities from across the LGBTQIA+ spectrum, with little to no representation of transgenderness. The umbrella term we use in India to generalize trans experiences is ‘Hijra.’ In ancient India, Hijras were once venerated as Demigods.

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UNICEF Shares How You Can Support India Today Amidst the COVID-19 Surge

Saleforce Nonprofit

By: Richard Beighton, Chief of Resource Mobilization and Partnerships, UNICEF India. India has become the first country to report more than 400,000 new coronavirus cases in a single day. Although over 160 million shots have been given, almost 32 million of these were second vaccines, meaning that only 10% of India’s 1.3

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Four Resources Nonprofits Should Check Out

Care2

Cost structures are different and often text messaging is cheap while calls are expensive. In India, for example, “missed calls” have become a campaign tool. Greenpeace India has used missed calls as a cheap and quick way to engage people and build lists.

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Print Access for All: Anna Reid in Chennai

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Reflections on an internship with Bookshare.org in Chennai, India Made possible through support from the Amherst College Center for Community Engagement Anna Reid, religion major, class of 2010 Anna Reid with employees of Worth Trust, a South Indian organization that provides vocational training and employment for people with disabilities.

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Accessibility Excitement in Geneva

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The Stakeholders Platform and the TIGAR project were time-limited and needed to be replaced by a new structure. I had the chance to brief the WIPO team working on these issues about what Bookshare is doing internationally right now, such as our work bringing Bookshare to India as a prototype of what we could be doing in other countries.

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Afraid of the Office? Top 3 Keys To Make Your Association a Kick-ass Place to Work According to History

Association TV

In the mid-19th Century, the East India Company needed a physical space to store their piles and piles of ledgers, forms and other important artifacts that managed their transactions all over the world. One disgruntled employee even diarized his distaste for the East India Company when it did away with the “yearly turtle feast.”

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Afraid of the Office? Top 3 Keys To Make Your Association a Kick-ass Place to Work According to History

Association TV

Correction error: In the podcast, I suggest the East India Company first moved into their office in Britain in the 19th Century, when it was in fact the 18th Century. One disgruntled employee even diarized his distaste for the East India Company when it did away with the “yearly turtle feast.”

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