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Mastercard’s Girls4Tech™: Utilizing Employees’ Skills to Inspire Youth

Connection Cafe

Make it better than any program you’ve done before, make it global and make it for girls,” those were the instructions from Mastercard’s CEO Ajay Banga to Susan Warner, VP Global Volunteerism, in 2014. The company is committed to motivating young girls to build STEM skills that will help them become leaders of tomorrow.

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Why Tech Nonprofits Are Building Digital Tools for Racial Equity and Justice

Non Profit Quarterly

Along with educational opportunities, the nonprofit organization provides incarcerated individuals with a “record of their achievements that they can utilize in parole hearings or post-release to validate their skills and experience on the inside and provide steppingstones to a better life after incarceration,” Shoaf and Hicklin say.

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Learning To Lead

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Inspiring, humbling, motivating and instructional is how I describe the leadership book by Ron Williams , called, Learning To Lead: The Journey To Leading Yourself, Leading Others, And, Leading An Organization. Question : When should people start developing leadership skills? And, how do you find a mentor?

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Learning To Lead

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Inspiring, humbling, motivating and instructional is how I describe the new leadership book by Ron Williams , called, Learning To Lead: The Journey To Leading Yourself, Leading Others, And, Leading An Organization. Question : When should people start developing leadership skills? And, how do you find a mentor?

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Women Who Tech Around the World

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Yesterday, I had the honor of participating in the 4th annual Women Who Tech TeleSummit that brings together women breaking new ground in technology who use their tech savvy skills to transform the world and inspire change. This is an important employment skill for them. Originally from Kenya, she earned a B.A.

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Microsoft's YouthSpark Initiative Seeks to Close the Opportunity Divide

Tech Soup

Although the challenges differ by region, the outcome is the same everywhere: young people are simply not gaining the 21 st century skills and experience required for today's workforce. Through the program, the native San Franciscan learned valuable business skills, received tech training, and made job connections.

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Virtual Volunteer Mobilization Strategies That Can Solve Nonprofits’ Challenges During COVID-19

Connection Cafe

– Plan a weekly “teach in” series about COVID facts and advice. Facilitate a virtual gathering for supporters to make masks together, with instructions on material to buy. Facilitate virtual mentoring, college application review, or interview skills workshop, like Mission Graduates is doing. Urgent issues.

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