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Let’s All Pull Together: Reflections from Harambee 2023

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While the research revealed a disappointing reality, it also highlighted opportunities for foundations and HBCUs to work together to make a greater impact. She and my great-grandfather worked as sharecroppers while raising eight children. Panelist Dr. Steven E.

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Client Spotlight: National Society of Black Engineers

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Their work impacts over 200,000 professionals and aspiring engineers every year. Students would meet daily to work on homework together, study for exams, and support each other in their academic pursuits. Background. In 1971, two students–Edward E. Barnette, Jr.

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What if no one wants to help the people you are helping?

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This summer, I had the privilege of travelling to Montego Bay, Jamaica to lead a Board retreat for the Jamaican Christian School for the Deaf and Servant’s Heart Jamaica. Both are amazing nonprofit organizations doing mighty work. Not so in Jamaica. Palm with Jamaican Pride overlooking the bay.

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International Human Rights Day 2011

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The Benetech Human Rights Program (HRP) is hard at work to ensure that technology and science best meet the needs of human rights defenders in these critical times. Both organizations work in the Caribbean, where sexual minorities face widespread violence, bigotry and marginalization.

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40+ Unforgettable Live Auction Items that Sell Well

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Here are a few types of memorabilia that work well for auctions: Sports jerseys Sports equipment (footballs, baseballs, baseball gloves, etc.) Choose intriguing warm-weather locations like Belize, Jamaica, Australia, or Greece. Gathering all of the ingredients for a stellar charcuterie board can take a lot of work and become pricey.

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Creating the Business of My Dreams

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If you’re a consultant to nonprofit organizations, chances are good that you started your business so that you could work for yourself and enjoy the freedom that comes with it. I started my consulting business because I wanted to work for myself. Now, I only work with 1-on-1 clients when I want to.

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iLaw: Cyber Strategy for a Developing Nation

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In 1998, during the embryonic stages of the project, this focus turned to a concept called "Reverence for Life," a non-demonational philsophy of self-development which had taken root in Jamaica's prisons. He imagines a Jamaica ten years in 2008, ten years after the initial discussions about this project began. Cyberschool.

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