Candid

DECEMBER 23, 2021

I distinctly remember one blue ribbon panel of policy elites in which the secretary of the sponsoring organization, who came from Brazil’s historically discriminated Northeast, looked at Franklin Thomas and Susan Beresford, and said: “Do you mean to tell me that man and that woman are the two most powerful people in the Ford Foundation?

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Brazil South Africa Foundation Classes 122

Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 10, 2022

For example, in the Eastern Cape of South Africa, the landscape resembles what many people consider a typical African savanna, with a few trees every hundred meters or so and brown grasslands in between. People need to know what is possible, and they need to see how it works in real life.

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Action Technology New York South Africa 72

Kindful

AUGUST 9, 2021

Areas served: US, India, South Africa. They make education grants to help all children (especially those in underserved communities) develop the knowledge, skills, and behaviors they need to succeed in college, career pathways, and life. . The education program’s developmental target is the first eight years of life.

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Education Grant Fund Resource 111

Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

In recent years, we have seen the growth of technology interventions that help small-scale farmers access life-saving information to protect their livelihoods and their families. He started his career at a digital solutions start-up in South Africa, and for the past 4 years, he’s been part of the WFP technology team.

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Hunger Global Impact Rwanda 52

ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

Nelson Mandela spent four-plus decades as an activist and freedom fighter and 27 years in prison because the demeaning National Party policy of apartheid in South Africa impeded black South Africans’ ability to live with human dignity. Reading about other social activists forces me to examine my own life.

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International Americorp Action South Africa 83

Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

Your way may be starting an organic catering company, or painting about issues that are important to you, or getting out on the streets and protesting, or maybe working with policy; there are all kinds of different work. In terms of my own life, as I write in Loyal to the Sky , I grew up in apartheid South Africa.

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Interview South Africa Iowa India 40

Museum 2.0

JUNE 20, 2008

I heard from CEOs whose center is the only one in their entire country (Chile), educators who work with students who have never encountered a computer before entering the science center (South Africa), and web managers whose sites are locked behind federal government firewalls and draconian restrictions (Australia).

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Reflection South Africa Guinea Museum 20