Tech Soup

JUNE 1, 2017

In Peru, the group explored how Azure can help NGOs and in Tanzania , people learned about the concept of cloud productivity services. New Orleans, Louisiana: Glossophobics Anonymous (or How to Hone your Public Speaking Skills). For spring 2017, we're focused on nonprofit cloud services. Monday, June 5, 2017.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2008

I especially appreciate Maryam's speaker wrangling skills. I can't begin to express my gratitude to Chris and Ponzi and the whole gnomedex family for making this conference experience incredible for me - it ranks on my best ever list of tech conferences. I've spoken at a lot of them, and the care and attention I got was above and beyond.

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Blogher Peru China Conference 50

Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 29, 2010

For example, I'd seen potters in Peru whose tradition was to make clay water jars for their community. You have talent, you have raw materials, all the skills, but what you don't have is a product that's ready for a different market. They'd bring them into the market, and sell them. Their market for clay water jars disappeared.

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Culture Global Interview New Mexico 51

Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 15, 2008

When women have access to specific skills, training, and education, all of a sudden their survival and livelihood statistics shoot way up, not only their own, but entire communities. It was written in very scribbled Nepali, her literacy skills were incredibly rudimentary, but what she ended up writing was a piece of journalism.

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Interview Nepal Journal San Francisco 40

Everyaction

JULY 23, 2018

One of our first programs is our culinary school in Port-Au-Prince, which helps train aspiring chefs from Haiti and give them the skills they need to obtain jobs in Haiti’s growing tourism industry. These people were just ordinary chefs who realized that the skills they have can actually make an incredible impact.

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Puerto Rico Haiti Guatemala Hawaii 75

Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 1, 2011

I’ve coached a massage therapist from Japan and a jewelry designer from Peru. I’ve been a guest presenter during their 16-week program where the women learn English and entrepreneurial skills.

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Brain Fun Business Peru 51

Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 20, 2008

And you have your number one skill, being a farmer. If you have a number one skill, and one asset, a plot of land, the best business you can get into is to use those two things to start a new business. I applied for a Fulbright Fellowship to go back to Peru. You're not going to Peru."

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Interview Tools Africa Kenya 40

Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

That means building in more structure and more discipline, and for myself, it was a lot of letting go of doing everything and knowing how to do it, you know, figuring everything out and really bringing in people who bring that different set of skills. I ended up going into bodywork to have a skill that I could perform with my hands.

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Voice Global Saudi Arabia Journal 69

Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 1, 2006

Before I left for Peru, I did an interview for the Big Vision Podcast with Jonah Sachs, the Principal of Free Range Studios , an advertising and marketing firm with offices in Washington DC and Berkeley, California that specializes in non-profits and socially responsible businesses.

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Storytelling Causes Interview Free 40

Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 19, 2006

It's at Carnegie Hall, and the place fills up, and it's very dramatic, and there's actually quite a lot of press attention as well as shareholder attention, and to hear this woman, this mother, from the forests of Peru, be able to tell her story in such an impassioned way, and to hear the hush fall over the room, and watch people's minds open for just (..)

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