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How Mentorship Can Break Down Racial Divides

Saleforce Nonprofit

It was updated for National Mentoring Month in January 2023. I received a full academic scholarship to Jackson State in Mississippi, a historically black university with an accredited journalism department. We’ve seen how social justice and unrest have pulled our nation apart. That was long before Oprah.

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Amanda believes in collaboration, empowerment, trust and wicked-good customer service. About Author. She has served as the vice president and creative director of a national fundraising firm and chief development officer in arts and higher education. She has loved every minute of it. Laura McDonald. billion capital campaign.

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On the Future of Braille: Thoughts by Radical Braille Advocates

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Betsy Beaumon I recently had the honor to speak at the first-ever Braille Summit , hosted on June 19-21, 2013 by the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (NLS) and Perkins School for the Blind. and critical for the inclusion and empowerment of people in developing countries.

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A Webinar: Measuring the Networked Nonprofit

Care2

Measuring the Networked Nonprofit , co-authored by Beth Kanter and KD Paine, is an entertaining and useful book about the two processes that nonprofits need for success in a networked age: to become networked and measurement. About the Presenters: Beth Kanter -- Author, Measuring the Networked Nonprofit. Ashley has a M.A.

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Bringing Millions of Books to Billions of People: Making the Book Truly Accessible

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Literacy and access to knowledge underpins just about every social good, from education, to economic development, to health, to women’s empowerment, democracy and respect for human rights. Third, the print book is not universally accessible. Many books are never published because of the costs.

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Nonprofit Technology News: Help for Charities to Develop Mobile Giving Capacity

Tech Soup

In the midst of a pivotal moment in patient engagement and empowerment, our microphone has been turned off. and is the eighth largest economy in the world, so it is expected that the law will become de facto national legislation. None-the-less, as California goes, so goes the nation – again.

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Schwab Social Entrepreneurs Summit 2007

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Schwab Foundation board members Paolo Coehlo (the noted Brazilian author), Zanelle Mbeki (first lady of South Africa) and Hilde Schwab, the co-founder of the Schwab Foundation. The panel was moderated by Greg Dees of Duke University, one of the leading business school professors tracking and analyzing the social entrepreneurship movement.

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