The NonProfit Times

MAY 31, 2024

Kate Behncken is corporate vice president, global head of Microsoft Philanthropies, a global, multi-disciplinary team that brings together corporate social responsibility, sales and engineering functions. A good portion of her working life is traveling to see the implementation of Microsoft Philanthropies’ work.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 7, 2017

Women’s and girls’ empowerment is a sweeping topic, defined and shaped by family beliefs and cultural norms in the community and country where one lives. Some people associate the empowerment of women and girls primarily with challenges faced in communities where poverty and lack of access to education determine one’s level of empowerment.

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Empowerment Help Children Culture 55

sgEngage

OCTOBER 9, 2023

As the art critic John Berger said in his book Ways of Seeing , “We only see what we look at. At the global Disability Rights Fund (DRF), for example, the first MEL framework was developed at a gathering of staff, advisors, and donors—the majority of whom were activists with disabilities from the Global South.

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Participatory Evaluation Empowerment Grant 91

Tech Soup

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Our Time (Facebook) is a nonprofit dedicated to youth empowerment through the voting process. Teen Book Finder (iOS), developed by the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA), helps teens, parents, teachers, and librarians find the best books and media for teens. This app was developed as a Coding4Fun Community Project.

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Teen Netsquared Student Library 65

Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

For health and safety, or simply because programs and services are not operating, many volunteer roles across all three types of non-profits have been suspended. From discussions with our global networks, these dynamics are experienced throughout the developed world. Many volunteers have also stepped back due to health concerns.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 20, 2006

Anne Firth Murray While on vacation I read several books, but the one that stood out the most was Paradigm Found: Leading and Managing for Positive Change by Anne Firth Murray, the founder of the Global Fund for Women. We love the groups book clubs, Weight Watchers , Dining for Women -- BlogHer !

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 28, 2006

She is the co-founder and co-director of Women's Global Green Action Network , a nonprofit that cultivates global partnerships of grassroots women environmental leaders by providing access to communication tools, support services and networking capabilities. Below is a transcript of an interview with her from the Big Vision Podcast.

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