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Youth community service: Belonging, reciprocity, and agency 

Candid

Activities they considered “service” included “working with others to make the community or campus a better place” (81%), “acting to benefit the common good” (80%), “everyday acts of kindness” (76%), “acting to raise awareness about a campus, community, or global problem” (72%), and “working with others to address social inequality” (68%).

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Guest Post: Stories of Volunteer Managers, Technology, and the Pandemic

Twenty Hats

It’s no secret that this was a bumpy transition for many of us, exacerbated by the stress and grief of a global pandemic. It was their employees in Chicago and Atlanta. Then, suddenly, we were all shuffled into our homes and our dependence on these technologies went into hyperdrive. It wasn’t!

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Funding & Grant Resources For Women’s Empowerment Organizations

Bloomerang

Chicago Foundation for Women. Global Fund for Women. Wallace Global Fund. Areas served: Baltimore, Chicago, Hawai?i, Chicago Foundation For Women. Areas served: Chicago metropolitan area. The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation. 100 Women Charitable Foundation. New Venture Fund. The Patrina Foundation.

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2021 Funding & Grant Resources For Women’s Empowerment Organizations

Kindful

Chicago Foundation for Women. Global Fund for Women. Wallace Global Fund. Areas served: Baltimore, Chicago, Hawai?i, Chicago Foundation For Women. Areas served: Chicago metropolitan area. The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation. 100 Women Charitable Foundation. New Venture Fund. The Patrina Foundation.

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Get Help in Telling the Story of Your Nonprofit's Impact

Tech Soup

If you don't have a local group (I can help fix that problem! ), there are also free online guides and a global Twitter chat October 5 using the hashtag #storymakers2017. Chicago, Illinois: Making Tech Accessible to Nonprofits. Chicago, Illinois: Net Neutrality. Mahikeng, South Africa: Rural Tech Empowerment.

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Live Blog Post from MacArthur Foundation: Virtual World Event on Philanthropy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Fanton: "Our first instinct was to create an island and a replica of our office building in Chicago and announce ourselves. Open spaces like the Internet are always going to be about empowerment and you need to have tolerance. Teen Listening Party and Global Kids coverage. We got advice not to do that. What's your advice?

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Using Photography to Change the World: An Interview with Paola Gianturco

Have Fun - Do Good

She is donating 100 percent of the royalties from the book to the Global Fund for Women. Britt Bravo: In so many of the groups you profiled, the women were using the arts for education, empowerment, or healing. Fortunately, the Field Museum in Chicago mounted an exhibit of the photographs for In Her Hands.