Kindful

MARCH 1, 2021

Plus we’ll include resources and data about women in philanthropy that we compiled with nonprofits in mind. Mission: Omaha Girls Rock’s mission is to empower youth to find their unique voice through music education, performance, and creativity. Impacting: Empowerment through music education. Boulanger Initiative.

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Empowerment Omaha History Nashville 120

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.

Empowerment 55

Empowerment Help Children Culture 55

Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

." ~ Caroline Lovell, Founder, Traveling Postcards Traveling Postcards facilitates the creation of handmade art postcards that are hand delivered all over the world to bringing awareness and voice to women and girls whose lives have suffered from isolation, violence, or repression. Each card is a piece of art in my mind.

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Costa Rica Interview Afghanistan Artist 60

NTEN

AUGUST 25, 2009

The mission statement of One Laptop per Child is artfully constructed: "To create educational opportunities for the world's poorest children by providing each child with a rugged, low-cost, low-power, connected laptop with content and software designed for collaborative, joyful, self-empowered learning." So, be mindful.

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Digital Laptop Mali Myspace 74

Museum 2.0

JULY 6, 2016

One of the nonprofits that inspires me locally here in Santa Cruz is a youth empowerment and food justice organization called "Food, What!?" Most of these youth have bigger issues on their minds: addiction, gang violence, social anxiety, the possibility that they may not graduate from high school or get a good job.

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Teen Arts Classroom Student 25

Saleforce Nonprofit

MARCH 8, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic is disproportionately affecting women and girls around the world, which threatens the gains made in the past decades in advancing women’s economic empowerment, health, rights, and safety. With that in mind, here are three other organizations that are working to break the bias for girls and women across the world.

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Costa Rica Game Change Uganda 111

Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 29, 2009

SC: I'd started working with an organization called YouthAIDS which provides services and products to children worldwide who are affected by the HIV/AIDS crisis. We wanted to encourage them to find their voice, and to become leaders in their own right in their own local community. You shouldn't beat your wives and your children."

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Interview Cambodia Children Uganda 46