Tech Soup

MAY 7, 2014

There, she builds technology that connects local communities to resources that help them solve problems and impact issues. Human trafficking survivors are better able to access the kinds of resources necessary to get safe and stable housing, social services, and economic empowerment. Non-traditional Groups, Innovative Ideas.

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New Jersey Proposal Law Empowerment 44

Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

young people are developing their own creative solutions to problems. awareness and skills development in children, teens, and young adults. participants through identifying a problem and developing a. greater access for youth and foster empowerment through skills. technological solution. Youth-Created Apps.

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Develop Oakland Teen Empowerment 59

NonProfit Hub

JULY 22, 2015

Make-A-Wish grants ill children once-in-a-lifetime opportunities that come in all shapes and sizes (from meeting famous athletes to becoming Batman for a day ). Helping some of the world’s most impoverished children in Liberia is a complex problem, but ChildFund International receives help from an important partner back in the U.S.:

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Tech Soup

JULY 8, 2011

most fundamental problems that people in less favourable environments. Being a novice in the Third Sector, my interest in this conference was mainly about. the opportunity it gave me to hear leaders in the sector discuss the challenges faced at the grassroots level; the. face and how we could help solve them. However, the surprise was that.

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NTEN

AUGUST 25, 2009

It's the definite article that causes problems, implying there's an easy way to think about the issues surrounding the inequitable access to technology -- and perhaps an easy solution. Setting aside the problems with his numbers -- he notes that "While only 3.6% Brett Meyer, NTEN. The digital divide doesn't exist.

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Digital Laptop Mali Myspace 74

Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 8, 2007

You did a survey that revealed that the village's most serious health problem is malaria. Malaria is a proximal problem… the real health problem is the extraordinary poverty in a peri-urban desert. The real problem is social exclusion. Empowerment” is a word that has become completely cheapened through overuse.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 28, 2006

I spent a number of years traveling and working in communities throughout China and Russia and Alaska, working with communities where the problems were right in their face. Britt: What brought you to this work? Melinda: I think about that a lot, because sometimes I stop what I am doing and I say, "How did I get here?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2012

Through his nonprofit, “ Technology for People ,” he has dedicated his life to girls (and boys) empowerment through technology. The man had been accused of beating his wife and children -domestic violence is a huge issue in many places of the world, and in rural India. The man denied it and left.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 2, 2007

So women cook, clean and take care of their children, and these are all uncompensated activities. So the problem that happened was that a lot of organizations were saying, "Well we don't have a standard way of pricing. The way that World of Good has really gone about this is, we have done it in a two-part model.

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Gift Marketing Interview Create 40

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2011

While I faced a difficult decision culling winners from the forty focused initiatives described in the entries, I selected the following based on their innovative and courageous approaches to a variety of social issues, from new types of housing for the underserved, to animal welfare, to women’s empowerment. We are NOT a shelter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 23, 2007

Photo by Santino Livoti One face to a problem moves us, millions overwhelm us. " There are links to several charities that provide support and assistance to children in developing countries. Another contributor to the site is Natalia who has shared some compelling photos of children beggars in from Afghanistan.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 13, 2009

At the recent Online Nonprofit Technology Conference , Edward Granger-Happ of Save the Children, shared some valuable insights on how nonprofits can work towards the sweet spot at the intersection of technology and mission by looking at the ever-important starting place: strategy and vision. So what can we do? Get ahead of the change.

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Technology Management Cisco NTEN 60

Saleforce Nonprofit

JULY 12, 2022

Before the global pandemic, intergenerational poverty and entrenched patterns of inequality dampened the future livelihoods of millions of children and their families across the globe. Strategies that advance equity and justice seek to address the full reality of communities rather than narrow solutions to solve social problems.

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Intergenerational Culture Accessibility Global 52

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. The Engage Network and Julia Butterfly Hill and Marianne Manilov and Alissa Hauser, they came to me with the solution to my problem. I raised a lot of money.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 28, 2007

These are grassroots organizations, and they were helping each other with the most intractable problems that face women everywhere: domestic violence, sex trafficking, disease, discrimination. Britt Bravo: In so many of the groups you profiled, the women were using the arts for education, empowerment, or healing.

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Photography Interview Zimbabwe Change 40

Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 2, 2008

I think what makes us unique is that we are really investing in women's leadership and women's creativity in developing local solutions to some of the world's most challenging problems. Women and their children are disproportionately victims of outside violence as well.

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