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10 Questions …. Kate Behncken, global head, Microsoft Philanthropies

The NonProfit Times

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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Closing racial wealth gaps with community land trusts 

Candid

Beyond making us less competitive in the global economy, growing wealth inequality puts our democracy at risk; in a nation of “haves” and “have nots,” elite interests are completely removed from the needs of regular people. Two are looking specifically at one viable strategy for doing so: community land trusts.

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Empowering Young Voices Globally in the Fight for Climate Justice

Saleforce Nonprofit

In recent years, the global youth climate action movement has risen up to demand that world leaders listen to science and mandate climate and environmental education. As a result, educators have an important opportunity to harness and facilitate this passion by connecting students to the global citizen science community.

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Why Vulnerable Kids Depend on Government & Big Tech Getting Data Privacy Laws Right

Saleforce Nonprofit

Despite the need to address this gap, PhotoDNA and related tools are currently facing attacks from both tech sector policies (like expanded adoption of end-to-end encryption ) and government regulation (such as the European Union’s ePrivacy Directive ). In 2019, NCMEC reflected on “ explosive growth ” in CyberTipline reporting, with 18.4

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Taking a Deeper Look at the “Social” Piece of ESG (Environmental Social Governance)

sgEngage

In our most recent white paper, “ Exploring Environmental Social Governance ” we include a section that picks apart the pieces of ESG, including a list of some of the items under the “social” category. Blackbaud is a global company. As well, this year we published our first ESG results to the financial community.

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International Leadership, Women’s Issues, and Branding—A Conversation With Allison K. Summers, CAE

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Zonta International, where Allison served as Executive Director* and Chief Staff Executive, was honored with the 2021 ASAE Summit Award for the UNFPA-UNICEFF Global Program to End Child Marriage. An expert on branding startups, executive leadership, governance, and more, Allison has deep roots in the association community.

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Global philanthropy responds to the Ukraine crisis

Candid

Governments have also directed hundreds of millions of dollars in assistance for Ukraine. More than 15% of total grant funding is for the Jewish community in Ukraine. The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) estimates that some 18 million people will ultimately become affected, including 6.7

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