Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Technology that provides that progress across all of your areas of focus and internal departments connects you to those findings faster. . Foster a data culture, and a testing culture . Takeaway #2: All decision-making should be powered by data . Know your audience . Success is bridging the gap between data and strategy .

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Organization Disaster Boston Blackbaud 26

Museum 2.0

APRIL 29, 2015

We had incredible success transforming our institution into a vibrant cultural center. We are unapologetic about focusing local. Focusing local helps us define our community by identity. We focus on people who are culturally curious, actively creative… but may not see a traditional arts institution as a place for them.

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Build Community Museum Artist 20

Bloomerang

APRIL 7, 2022

This funder invests in and strengthens the capacity of women-led movements to advance meaningful social, cultural, and economic change in women’s lives, specifically across three areas: Economic Justice, Safety, and Women’s Health. Activities can be local, regional, or, in some instances, statewide. Areas served: US. eWomen Foundation.

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Empowerment Grant Fund Resource 83

Kindful

MARCH 5, 2021

This funder invests in and strengthens the capacity of women-led movements to advance meaningful social, cultural, and economic change in women’s lives, specifically across three areas: Economic Justice, Safety, and Women’s Health. Activities can be local, regional, or, in some instances, statewide. Areas served: US. eWomen Foundation.

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Empowerment Grant Fund Resource 104

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

Her knowledge of the country and the culture made it easier to localize the curriculum. However, to localize it, Stephanie incorporated Pakistani imagery, including a photo of Arfa Karim, the youngest female Microsoft ‘expert’ in Pakistan, to represent fly. We even localized and mixed up our energizers and icebreakers.

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Pakistan NGO Network Exercise 113

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 8, 2008

As more and more politicians dive into the world of Social Media, the way we communicate and interact with our local and national representatives is changing. Lessons in Local Tech: Sustainable Food 2.0 With a culture of open source designs, Instructables, wikis, and blogs, we can start an international movement.

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Comment Open Source Social Media Drupal 50

Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 8, 2007

"Many people imagine international health as this fashionable, sexy, and fun job. The CHAG is given considerable liberty with what they do, but they must rely mostly on local resources and advocacy. But I love Mali, and particularly the communality and generosity evident in Malian culture. Most of it is administration.

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Mali Project Change NGO 40

Cloud 4 Good

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

As an initiative of Tufts University’s Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, New Entry works locally, regionally, and nationwide to strengthen food systems by supporting new farmers. The results thus far have been staggering, with NESFP now able to monetize the volunteer hours related to the cases and grants that fund them.

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Community Cancer Giving Grant 72

Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 19, 2009

Erickson founded FORGE (Facilitating Opportunities for Refugee Growth and Empowerment) in 2003 when she was a 20 year-old junior studying public policy at Stanford University. We bring communities together to identify their top problems, needs, and priorities, and solve them internally.

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Interview Sudan Africa Congo 40

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!?" I firmly believe that all people have something meaningful to contribute to our communities, cultural work, and society at large--including youth. Teenagers are in the middle.

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Teen Arts Classroom Student 25

Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 28, 2006

From her Berkeley-based office, Melinda Kramer facilitates an international network of women leaders. Melinda Kramer: Women's Global Green Action Network is an international organization that is linking and empowering women working in environmental sustainability around the world. It's called the Biosand Water Filter.

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Green Global Action Network 40

Saleforce Nonprofit

JULY 12, 2022

For funders, nonprofits, and institutions across industries to effectively participate in the global movement to break the cycle of intergenerational poverty, they must first transform internal organizational culture and capacity to advance access, equity, and justice. Disrupt Power Imbalances.

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Intergenerational Culture Accessibility Global 52

Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 29, 2009

The idea is now that we're getting stronger and more flexible, more conscious, more patient, and more aware, we need to take those very qualities that we're learning in the yoga room, and begin to truly apply them in our families, in our local community, and into our global family as well. I knew that the work that I was doing was effective.

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Interview Cambodia Children Uganda 46

Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 28, 2007

I've now documented women's lives in 40 countries, over the past 10 or 12 years, and everywhere I went, I found women who were helping each other, local women. Britt Bravo: In so many of the groups you profiled, the women were using the arts for education, empowerment, or healing. And, their weapon is poetry.

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Photography Interview Zimbabwe Change 40