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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Qgiv

JULY 19, 2023

Government The government provides grants at federal, state, and local levels to ease the burden of overhead or administration costs for nonprofits like yours. For example, the federal government often provides funding to state and local governments for formula grants that benefit federal programs. The Ford Foundation granted $1.07

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Tech Soup

JULY 8, 2011

should enable power in members and facilitate a global impact of highly local activity.” Guardian’s ACTIVATE is an annual conference that aims to bring together leaders in media, government and technology to a ctivatedly. discuss approaches to addressing nagging challenges of the current. “Leadership must be strategic.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Have you interacted with your local government, or spoken to your peers about their programs? Do you have a pulse on what the most pressing local needs are at this moment? What about local nonprofits or community foundations; do you know who to reach out to if needed? Where does your organization sit in your community?

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Whether by leveraging employee match, deploying disaster assistance funds or investing in local non-profits through our local grants program, we leverage our resources to contribute to society. We also work with local food banks across each of our global offices. Gender Equality (Goal 5).

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 29, 2018

The program relies on multiple partners including the city of Boston, Boston University, local nonprofits, EVERFI , Boston’s Center for Teen Empowerment , and others. That can mean anything from building a program to address unemployment in your community, to rebuilding an infrastructure after a natural disaster. .

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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. Mobilizing 1 million people!

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The AI Alignment Forum

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

These are scenarios where humanitys continued empowerment rests on some combination of (a) AIs not choosing to seek power, and (b) the success of active efforts to restrict their options for doing so. Local vs. global vulnerability We can further distinguish between what Ill call local vs. global vulnerability conditions.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 27, 2025

Perez Tomas , left, at his local seed bank. If theres a disaster or emergency, they are there as a kind of insurance for farmers. Such a homogenized food system raises the risk of crop failures , pests and diseases , malnutrition , and the extinction of unique and ancient plant species. They protect biodiversity. They protect incomes.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 8, 2025

Hotels, for example, employ a large number of local people, offering economic access and opportunity for communities and often underrepresented groups, particularly women. Tourism can bring economic and social benefits to women, but the lack of fair and equitable systems often results in exploitation and degradation to local communities.

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