Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

If you don't have a local group (I can help fix that problem! ), there are also free online guides and a global Twitter chat October 5 using the hashtag #storymakers2017. Kisii, Kenya: Storymakers 2017 NetSquared Kisii. Mombasa, Kenya: Storytelling in Mombasa NetSquared. Maseno, Kenya: Storymakers 2017 NetSquared Siaya.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 28, 2006

She is the co-founder and co-director of Women's Global Green Action Network , a nonprofit that cultivates global partnerships of grassroots women environmental leaders by providing access to communication tools, support services and networking capabilities. Below is a transcript of an interview with her from the Big Vision Podcast.

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Tech Soup

MAY 26, 2011

Here are just a few of the many examples of how the humble mobile is being used for development: For those nonprofits working on agricultural issues - The Kenya Agricultural Commodity Exchange (Kace) , provides crop growers with the very latest commodity information via SMS and has helped farmers to quadruple earnings. increase in a.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2012

Empowerment for our participants comes from connecting to an inner wisdom that is often kept hidden from public view, but is a place of extraordinary innate strength and well being. She then went on to hold several Traveling Postcards workshops both in her own community, and then in Kenya! First of all, you can make a postcard!

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 23, 2016

A host of cultural, economic, social and infrastructural barriers keep women locked out from the empowerment potential of Internet access. But while global experts search for solutions to bridge the worsening digital divide for women, it turns out the answers are at our fingertips.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2010

I just had to take that chance." - Jensine Larsen Jensine Larsen is the Founder and CEO of World Pulse , a global media and communication network devoted to bringing women a global voice. Jensine Larsen: World Pulse is a global media enterprise fully devoted to bringing women a global voice.

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Tableau

MARCH 10, 2022

While some progress is being made, the 2022 SDG Gender Index found that progress at a global level has been “too slow, too fragile and too fragmented” between 2015 and 2020. For example, the report shows the second biggest increase between 2015 and 2020 globally, with ‘fast progress,’ covering indicators like women’s political participation.

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Tableau

MARCH 10, 2022

While some progress is being made, the 2022 SDG Gender Index found that progress at a global level has been “too slow, too fragile and too fragmented” between 2015 and 2020. For example, the report shows the second biggest increase between 2015 and 2020 globally, with ‘fast progress,’ covering indicators like women’s political participation.

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OCTOBER 6, 2010

The essence of Dining for Women is connection, education, and self-empowerment. We had a group that went to Kenya to visit BOMA Fund , and we went to Uganda to visit the BeadforLife program. I took my 14-year-old with me to Kenya this past March, and it was a life-changing experience. You've also added a travel program.

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JUNE 19, 2009

After meeting her at the Global Engagement Summer last spring, I knew I wanted to grab her for an interview before she became too famous. 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.

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JUNE 29, 2006

How do we stop violence and how do we eradicate poverty in our communities, and uplift people, and how do we also do that in a way that respects the environment, that looks at innovation, and that addresses issues like global warming and peak-oil and environmental racism? How do we build new visions and programs that serve everybody?

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NOVEMBER 28, 2007

She is donating 100 percent of the royalties from the book to the Global Fund for Women. Britt Bravo: In so many of the groups you profiled, the women were using the arts for education, empowerment, or healing. PG: I think that the one that comes to mind first is a wonderful picture of women in Kenya who are growing corn.

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APRIL 2, 2008

Kavita Ramdas, President and CEO, Global Fund for Women. Kavita Ramdas is the President and CEO of the nonprofit, the Global Fund for Women. I think it's worth it (: Kavita Ramdas: The Global Fund for Women is the largest independent, publicly supported grant-making foundation to advance women's human rights internationally.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 27, 2025

Three-quarters of the worlds plant genetic diversity has been lost over the last century, according to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, with only 30 plants fueling 95% of the calories that all humans consume globally. Perez Tomas , left, at his local seed bank.

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