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Ways We Can All Help Advance Women’s and Girls’ Empowerment

Connection Cafe

Women’s and girls’ empowerment is a sweeping topic, defined and shaped by family beliefs and cultural norms in the community and country where one lives. Some people associate the empowerment of women and girls primarily with challenges faced in communities where poverty and lack of access to education determine one’s level of empowerment.

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Does Your Nonprofit Need Some Data Therapy?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

If you know of or have examples of data literacy curriculum for nonprofits or data empowerment for community organization, let me know in the comments. Lucy Bernholz, who also participated in the meeting, wrote up this great post about the space/movement that is in the center of her research).

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A critique of Just Another Emperor

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Social enterprise uses market forces primarily to serve disadvantaged communities through creating jobs and opportunity, not through squeezing profits out of them. The policy recommendations in Just Another Emperor seek to ensure that no good deed goes unpunished.

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Research Friday: Human Capital Performance Bonds. What are they? How do they work?

ASU Lodestar Center

Calls for scaling have been amplified by the recent economic recession, which brought increased demand for social services coupled with shrinking government dollars. Municipal bonds (munis) are debt obligations issued by government entities. The past decade has been rife with ideas on how to scale up successful nonprofit organizations.

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What are advantages to collaboration between nonprofit and for-profit organizations?

ASU Lodestar Center

Since the 1980s, nonprofit, for-profit and public organizations have formed partnerships to produce and distribute various goods and services. In addition, the interdependence between nonprofits, corporations and governments will continue to intensify during the 21st century. Illustration by Jocelyn Ruiz. Austin and M.

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This founder raised millions to build Fair, a neobank for immigrants

TechCrunch

The fintech also practices ESG investing, which measures the sustainability of an investment and its overall impact in three specific categories: environmental, social and corporate governance. of profits to refugee missions globally, as well as racial economic empowerment initiatives.

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An Evolution of Evaluation in Grantmaking With a Participatory Lens

sgEngage

You cannot have empowerment without participation: empowerment is not something we ‘do’ to other people, but is itself a participatory process that engages people in reflection and inquiry to understand the power they have, and to take action for change as they define it.”