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Great reads from around the web on May 20th

Amy Sample Ward

"After running successful community websites in London's challenging Kings Cross I wanted to help other communities achieve the same sense of empowerment and communication. " DemocracyInAction Green Grants - DemocracyInAction Green Empowers grants provide organizations with the Salsa platform for free.

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Aurolab

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

David Green calls the approach forensic accounting: if you truly want to serve as many people as possible, analyze the most expensive item involved and then figure out how much it really costs to make. Part of the systematic Aravind Hospital approach is manufacturing its own supplied through its Aurolab social enterprise affiliate.

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New York metro transit systems add on-demand sign language interpreters

Engadget

Convo and its partners had been conducting pilot tests at Penn Station, Times Square and the Port Authority terminal for months, and said in a press release that in general, users reported feelings of empowerment, inclusion and newfound confidence in interacting with transit staff.

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ChatGPT & Google Gemini Identify Four Essentials for Successful Nonprofit Giving Campaigns

Nonprofit Tech for Good

20% GREEN: Urgency & Specificity Creating a sense of urgency through one-day campaigns or crisis-based appeals drove immediate donor action. Success Factors: Tangible Impact: Donors directly contribute to a sustainable solution, creating a sense of empowerment and long-term impact.

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Personalized nutrition startup Zoe closes out Series B at $53M total raise

TechCrunch

Basic stuff like eat your greens, avoid processed foods and cut down (or out) sugar? And through that empowerment through insight then we say hey, now we’ll give you this course, it’s very simple, it’s like a game — and we’ll given you all these tools to combine different foods, make foods work for you.

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Empowering Change: Caitlin Cohen of the Sigida Keneyali Project

Have Fun - Do Good

Empowerment” is a word that has become completely cheapened through overuse. However, empowerment is what we strive to create. Empowerment is not something that happens during two-year grants analyzed by logframes. Photos of Caitlin Cohen and "Woman with Green Door Sikoro" provided by Caitlin Cohen.

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Shouldn’t the Word Phone Be Removed from Mobile? The Use of the Mobile by Nonprofits for Development

Tech Soup

GREEN to 6363 to get your sapling.” opportunities, improve social empowerment, reduce the need to undertake. For nonprofits seeking to increase supporters/volunteers. Using the text message “Don’t you wish your city was cleaner and. Begin by planting free saplings offered by Greenpeace. increase in a.

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