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International Women’s Day: Using Technology to Empower Women and Girls

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

March 8th is International Women’s Day. Early last year my colleague Noel Dickover and his co-workers at PeaceTech Lab organized a workshop in Mumbai, India to help activists use technology and media to prevent gender based violence. Here’s two programs that use technology to support women and girls and are an inspiration.

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12 Early Adopters of the.NGO and.ONG Domains

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Mission: To improve access and quality of education for 4 million children living in underserved communities in India. Mission: To help eradicate extreme poverty through community development projects in urban sanitation, water filtration, health, alternative energy, and economic empowerment. World Vision International ● wvi.ngo.

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Your Tweet Can Leverage A 10 Cent Donation to Care March 2-5th

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It was launched by Dr. Mani who raised money for heart surgeries for poor kids in India. The Twitter campaign honors International Women’s Day and the upcoming event A Powerful Noise Live! I support empowerment of women worldwide with this tweet. We're now seeing the concept of a Twitter "Tweet-a-thon" evolve.

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

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This was originally posted on the GuideStar International blog. The International Telecommunications Union (ITU). For those nonprofits working on sustainable development issues - NextDrop uses mobile technology to monitor and improve water flow in urban India and subsequent sustainable development. a device only seen on TV!

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Get Help in Telling the Story of Your Nonprofit's Impact

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The targets need to be linked like so: --> Jump to events in North America , or go international with events in. Mumbai, India: Storymakers 2017. Mahikeng, South Africa: Rural Tech Empowerment. Check each month that there are events in each region, and comment out the un-necessary regions. The link need to be like so: Africa.

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Bringing Women a Global Voice: Jensine Larsen, World Pulse

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It had hit India. I actually started out with International Studies, and more academic. A woman journalist from Sudan had her story about the flogging of a woman who was wearing pants get picked up, and it made international headlines. We brought professional empowerment mentors and coaches, and also professional editors.

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Creating Markets for Fair Trade Gifts: An Interview with Priya Haji of World of Good

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Holly has now been out meeting with the International Labor Organization and thinking about different ways that you really help create empowerment for women who work in informal markets. So, that is a very important accomplishment that we had over the last year-and-a-half.

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