Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Mary Mwende told us about her journey from Mombasa, Kenya, to being one of ten girls chosen for the Global Give Back Circle , a mentoring and empowerment program. From here she was selected to take a Microsoft ICT course, where she learned about the power of technology for connecting people around the world.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Nairobi, Kenya Next I headed to Nairobi, Kenya. She is a University of Minnesota law school professor who was born in Africa and is a terrific advocate for the Treaty and its empowerment of the blind community. So, we fill in for them. My first visit was with Carol Wanjiku, the CEO of our outsourcing partner Daproim.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

Kisii, Kenya: Storymakers 2017 NetSquared Kisii. Mombasa, Kenya: Storytelling in Mombasa NetSquared. Kakamega, Kenya: Stand for Sharing Your Story — NetSquared Kakamega. Maseno, Kenya: Storymakers 2017 NetSquared Siaya. Mahikeng, South Africa: Rural Tech Empowerment. Saturday, September 9, 2017.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 26, 2022

Like the Hyderabad police, TechCrunch has learned that the Fintech Association of Consumer Empowerment (FACE) shared a list of loan apps with Google to get them pulled from the Play Store. Just like India, people in countries including Mexico and Kenya are also facing abuse and harassment instances through loan apps.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2009

The dual purpose was to promote Comm's recently published book and to raise money for a ministry that provides clean water in Kenya. I support empowerment of women worldwide with this tweet. Last month, Joel Comm sponsored a Tweet-a-thon. event that was larger in scale, included celebrities, and live streaming. apowerfulnoise [link].

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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.

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The NonProfit Times

MAY 31, 2024

Her dedication to amplifying marginalized voices, paired with her vision for political empowerment, shows what it means to lead with purpose and passion. In 2023, I was with IOM in a refugee camp in Northern Kenya where there were over 300,000 refugees escaping drought, persecution, and violence. Clearly, we are a technology company.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

If your angle is using this training as an outlet for local empowerment and development, then you very much want to bring in mentorship. We brought professional empowerment mentors and coaches, and also professional editors. We even get Skypes from a woman from Kenya named Leah, who was one of our first grassroots women reporters.

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Have Fun - Do Good

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. We launched a global crowdsourcing campaign to collect homegrown solutions and ideas to spread digital empowerment.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 19, 2009

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. The projects can range from preschools, to libraries and computer training centers, to women empowerment programs.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 29, 2006

If you'd like more information about Art in Action camps or to contribute to a youth scholarship, email xiomara@riseup.net , and if you like the opening music, it was an excerpt from Mango Delight by Kenya Masala, and if you'd like more information about his work and music go to www.sourceconsultinggroup.com.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 28, 2006

Melinda: One of the interesting things about working within women's empowerment as it relates to environmental sustainability is I've really learned the ways that we talk about environmentalism is as this siloed issue. Britt: What drives you to do this work rather than other work?

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Tableau

MARCH 10, 2022

The need for disaggregated and well-used data and evidence is key for empowerment and equality. That's why Tableau Foundation is also supporting the Data Journalism Fellow Program in India and Kenya. This has become more palpable and advocacy efforts continue to be bolstered to address systematic inequalities and data gaps. .

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Tableau

MARCH 10, 2022

The need for disaggregated and well-used data and evidence is key for empowerment and equality. That's why Tableau Foundation is also supporting the Data Journalism Fellow Program in India and Kenya. This has become more palpable and advocacy efforts continue to be bolstered to address systematic inequalities and data gaps. .

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Have Fun - Do Good

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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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 28, 2007

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. I went to 15 countries on five continents, and interviewed and photographed 129 women.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 27, 2025

A 2023 study co-authored by Vernooy focusing on community banks in Kenya and Uganda found that 2,630 smallholder farmers protected 72 unique crop and tree species, serving as a platform for community action and womens empowerment. They become more than a physical area, they increase interchange, sharing of seeds, said Vernooy.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 2, 2008

Increasingly, rape of women is being used as a tool of war, not just in large scale wars as we saw in the Serbian and Bosnian conflict, but as we saw recently in Kenya and in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. How do you know that you are making a difference or an impact; how do you measure that?

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