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. It had been bombed.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

An example of such an approach is the support of women’s economic empowerment in places like Uganda or Rwanda through leveraging technology for mobile-based training, business mentorship by local experts, and global skill-based volunteers.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MARCH 8, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic is disproportionately affecting women and girls around the world, which threatens the gains made in the past decades in advancing women’s economic empowerment, health, rights, and safety. With that in mind, here are three other organizations that are working to break the bias for girls and women across the world.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Last month [August], we featured BeadforLife , which is an organization that sells paper beads made by women in Uganda. All that money goes back to support the beaders in Uganda. The essence of Dining for Women is connection, education, and self-empowerment. Actually, they're jewelry (e.g. You've also added a travel program.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 29, 2009

Now that we're back, we're onto the next project which is the Uganda Seva Challenge where we will be building a birthing center. We'll be working in a series of orphanages with HIV/AIDS street children, as well working with YouthAIDS to learn more about the HIV/AIDS crisis in Uganda, and in Africa in general.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 20, 2009

Youth Empowerment with Social Media. If you are looking for more examples about social media and communications technologies applied to youth empowerment, here are some additional links/groups to check out: [link] (social media used as outreach about teen dating violence). View more presentations from Amy Sample ward.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 2, 2013

That said, in 2012 I had the opportunity to travel to Africa and Asia and from those travel experiences three themes emerged that inspired the selection of this year’s nonprofits: 1) Women’s and girls empowerment; 2) Conservation of wildlife and wild lands; and 3) Access to medical care. Gorilla Doctors :: @ GorillaDoctors.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2022

FinDev Canada participated in fundraising through 2X Canada, an impact investment facility driving the economic empowerment of low-income and underserved populations in sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean. The EEGF is managed by Triple Jump; an impact investment manager and advised by Persistent; and a climate venture builder.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Kampala, Uganda The Sixth Africa Forum was the main reason for my Africa trip. Sulaiman Madada, Uganda's Minister of State for Gender, Labour and Social Development The conference was ably keynoted by Professor Ruth Okediji, who played a key role in negotiating the Marrakesh Treaty on behalf of the African delegations.

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