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An Interview With Facebook’s Libby Leffler: Facebook and Nonprofits

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I sat down for an interview to learn more about her work at Facebook and tips for nonprofits. In 2012, the themes of inequality and the “forgotten one billion” permeated nearly every discussion about the global community. What is your current job at Facebook? In 2010, 35 year-old Gabe Canales was diagnosed with prostate cancer.

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Win 2 Tickets to the Global Fund for Women 20th Anniversary Gala

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Many of you contacted me to say that you enjoyed my interview with Kavita Ramdas , the President and CEO of the Global Fund for Women. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the Honorable President of Liberia, as well as women leaders from Colombia, South Africa, Malaysia, Liberia, Bosnia/Herzogovina and Egypt will be honored at the event.

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Pick up the Sunday NYT Magazine: It's All About Empowering, Funding & Educating Women

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The issue includes an interview with Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton , an interview with the President of Liberia, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, a piece about Women and Philanthropy by Lisa Belkin, and an excerpt from Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn.

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President's Update: Summer 2008

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Benetech's newest project is a software tool called Miradi that helps environmental practitioners design, manage, monitor and learn from their projects to more effectively meet the needs of global biodiversity. Our work in Liberia, funded by the State Department in support of the Truth Commission (TRC) continues.

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Sheroes You Should Know: Inspiring Stories for #WomensHistoryMonth

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Along with her work as an aquatic biologist, her book, Silent Spring , is largely credited for advancing the global environmental movement worldwide , inspiring the rise of ecofeminism and many feminist scientists. After her interview with Barbara Walters, Jazz Jennings' rise has been nothing short of meteoric. Rosalind Franklin.

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In Search of Hope: The Global Diaries of Mariane Pearl

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She traveled over 100,000 miles and interviewed 12 women activists who are working on solutions to everything from sex trafficking, to global warming, to AIDS. In 2006, journalist Mariane Pearl traveled the globe for Glamour magazine to profile women who are changing the world.

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Women Activists Profiled by Mariane Pearl in Glamour

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Global Diary is a monthly column written by journalist, Mariane Pearl, the widow of Daniel Pearl, who was kidnapped and murdered in 2002 by terrorists in Pakistan. Liberia: Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the president of Liberia, and Africa's first elected female head of state.

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