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Trainer’s Notebook: #Tech2Empower Peru

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Greetings from Cusco, Peru! I am honored to be working with Wake International on their Tech2Empower Program in Cusco, Peru. Our group of advisors includes 20 impressive women from 8 technology companies who are sharing their skills and expertise with local women entrepreneurs help them to scale their businesses.

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Traveling the world, meeting startups: What We learned

The Next Web

The main observation of differences between Silicon Valley and emerging tech hubs in the rest of the world is access to early stage seed funding and international press. The internet has no barriers when it comes to reaching an international user base and these startups are capitalizing on being able to have a global reach.

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3 New Year’s Rituals for Nonprofit Professionals to Build Resilience

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I made it to the 1000K level for United, in part, due to too many International trips, including teaching a master class and workshop session at the IFC-Asia in Bangkok, teaching a workshop in Brasil for Ford Motor Company Leadership Fellowship Program, and Tech2Empower in Peru.

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Youth Programs Benefit from Microsoft Donations

Tech Soup

Speaking of impact, London, England-based Childreach International works in partnership with local communities in the developing world to help improve children’s access to healthcare, education, child rights, and protection. In the past year, Childreach International has impacted the lives of over 70,000 children.

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Our EveryAction Hero: World Central Kitchen

Everyaction

It opened up the question of what roles chefs can play in international development. One of our first programs is our culinary school in Port-Au-Prince, which helps train aspiring chefs from Haiti and give them the skills they need to obtain jobs in Haiti’s growing tourism industry. We're currently active in 10 different countries.

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Interview with My Dad, Tom Aageson, Co-Founder, Global Center for Cultural Entrepreneurship

Have Fun - Do Good

He is also the co-founder of the International Folk Art Market. Before moving to Santa Fe, he was the Director of Aid to Artisans , an international artisan enterprise development NGO. We developed an international competition that always had very prestigious juries. She's been in the International Folk Art Market.

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Need Hands-on Help? NetSquared's Free Workshops Are in Your Community

Tech Soup

In Peru, the group explored how Azure can help NGOs and in Tanzania , people learned about the concept of cloud productivity services. The targets need to be linked like so: --> Jump to events in North America or go international with events in. For spring 2017, we're focused on nonprofit cloud services. Africa and Middle East.