Jin In, Founding Director of 4Girls Glocal Leadership (4GGL), sat down with Mightycause to talk about how her upbringing led her to become an advocate for girls’ empowerment and ultimately create 4GGL. In celebration of Back to School Month on Mightycause, Jin talks about the power of education to transform the future of girls in […]
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IPDC provides free arts camps to children who have experienced a natural and/or socio-economic disasters. We specifically provide learning experiences for low-income children during school breaks. Summer is a prime time for fun and relaxation for most students. But for the nation’s most vulnerable students, summer often means a learning loss.
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A pencil. It is wood. It is graphite. It’s a perfect cylinder that fits in the grasp of any hand.
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This is a guest blog post from Monique Schmidt, Program Director at the Akilah Institute for Women. Throughout August, Mightycause will be featuring giving opportunities related to education, mentoring, and literacy as part of Back to School Month Between the ages of 5-8, when I went back to school, I got a new box of
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The year is AD 2010. Today, we can proudly say that we’ve eradicated smallpox, the disease responsible for the death of half a billion people in the last century. Computerized voices notify us when to make a left turn in cars and on roads that were non-existent when our forefathers signed the Constitution. Our phones are half the size of the ones we used a decade age. By many accounts, the world is saner, more civilized, more advanced than it has ever been. Yet, more people are forced into slavery today than at any point in human history. Trafficking of humans is the fastest growing criminal industry in the world and, after drug trafficking, the second largest.
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“We began walking the road to change. It’s about restoring hope in different things you do in the community, but it’s also about instilling pride. With pride comes hope.”
We spotlight select nonprofit groups this week in honor of social justice and the need to protect civil rights for everyone.
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The YMCA has joined a growing list of the nation’s largest nonprofits that are reinventing themselves with a new brand and logo. The organization, headquartered in Chicago, Ill., will call itself “The Y,” what it’s commonly referred to as, and the national office has started the change, to which all of its 2,680 local affiliates should transition within five years.
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The champion of the “mouse” from America will adopt a village of rat-eaters in India.
Microsoft chairman and philanthropist Bill Gates will tomorrow make his maiden visit to Bihar in sweltering weather and adopt impoverished Gularia village on behalf of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which focuses on health and learning.
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