{"id":3263,"date":"2013-07-29T18:06:23","date_gmt":"2013-07-29T18:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.africlub.net\/awdf\/?p=3263"},"modified":"2015-08-12T10:24:21","modified_gmt":"2015-08-12T10:24:21","slug":"the-african-womens-development-fund-receives-us32970-00-worth-of-microsoft-software-through-the-microsoft-citizenship-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/awdf.org\/OldSite\/the-african-womens-development-fund-receives-us32970-00-worth-of-microsoft-software-through-the-microsoft-citizenship-program\/","title":{"rendered":"The African Women&#8217;s Development Fund receives US$32,970.00 worth of Microsoft software through the Microsoft Citizenship Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<span lang=\"en\">(<i>29th July 2013, African Women&#8217;s Development Fund, Accra<\/i>):<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en\">The African Women&#8217;s Development Fund (AWDF) is pleased to announce that the institution has recently benefited from an in kind contribution of Microsoft software valued at US$32,970.00.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en\">This donation was provided through the Microsoft Citizenship program, and with the support of our sister organisation, the African Women&#8217;s Development Fund USA (AWDF-USA) as part of its African Social Impact Multi-Media Initiative (ASIMI) to promote the technology capacity of the African Women&#8217;s Movement<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en\">Theo Sowa, Chief Executive Officer of AWDF states, \u201cAWDF appreciates this generous gift from Microsoft which will go a long way towards strengthening AWDF\u2019s technological systems. We consider this to be the start of a longer term partnership with AWDF which we know will have additional benefits for our network of over 1000 grantee partners across the continent\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"># # #<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en\"><b>About the African Women&#8217;s Development Fund<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en\">Over the past ten years, the African Women&#8217;s Development Fund (AWDF) has blazed a trail for women\u2019s rights and philanthropy across the African continent.\u00a0 AWDF is an African, not for profit, grantmaking organisation. Since the start of operations in 2001, AWDF has provided over US$19 million in grants to more than 1000 women\u2019s organisations in 42 African countries. AWDF\u2019s grant making processes are uniquely designed to meet the needs of African women and activities include the provision of small and larger grants to African women\u2019s organisations, capacity building support and a strong focus on advocacy and movement building.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en\">AWDF contact:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en\">Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah (Programme Officer for Communications)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en\">Tel: +233 302 521 257 (Ghana)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en\">Email: <a href=\"mailto:nana@africlub.net\/awdf\">nana@africlub.net\/awdf<\/a>, Website: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.africlub.net\/awdf\">www.africlub.net\/awdf<\/a><\/span>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"># # #<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; # # #<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[998,65,149,999,1000],"class_list":["post-3263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press","tag-african-social-impact-multi-media-initiative","tag-awdf","tag-awdf-usa","tag-microsoft-citizenship-program","tag-microsoft-software"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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