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Rockstar Nairobi Social Entrepreneur

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

She’s an incredible social entrepreneur I just visited with in Nairobi, Kenya. In 2008, we were the first customer of Samasource as they were getting started. They made a great team: Steve was an enthusiastic salesman/CEO, passionate about building up Kenya through good IT jobs, and Carol ran the team.

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An Interview With Paull Young from Charity:Water

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I first came across @paullyoung in September, 2008 when he implemented a birthday campaign as part of charity:water’s September campaign. In 2007, 92 people gave up their September birthdays to bring water to a hospital in Kenya. In 2008, even more people joined and raised over $1 million for clean water projects in Ethiopia.

Interview 101
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Punching Up Your Action Alerts and Online Fundraising Appeals - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

April 20, 2009 | Rosalyn Lemieux Allyson After a Kenya based youth participation group had been flown by Oxfam to a seminar in Oxford, UK a determined campaigner for premature babies, Patrick wrote to the e-campaigners forum e-mail list. April 20, 2009 | Garth Moore Copyright © 2008, Care2.com All rights reserved.

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