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Shouldn’t the Word Phone Be Removed from Mobile? The Use of the Mobile by Nonprofits for Development

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developing economies in Asia and Africa. For nonprofits working on fundraising - Comic Relief in the United Kingdom raised over £7m from text message donations in 2011. opportunities, improve social empowerment, reduce the need to undertake. skip Africa because of costs. not have some of these features. developers.

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Creating Learning Experiences That Connect, Inspire, and Engage

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Photo by Beth Kanter, Net Funders Conference, October, 2011. I am very excited about upcoming peer learning projects that I’m working on in 2012, including several for Packard grantees in India, Pakistan, and Africa as well as the e-Mediat project in the Middle East.

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Girls' Night Out with a Twist: Dining for Women and the Power of Giving Circles

Have Fun - Do Good

The essence of Dining for Women is connection, education, and self-empowerment. In 2007, we went to India, and we visited a program called Matrichaya , which we'll be supporting again in January of 2011. This past March, two different groups went to Africa. Did you say where you're going in 2011? It was wonderful.

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Mr. Jim Goes to Washington (and New York, and Nairobi, and Seoul, and Kampala, and Boston…)

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Kampala, Uganda The Sixth Africa Forum was the main reason for my Africa trip. The Africa Forum is the premier meeting of blindness groups across sub-Saharan Africa, and it’s held roughly every three years. It was the third Africa Forum I’ve attended: I went to Accra, Ghana, in 2011 and South Africa in 2004.

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