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JANUARY 13, 2012

In 2008, she asked for advice about raising money to go to Africa to help support the first community access television station opening in Ghana. In 2008, I raised money to go to Africa to help support the first community access television station opening in Ghana. At that time I made a blog and raised $2,000 using Chipin.

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MAY 21, 2012

For example, in the villages of rural Africa where Camfed works, local community members play an essential role in helping girls succeed in school. Camfed fights poverty and AIDS in rural Africa by educating girls and providing them with economic and leadership opportunities when they leave school. Please share your thoughts!

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APRIL 21, 2003

Traditional African craftsmen are starting to sell their crafts to collectors on the other side of the globe thanks to E-Shop Africa. Here is a stunning example of how technology can bridge the digital divide and benefit traditional African artisans, struggling to exist.

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MAY 14, 2012

In the LinkedIn discussion, Suzanne McDonald gives the example of Coca Cola, which is funding AIDS prevention in Africa but being sued in India for contaminating groundwater. Is the work in Africa worth the lives of those in India? But a lot of money was raised for women’s health.

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OCTOBER 21, 2015

When Otieno learned he needed a fourth surgery for his cancer, he reached out to Zawadi Nyong’o who was also an Africa Cancer Foundation volunteer. To better understand why this campaign was successful, the Africa Cancer Foundation conducted donor research and prepared this report. This campaign is a great example.

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JULY 17, 2019

Alison founded a nonprofit doing development work in Africa. This week I interviewed long-time blog reader, Alison Lowndes who I first met via my blog as a regular commenter. We reconnected, of course, through a recent blog comment.

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DECEMBER 21, 2009

(Since Google didn't include a link on the page, I've included a list with links below) I'm curious how they came up with the list - a small committee within Google or did they crowdsource names internally?

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JUNE 25, 2014

Only 32 countries, mainly in Africa and Asia-Pacific, do not have any Twitter presence. The research is conducted annually by Burson-Marsteller and I was lucky enough to get an advanced copy of their study released today. They analyzed 645 government accounts in 161 countries.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Shipping costs are astronomical, and, depending on the items, it can be far less expensive to check items as excess baggage on flights with travelers coming to Easy Africa. They did not want to bring religious materials to Africa. The “missionaries have ruined the Africa” answer is also another easy out. Bring them the books.

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APRIL 24, 2012

We really appreciate these perspectives and, in the next few weeks, we’re featuring two more questions: 1) What is the best way to support a strong NGO sector in underserved countries or regions such as South Asia, the Western Pacific, or Sub-Saharan Africa? Funders: what have you tried in this space?

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OCTOBER 9, 2012

The “ Because I’m A Girl Campaign ” was to draw the world’s attention to educating girls worldwide by getting supporters to “raise their hands” on October 11th.

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JULY 12, 2008

Congratulations to Laurie Moy of Pearl of Africa. She was comment number 9 on the Book Giveaway Post and the number 9 was randomly selected from random.org

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JUNE 14, 2009

They are using FLIP Cameras and Camtasia editing software to product a series of videos of their deep field work in Africa. The video bloggers Marcus Prior their spokesperson from East Africa. The videos include a visit nutrition centres where school kids show up for their daily meals and get a taste of original Masai goat.

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APRIL 18, 2007

Addressing Africa???s Strengthening the Social Web in Africa [link]. 100 Innovators - the world's most important story has started to unfold [link]. A Global Neighbour Network: NABUUR.com [link]. A Light on Money and Politics: MAPLight.org [link]. s Problems Through Social Networking Sites [link]. Grassroots.org Toolbox [link].

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MAY 5, 2010

The fundraiser's goal to is to raise money for one amazing Mama who dreams of building a home for children in her village in Africa.

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DECEMBER 6, 2012

charity:water is known for being an innovator in social fundraising as well as its mission to have clean water. They received $5 million for water-monitoring technology at 4,000 wells across Africa to ensure better maintenance of and access to clean water for more than 1 million people. Paull Young told me later that this was something they (..)

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Peter has extensive international experience in Latin America and Africa and discussed the problems and solutions he sees from the ground. Microsoft commissioned a report with IYF chronicling the opportunity divide which was published in March this year.

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JANUARY 2, 2012

I will be working with a cluster of Packard grantees in Pakistan and India in collaboration with IIE.

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OCTOBER 31, 2006

Sub-Saharan Africa has been especially hard-hit by the epidemic. ???It million children under 15 living with HIV, two million are in sub-Saharan Africa,??? Although prevention is essential to half the spread of HIV/AIDS, an alarming 80 per cent of all young people still don???t t know how to protect themselves from the virus.

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JANUARY 13, 2011

I’ve had the opportunity to work in Canada, Australia, Cambodia, Romania, India, UK, and Africa and enjoy the extra dimension of understanding different cultures as part of the instructional and learning process. One thing I learned is that is okay to do “real-time translation,&# and to be transparent about.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

We heard that from Africa, India and Latin America. Heard what people in TechSoup Global were thinking along the way – what they agreed with and what they disagreed with. And here’s what I’m thinking about right now: We need to offer more precise solutions.

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JULY 10, 2009

Its fun to look at the petition and see people signed up from Djibouti to Brazil There is a cell phone component to the campaign that has caused it to really take off in South Africa. Check it out, [link]. . . . Stephanie McAuliffe is the Director of Human Resources at the Packard Foundation.

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DECEMBER 9, 2007

Photo by Life in Africa For this week's BlogHer Holiday Guide post, I needed to come up with a list of nonprofit organizations or causes that BlogHer readers may consider making a donation to as part of their year-end giving. Life in Africa. More than just a gift, LiA is an experience that makes Africa feel closer.

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MARCH 2, 2006

Sangonet , an organization that focuses on capacity building with ICT for NGOS in South Africa, recently announced the finalists for the NGO Web awards. There is also a virtual training centre where you can search for case studies from Southern Africa by theme, skills, genre, and other categories.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Their meeting featured a special conversation via Skype with girls in South Africa as part of the Girl Up Campaign’s emphasis on uniting girls around the world. These philanthroteens lead workshops on advocacy, communications and learned about their peers in developing countries.

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MARCH 8, 2016

It is an outrage that girls account for 74% of all new HIV infections among adolescents in Africa, and 40% of women on the continent suffer from anemia which results in 20% of maternal deaths. 2016 is the year that real money and reforms must start to right these wrongs.

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DECEMBER 19, 2007

So, in return, I'm plugging her cause - Life in Africa and this cause. One of my longtime flickr contacts, an artist named Darlene, just sent me a note that when her paycheck arrives, 10% is going to the Sharing Foundation. OMG, I can't believe this generosity. Is this an example of the virtual gift economy?

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FEBRUARY 9, 2009

In February 19th, Joel Comm has organized an event called " Tweetathon " on Twitter to promote and sell copies of his new book, Twitter Power: How to Dominate Your Market One Tweet at a Time and help a nonprofit that supports children in Africa, China, and India. The Water is Life project got underway to help children in Kenya last November.

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DECEMBER 18, 2008

If everyone who reads this - YOU - gives just $2, Charity: Water can build an entire water project for a school or hospital in Africa. I realized just $2 from each of my Twitter readers would be $25,000. Betaworks and Tipjoy. liked my idea and will 1) waive ALL fees for their “micropayments via Twitter” tool, and 2) match up to $10,000.

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MAY 11, 2011

When Cancer Council SA (that’s South Australia, not South Africa) started the Ambassador Project as an experiment in revitalizing volunteerism and community fundraising , jumping in to the social media pond was not even on the agenda. Wading into the social media pond … one step at a time guest post by Matt Sarre.

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DECEMBER 7, 2006

It was created by Roy Blumenthal , an artist who lives in South Africa with many talents! By Roy Blumenthal. This is my pay it forward portrait. I met Roy via the portrait he did for Dave Wallace's web site and communicated via flickr.

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AUGUST 4, 2007

I noticed that he was also using a ChipIn badge , so I contributed a little bit to his campaign -- from Africa to Cambodia and back again. One of my donors pointed me to this amazing blog by an inspiring young African Blogger.

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JANUARY 3, 2012

I will be designing and facilitating capacity building programs in the Middle East, Africa, and India. Networked NGO : I’ll be combing the two above in all my training work during 2012. I want to learn as much about how networked ways of working are used outside the US context.

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MARCH 3, 2015

One pitch describes dry statistics about food shortages in Africa and the other describes the plight of one child suffering from starvation. As Parr points out, empathy is powerful because our innate ability and need to understand and connect with others – even we don’t know them personally.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

On September 3, I blogged and tweeted about a story about two interesting social media fundraising opportunities in Africa. One of them was charity: water , a non-profit bringing safe, clean drinking water to people in developing nations that had launched a September Birthday campaign. Hat tip Brett Meyer at NTEN ).

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MARCH 9, 2012

It’s a story with a simple solution, and it plays into existing narratives about the ungovernability of Africa, the power of US military and the need to bring hidden conflict to light. The Kony story resonates because it’s the story of an identifible individual doing bodily harm to children.

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JANUARY 16, 2010

The fact that we have a global team means that we have been able to offer round the clock support, with the Africa-based team taking over when the US-based team goes to sleep and vice versa.

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