Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

Avi is just back from Tanzania where he and other Epic Change team members were working with the students in the classroom built with last year’s TweetsGiving proceeds. Epic Change is a US nonprofit dedicated to helping social entrepreneurs harness the power of their stories to create change in their communities.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

Avi is just back from Tanzania where he and other Epic Change team members were working with the students in the classroom built with last year’s TweetsGiving proceeds. Epic Change is a US nonprofit dedicated to helping social entrepreneurs harness the power of their stories to create change in their communities.

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Forum One

JUNE 18, 2009

A couple of weeks ago a group of Seattle global health data experts met at the Seattle Biomedical Research Institute to continue a conversation we started earlier this year on global health data. The impact of donor expectations on data collection. The issues are not limited to the developing world.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 12, 2013

continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit scholar, student, or professional to. Working with an intelligent and experienced staff of a Phoenix-based nonprofit involved focused on global issues, I was encouraged to ask questions of development organizations and to think through a lens of international aid.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 9, 2012

Globally, 1 in 3 girls around the world is denied an education by the daily realities of poverty, violence and discrimination. Making it through both primary and secondary education is critical to girls being able to help break the cycle of poverty. …more likely to reinvest her income back into her family, community and country.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 15, 2009

Wellesley College student, Catlin Powers , is the co-founder of One Earth Designs. The organization helps Himalayan communities, "achieve their unique visions of sustainable living through science/engineering education and infrastructure development." ges2009 youth social entrepreneur Global Engagement Summit

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Our second Impact Lab recently announced the Financial Aid Chatbot to support students as they navigate the FAFSA application. We’re looking for new ways technology can help, and we’re looking to bring together experts who are already leading the path forward. Meet Our Salesforce.org Impact Lab Climate Action Experts.

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Global Giving

MARCH 7, 2019

dollars and British pounds, and donors in India and East Africa can contribute in their local currencies via our partnerships with ImpactGuru and M-Changa. Our team wanted to know: What other currencies could help us connect more GlobalGivers with more community-led organizations? GlobalGiving accepts donations in U.S. Why It Matters.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

One of things immediately struck me – the crowd was filled with younger people – teens, college students, and millennials who want to use the technology and do social change on their own terms. I loved hearing Isadora Faber, a pre-teen girl who lives in Florianópolis and creator of page Daily Class on Facebook.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

With 50 groups in 20 countries, there's probably a NetSquared group near you (but if there isn't, we'd love to help you start a new meetup ). :-). Need help finding the right WordPress plugin for your website? We're a global movement with chapters in 20 countries. The link need to be like so: Africa.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 18, 2011

—– Whether it’s political or personal, global or local, funded or a grassroots effort, organizations and communities are campaigning for change in many ways, all of the time. But how does it help you move closer to your goal? The story here is of how 1 child dies of Malaria in Africa every 45 seconds.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

As I reflect on what Literacy Day means, I can’t help thinking about the origins of my interest in Room to Read as an organization, and one particularly sticky literacy-for-development related issue that came up during that season of my life. A group of graduate students from Berkeley were coming to Kenya. I took them up on it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. Help Special Needs Children Improve Social Skills. The GRO Foundation: Global Relief Outreach.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Women are underrepresented in the field of technology, and it’s a global problem. To help, Symantec has sponsored programs aimed at getting more women into and interested in science, computers, and engineering. Their support will help Room to Read extend its operations into new parts of India and reach over 20,000 children.

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Cloud 4 Good

MAY 3, 2022

Education For Employment’s (EFE) mission is simple: to create economic opportunities for unemployed youth in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), allowing them to create a brighter future for themselves, their families, and their communities. It’s been a real game-changer for us.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 19, 2009

After meeting her at the Global Engagement Summer last spring, I knew I wanted to grab her for an interview before she became too famous. FORGE serves 60,000 refugees in three different refugee camps in Southern Africa, and is an official operating partner of the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR ). You started very young.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 7, 2008

As the Obama administration ushers in a new era of foreign policy, this nation has an opportunity - an obligation - to aid our global neighbors in Darfur. With your help, we can draw desperately-needed political attention to the ongoing genocide in Darfur. Just Africa. STAND: A Student Anti-Genocide Coalition.

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Everyaction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Global delegates. The BoardSource Leadership Forum (BLF) is a global conference focused on nonprofit leadership at the highest level – the board of directors. The Net Impact Conference is the premier gathering of students and professionals who are committed to making a lasting social and environmental impact now and for a lifetime.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 9, 2007

Don't get me wrong, there are extremely sad and depressing stories in here, but mostly it is a book that shares Cheadle and Prendergast's, "Two Paths Out of Apathy," inspiring citizen activist success stories, and tools and information to help you take action. And the Five Helpful Hints for Advocacy Initiatives 1. has to say.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

They moved to a transitional campus, and they began to add students and kind of expand their services to those students. And for those that aren’t aware in relation to the construction industry, you know, construction globally and in the United States has continued to grow and hasn’t stopped throughout the pandemic.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 20, 2008

Now, a day and two thousand miles from the closing ceremony, I realize I was lucky enough to participate in a very special kind of conference, one which deals specifically with the global politics of science centers. Most museum conferences are focused on professional learning and networking. How are we addressing this woman?

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sgEngage

MAY 6, 2021

Here’s a timeline with links to articles about significant events over the last century that helped form our current context: . In the same year, the Global Reporting Initiative was founded in Boston. 2000 – The United National Global Compact is launched. 2000 – The United National Global Compact is launched.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 24, 2007

It basically links consumers, you and me, to third-world families, and through more direct trade helps those families get a fair price for their coffee, their tea, their bananas, whatever it is they produce. At the heart of Fair Trade is the notion of direct trade, kind of like a farmer's market gone global. Everyone goes to the store.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Each one of these terrific people has committed to spending anywhere from a month to a year helping Benetech with his or her skills and passion. When he was 22, Craig launched a company to help partially sighted children. He followed up by launching another company helping startups find funding, write business plans, etc.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2016

And, Bookshare’s promise to K-12 students with these kinds of disabilities is that if they need specific titles for school, we’ll get them. one a global norm and allows for easy import and export of accessible materials. And so we campaigned for the Marrakesh Treaty. It makes a copyright exception like the U.S.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2014

While the primary goal is for students to learn about strategic use of networks and social media for international organizations, I will also be covering some practical career skills such as effective networking and self-directed professional learning (also called “Social Learning”).

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Achieve

JANUARY 20, 2016

She realized that the life she had was much more privileged than most, even though she would be considered by many in the United States as a broke student just getting started in her career. Embedded in the model of World Clothes Line is Mallory’s global view. To help, Mallory and her team created the 86,402 Campaign.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JULY 29, 2022

In 1990, four months after being released from prison, Mandela visited Madison Park High School in Boston to address the community , and he expressed his deep concern about school dropouts both in South Africa and the U.S. The organisation personifies Mandela’s words, but also acts as inspiration for his legacy to live on in Africa.

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Candid

APRIL 21, 2021

And philanthropic foundations can help fix it. Some 20 years ago, when working as vice president for peace and social justice at the Ford Foundation , I was approached by the Vera Institute of Justice about a global initiative focused on prosecuting the police. Policing in America is fundamentally flawed.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 2, 2013

That said, in 2012 I had the opportunity to travel to Africa and Asia and from those travel experiences three themes emerged that inspired the selection of this year’s nonprofits: 1) Women’s and girls empowerment; 2) Conservation of wildlife and wild lands; and 3) Access to medical care. 10×10 :: @ 10x10Act. amfAR :: @ amfAR.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 24, 2012

I organized and moderated a panel called “ Women Who Tech Globally.” What challenges do women who tech in Africa and Middle East face? Giselle has been using Razoo to help raise funds for her to make the trip and she still has a way to go before reaching her goal. Are these similar or different than in the US?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

It’s the week of the United Nations General Assembly and the Clinton Global Initiative. Consulted with some peer social entrepreneurs about whether we could help them with specific technology for their nonprofits. Student privacy. Met with a big NYC disability services provider about a possible Bookshare partnership.

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