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OCTOBER 9, 2012

Making it through both primary and secondary education is critical to girls being able to help break the cycle of poverty. I raised money through my blog and later on Twitter to help send her to college from 2006-2010 through the Sharing Foundation’s program. …more likely to understand her rights and be a force for change.

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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. They did not want to bring religious materials to Africa. They had left them behind.

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APRIL 24, 2012

Rachael Barrett of the Women’s Refugee Commission offered the following from the perspective of an organization that recently sought out capacity building funding: “My quick answer is yes … having organizational assumptions challenged by an unbiased outsider will hopefully help us make a more refined decision about next steps.”

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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. The money raised from this fundraiser will help build a boarding facility on campus so that every child who attends her school has a place to call home. I love the design.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

During the panel, Matt shared his story about how his interest in poetry and introduction to NFTE helped turn his life around, and helped him develop an online platform for artists “ CreaTistZone ”. Peter has extensive international experience in Latin America and Africa and discussed the problems and solutions he sees from the ground.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

And the cloud helps that. We heard that from Africa, India and Latin America. We need to be supporting the good work that people like Inveneo are doing to help make those externalities &mdash No reliable power! And surveys, like this one, like NTEN’s State of the Cloud , help us. So what are the next steps?

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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. In 2015, Noel helped them to publish their mobile app, Women Fight Back , on the Google Play store. The Tech Girls of Dharavi.

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JULY 26, 2017

We know that young people like Generation Z are future donors, so programs that help introduce philanthropy at a young age will a big pay off down the road. These fundamental values help children develop their philanthropic characters in life. Read on for more. Lead by Actions. There were a lot of children names. 1000 Action Tasks.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Isadora, who is only 13 years, created a Facebook group to help other teens in her country who want to make a difference in their communities and to report problems in their schools. He shared the story of the first-ever Girl Up Leadership Summit which brought together young girls who are helping change the face of global philanthropy.

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APRIL 18, 2007

Addressing Africa???s HELP International Telemedicine Humanitarian Emergency Mobile Medical Clinic Network [link]. 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]. Aspiration Social Source Commons [link].

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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. Help Special Needs Children Improve Social Skills. Can I Sit With You? Can I Sit With You? Photo by Dmason.

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JANUARY 16, 2010

He's passionate about helping children and obsessed with leveraging the power of "good ideas for good causes.". I'm going back to Haiti in the next few days and need help to give hands-on help to our kids and the townspeople. You can help. I haven't been able to sleep.

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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. This foundation helps children at risk around the world.

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JANUARY 3, 2012

Instead he guides you on how to focus on what matters and ignore the rest. He offers both daily techniques that help you reach longer-term goals. I will be designing and facilitating capacity building programs in the Middle East, Africa, and India. He suggests setting year-long goals. What did you accomplish?

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DECEMBER 19, 2007

So, in return, I'm plugging her cause - Life in Africa and this cause. On her portfolio site she shares a life vow called Threads of Empathy As part of a life-vow I have made which is at the basis of much of my art, I donate 10% of my income from all art sales to help provide opportunity and education in developing countries.

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OCTOBER 31, 2006

By speaking openly about the threat that HIV and AIDS poses to young people, we can help give them the knowledge they need to keep them safe from infection.??? Sub-Saharan Africa has been especially hard-hit by the epidemic. ??? Sub-Saharan Africa has been especially hard-hit by the epidemic. ???It It is estimated that of the 2.3

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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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MARCH 24, 2015

Leveraging the networks and personal brands of your staff as champions can help your organization’s communications strategy have more impact. With a few guidelines and a little training, employees can use social channels effectively in service of your organization’s mission AND their own learning. Daniel Bekele , Africa Director.

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AUGUST 4, 2007

It's a small amount,however I hope I have helped the community as well. I hope I can do to help in whatever way I could. So please let me know if there're anything I could help in term of technical issue or web hosting, development problem. I'm more than happy to help. You can still contribute! Donate now!

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MAY 11, 2009

In December 2006, I launched my first experiment in using social media for fundraising - raising $800 on my blog to help send Leng Sopharath, a young Cambodian woman, to her freshman year at college. I have used social media to help raise the money for her tuition through the Sharing Foundation in 2007 and 2008.

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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. it's a good cause I know respect and applaud Laura for doing this - and figured would help the match go a little bit further. I realized just $2 from each of my Twitter readers would be $25,000.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2008

Africa the next Chapter??? when TED Fellow Andriankoto and his fellow bloggers Mialy , Lova , and Joan combined their talents and never ending activism to start the FOKO project , to help support Madagascar???s The idea is to help them create hand-crafted items that can be sold on the Web. s development.

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MARCH 3, 2015

Empathy creates a connection that makes us pay more attention to something. We can’t help but to feel for Miles Scott and his family. One pitch describes dry statistics about food shortages in Africa and the other describes the plight of one child suffering from starvation. Parr shares two examples of a fundraising pitch.

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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. and his 12,000 Twitter followers have helped him raise over three times as much money so far (but granted, people aren???t Hat tip Brett Meyer at NTEN ). t do anything about it. s 2 years younger!)

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AUGUST 29, 2017

I was seeking a way to combine my interest in technology and helping people. Since that time, I’ve been involved in the sector helping organizations with a wide range of communications and technology challenges. I also find it helpful to set healthy boundaries around my tech use.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2015

” The following games are expanding the reach of various nonprofits and helping them connect with audiences in meaningful ways. ” Senate Immersion Module.

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OCTOBER 4, 2006

So, of course I go to the computer because I can always count on my colleagues from Europe, Africa, Asia, or Southeast Asia to be up and around and distract me from my insomnia. So, I bolt awake up very early this morning worrying about my to-do list or rather my not done yet list.

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DECEMBER 8, 2009

There are a couple of tools that can help you out. . Web crawls are particularly useful when used with other network analysis methodologies because they help identify organizations in a field for further investigation. Web Crawl Mapping The “quick and dirty” one is web crawls.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2012

I couldn’t help but think about how important content curation skills, information literacy, and encouraging a movement around this as Clay Johnson suggests in his book, the Information Diet. Soren asked a terrific question about how technology and being connected helps or gets in the way of giving.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2009

This intelligence of the crowds, yet manual, filtering helps you improve the signal to noise on any your topics of Internet. . For example, I was looking for a list of Twitter users from Africa - and after some conversation with Kabissa on Twitter, I found their lists.

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JUNE 23, 2007

" But to really be a platform for individuals, where the participants decide how to do things, where the successful organizations are only those that help residents succeed, where feedback loops are tight, fast, and respected - these are new ways for philanthropic institutions to act. And, I got an instant response.

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JUNE 29, 2009

A sharing and learning hub We invite you to cruise around the site — and we hope you'll help us spread the word. Productivity Tools in dozens of categories that can help organizations get a handle on the social Web. Chad Capellman of Boston, who lent his development help and keen CSS eye to this project.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2008

The money helps women and children affected by HIV/AIDS in Africa. Your donation will help the organization reach more children in poor, rural communities in the United States through early childhood education, literacy, physical activity and nutrition programs.

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JANUARY 5, 2012

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. If one of the goals of the peer session is “networking,” the icebreakers can help facilitate that.

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OCTOBER 20, 2009

One of the benefits of taking this approach is that it shifts the instructional design from sage on the stage to learning in the community. It also helped me discover an authentic example of social media for social good - WildlifeDirect. She created a wonderful closing ritual that helped the community form.

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JANUARY 21, 2010

   In an email interview, Laura Zaks, Public Affairs Coordinator, shared with me this sad story of devastation and the urgent need for funds to help PROFAMIL resume services through a temporary static clinic and Mobile Health Units to deliver services in tent cities where displaced persons have gathered.

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OCTOBER 12, 2006

After studying irrigation and soil and water conservation, which pays attention to the interface between social systems and irrigation technology in developing countries, she worked for ten years in Africa. " She has worked in Africa as a trainer and later as an organisational advisor. t have a clue." What benefits?

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