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#1MilliForJadudi: A Crowdfunding Campaign in Kenya to help Cancer Patient

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In 2010, I had an opportunity to do a Networked Nonprofit workshop in Kenya. Zawadi shared her most recent crowdfunding campaign, probably one of the most successful in Kenya, raising over $71,000 in a couple of days, to help a 24 year old brain cancer patient Emmanuel Otieno (pictured above and known as Jadudi) to get surgery in India.

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Why Nonprofits Need to Be Early Explorers of the Metaverse

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Breigha Adeyemo’s recent article, I’m a Black woman and the metaverse scares me – here’s how to make the next iteration of the internet inclusive , explains: Ensuring that the metaverse is inclusive and works for everyone will require that people from marginalized communities take the lead in shaping it. The possibilities are wide open.

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10 Questions …. Kate Behncken, global head, Microsoft Philanthropies

The NonProfit Times

I love getting out and about and meeting nonprofit partners and leaders around the world — the changemakers who are helping people and communities in so many different ways — and getting more local context. Who are three people with no connection to Microsoft who you admire and why? So that’s the first filter.

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Weekly update from PND

Candid

South Arts announces $6 million BIPOC arts initiative. South Arts has announced the launch of Southern Cultural Treasures , a four-year, $6 million initiative in support of Black, Indigenous, and people of color-led and -serving arts and cultural organizations across the Southeast. Read more. . November 4, 2021.

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12 Early Adopters of the.NGO and.ONG Domains

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Mission: To foster peace among young adults through the arts in post-war Bosnia-Herzegovina. billion people worldwide who do not have clean drinking water. Mission: To provide sustainable transformation in the lives of poor children and provide emergency relief that assists people afflicted by conflict or disaster.

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Empowering Low-Income Families to Create Prosperity: Interview with Ben Mangan

Have Fun - Do Good

"It's important to never lose track of leveraging the strengths of the people that we serve. It's one of the most important ways that you position the people that you're serving to be successful over time. ~ If you have suggestions for people I should interview, please email me at britt AT brittbravo DOT com.

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30 Days of NetSquared Events

Tech Soup

Busia, Kenya: NetSquared Kenya Monthly Meeting. Victoria, Canada: Where do all the People Live: Choosing the Right Tools to Track Your Data. Kisumu, Kenya: Mozilla Make a Party Western Kenya joins together with Netsquared Kenya. Guayaquil, Ecuador: The Guayaquil NetSquared Meetup Group Monthly Meetup.