Candid

MARCH 6, 2023

That said, we can capitalize on the moments that can help movements grow. To become one of the success stories, it helps to work from the bottom up, top-down, and inside out. Our “boots on the ground” colleagues are often working alongside community leaders to help residents advocate for change. And, their impacts last.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 1, 2008

According to a recent AP report , 300,000 people in Kenya were forced to leave their homes, and over 800 people were killed during this past month's post-election violence. Feministing suggests making donations to the Kenya Red Cross Society. What are some other ideas for how people can help?

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 2, 2013

This month's Big Vision Podcast guest is Lisa Truong, the Co-Founder and Executive Director of Help a Mother Out. Help a Mother Out is a grassroots organization that raises diapers and awareness, and advocates for long term change in the social safety net. Music: "Mango Delight," by Kenya Masala.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Our vision is to use this power to end violence, discrimination, and disadvantage for young people and children. million young people and currently supports more than 250 programs in over 50 countries and territories. Among its successes: 72,878 children and young people became less socially isolated.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Since I’m enroute to Kenya, I invited Jeff Achen to share his thoughts. How to use social media to inspire 40,000 people to give on one day. We’re turning that word into a hashtag we hope people will use to share their stories of what motivated them to give and which organizations they support. Will you help us?

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 12, 2015

Instacart, a company that helps users purchase groceries and delivers them, followed suit and declared some of its "shoppers" to be employees rather than contractors. And when you don't you don't know how to do that … Our mission is to equip low-income people to succeed in the digital economy."

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Candid

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

The Gates Foundation pledged $315 million over three years to CGIAR , a global research partnership focused on the needs of smallholder farmers, in support of efforts to help them adapt to a surge of climate threats that, in turn, are exacerbating global hunger and poverty. Read more. . South Arts announces $6 million BIPOC arts initiative.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 7, 2013

Bookshare International Library We’re always thinking about new ways in which Benetech could go deeper and help many more people. But this is just the tip of the iceberg, as literacy remains an elusive dream for the majority of the world’s people with print disabilities.

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Global Giving

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

In celebration of the occasion of getting to meet this huge hero of mine, I’ve outlined five ways that companies, institutions, and nonprofits can harness technological innovations to advance financial inclusion and empower the world’s most vulnerable people: 1. It’s making life better and business easier for people everywhere.

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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. in Kenya with Mary, 10, circa 2006]. But this is not what this guest post is about.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 28, 2013

The Award, which recognizes exceptional grantees and helps ensure their long-term sustainability, provides each organization with up to $1.5 In early 2008, villages and cities across Kenya were ravaged with violence following the disputed re-election of the sitting Kenyan president. million, depending on the size of its budget.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2012

We want to share while we are doing and have people respond immediately. It could be checking in with people on a location-based social network. In 2009, for example, two trapped girls in Australia chose to post to facebook for help rather than dialing emergency numbers directly. People believe in the internet.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 14, 2014

Get hands-on help at a social media surgery, or learn about databases at a meetup or discover the top tech trends of 2014 at one of our panel discussions. Busia, Kenya: NetSquared Kenya Monthly Meeting. Victoria, Canada: Where do all the People Live: Choosing the Right Tools to Track Your Data. January Events. Innovation?

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 14, 2011

"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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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 11, 2012

It was the power of people sharing the stories with one another that actually brought it to some sort of critical mass where mainstream media then took attention. It didn't actually help it all that much. It was much more important for people to be sharing the stories with each other for the traffic to blow up really, really fast."

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Classy

MAY 31, 2021

People typically won’t give a recurring gift unless they’re asked. For example, Made In The Streets is a nonprofit working to “love and serve children from the streets of Nairobi, Kenya – meeting their physical, emotional, and spiritual needs; loving them fully; equipping them to earn a living and sending them out to a new life.”

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 13, 2015

Mission: To help eradicate extreme poverty through community development projects in urban sanitation, water filtration, health, alternative energy, and economic empowerment. billion people worldwide who do not have clean drinking water. Grassroots Pakistan ● grassrootspakistan.ngo. Kijani ● kijani.ngo. United Kingdom.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 29, 2015

Although we know we have no lever guaranteed to eliminate poverty — it has been with us for thousands of years — for the first time, we have a tool kit and neural network via mobile and the Internet, which can be pointed at making a difference in people's lives. Keep reading to learn how you can help too!

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 15, 2010

New ideas for Benetech projects come to us from interesting people all the time. The challenges that people bring are rarely technology problems: they are market problems. Rebecca was looking for help with a familiar problem. There is a great deal of opportunity to help get more of these started.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 1, 2011

Raising Change helps organizations raise capital to advance social change agendas, and helps individuals create Generosity Plans. If you have suggestions for people I should interview, please email me at britt AT brittbravo DOT com. You can connect with Kenya through CD Baby, Source Consulting Group , and Facebook.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

Kisumu, Kenya: Social Media Week. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Story Time: Empowering People with Technology. Busia, Kenya: Building for the Future with Appmaker-Mozilla Western Kenya Network. Busia, Kenya: Social Media Week Event. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Social Media Surgery: Hands-On Help with Social Media.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

We have webinar recordings , tools, and resources to help you make stories that stand out. Kisumu, Kenya: Social Media Week. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Story Time: Creating Technologies with Visually Impaired People. Busia, Kenya: Building for the Future with Appmaker-Mozilla Western Kenya Network. September 23.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 16, 2012

Its fair trade boutique offers a line of women-made, fair-trade products including stylish apparel, accessories and gifts with one purpose - to help women in need help themselves. Her first book, Global Girlfriends: How One Mom Made It Her Business to Help Women in Poverty Worldwide , came out last year.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 4, 2011

"There's really no more rewarding work in the world than helping women and girls attain the highest possible quality of life." ~ Carinne Brody This month's Big Vision Podcast interview is special because it's part of the Girl Effect Blogging Campaign organized by Tara Sophia Mohr. Share Tweet.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 27, 2014

Every month NetSquared holds free or low cost educational events for people and organizations who want to use technology for social good. With 50 groups in 20 countries there’s probably a Net2Local group near you (but if there isn’t we’d love to help you start a new meetup.) :-). Friday, February 14.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

The Marrakesh Treaty was signed last year, and now the efforts are ramping up to ratify and implement the Treaty, with the goal of helping overcome the book famine faced by people with print disabilities. Especially since people with disabilities tend to be poor to a greater degree than non-disabled people.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Each of these groups provided insights into the challenge, determined a focus area where technology can help, and developed a solution. An estimated 811 million people are hungry globally. What are ways of helping farmers get more money from their work? Why Small-Scale Farmers? However, there’s a lot more work to be done.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

I stopped in London on my way back to the US from Kenya for a couple of book events. Engage people in your organization who don’t understand social media. Find a free agent who can help our cause. I stopped in London on my way back to the US from Kenya for a couple of book events.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

Note from Beth: On my way to Kenya for the Ushahidi Board meeting , so enjoy this post by Manny Hernandez. In 2010, we wanted to let people know about the Big Blue Test through a video that we’d hope would go viral. To help the video go viral, we got Roche to also agree to make a $0.75 They become viral. 1 and Nov.

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Sometimes it can be a place where people have the heart to serve, but do not have the business savviness to run a sustainable nonprofit. Thankfully, my journey with nonprofit consulting did not end in Uganda, as I embarked on another project to Kenya where I devised marketing strategies for mango and passion fruit.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 6, 2013

NetSquared holds free or low cost educational events for people and organizations who want to learn more about using technology for social good. We’d love to help you start a new meetup. Kakamega Town, Kenya: Netsquared Kenya Regional Meeting /Kakamega County. NetSquared Manila in the Philippines. December Events.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 2, 2011

SANGONeT's mission is to help the approximately 100,000 NGOs operating in South Africa with technological and computing support. In addition to helping provide very deserving NGOs with technological resources the run also seeks to encourage awareness and connections among and between NGOs and the very people these organizations serve.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

a new company-wide initiative to create opportunities for 300 million young people around the world over the next three years. The initiative brings together an array of existing, new and enhanced global programs and partnerships that connect young people with better education, employment and entrepreneurship opportunities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2014

We’ll share some of these case studies below, but for more, check out these projects and learn more about the people behind them at the Games for Change Festival ( [link] ), NYC’s largest gaming event that convenes the social change community and game makers, next month (April 22-24 & 26). In Philanthropy. Around Gender.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 14, 2014

And if you don’t have a local group we’ll help you start your own. Busia, Kenya: mozilla western kenya follow ups -openness,opportuni­ty on the open web. San Francisco, CA: Let’s Learn How to Stop Integrating Your CRM and Start Integrating Your People! Upcoming Events. Tuesday, April 15.

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Whole Whale

APRIL 11, 2023

In 2022, it was reported by Time Magazine and other sources ( Open AI Used Kenyan Workers, Jan 2023 ) that OpenAI used outsourcing firm Sama, a b-corp firm that hires workers in places like Kenya. The net pay for removing violent and disturbing content from the training set was reported to be $2 per hour.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Every month NetSquared volunteers hold free or low cost educational events for people and organizations who want to use technology for social good. 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 ). :-). Tuesday, February 10, 2015.

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