Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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

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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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My Triple Ripple of Kindness: Helping Women in San Jose and Kenya

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I used my $100 check to purchase beautiful ceramic beaded necklaces from Kazuri in Kenya. Kazuri is Swahili for “small and beautiful.&# The Kazuri factory is located in the rolling hills outside of Nairobi, Kenya. My random act of kindness was to support women in San Jose by supporting women in Kenya. Your turn.

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Twitter’s Claire Williams Shares Why Literacy Is Her Cause

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

in Kenya with Mary, 10, circa 2006]. On the last stop of that trip, I went to Kenya to climb a mountain. Our connection to Kenya remains strong; we are also the guardians for one of the children from that orphanage, @sammyikua , who now studies in Maine. A group of graduate students from Berkeley were coming to Kenya.

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Free Agents in UK: Militant Optimists and Positive Disruptors

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I arrived in London yesterday on my way back from Kenya to give a couple of talks about The Networked Nonprofit. I arrived in London yesterday on my way back from Kenya to give a couple of talks about The Networked Nonprofit. Militant optimists. View more documents from David Barrie.

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Ushahidi Wins MacArthur Award: Changing the World One Map at a Time

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In early 2008, villages and cities across Kenya were ravaged with violence following the disputed re-election of the sitting Kenyan president. An ad-hoc group of tech bloggers based in Kenya decided to do something about it.

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Social Media, Networking, and African Women’s Leadership Training in Rwanda

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She selected an orange flower from the “nadiflame” tree because to her women who are leaders stand out miles away – just like the orange flowers on this tree. She shared examples of women leaders in Kenya. When we came back to the circle, we had to introduce each other and the other person’s object.

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Networked Nonprofit at the Guardian in London

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I stopped in London on my way back to the US from Kenya for a couple of book events. I stopped in London on my way back to the US from Kenya for a couple of book events.

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