AFP Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

But it also included a link to a website that told the story of Mama Lucy Kamptoni, a woman building a school in the African nation of Tanzania. Happy Tweetsgiving: Nonprofit taps Twitter for fundraising - OrlandoSentinel.com: "The Twitter message started simple enough two years ago: What are you thankful for? Happy Tweetsgiving!But

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 13, 2015

From this moment on, I truly felt an emotional connection to the foundation's work in Kenya and Tanzania and appreciated the reality of these everyday problems that are so often looked over in favor of more dramatic conflict. I don't think I have been more blown away by a technological advance than this one. What VR Can Do.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

For example, they partnered with groups like Focus the Nation and 1Sky so that they could share a backend database ensuring that they were then able to share calls to action and garner far more numbers together than as competitors. It instantly becomes less about numbers and more about impact. And that’s hard to ignore.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2014

Meet Charlotte, the teen daughter of one of my colleagues, Tom Subak , who is Chief Information Officer for a national charity and knows a thing or two about engaging young people and fundraising online. Charlotte started riding horses when she was 5 years old. A Crowdfunding Campaign To Save A Horse Farm.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

This year they hope to spread gratitude further and raise enough to help build an additional classroom, orphanage/boarding facility, cafeteria and library at Epic Change’s partner school in Tanzania, and to finding and funding future Epic Fellows like the school’s founder, Mama Lucy. Be sure to check out the Twitterkids.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 1, 2006

View the National Memorial for the Mountains on Google Earth. about this year's campaign for the United Nation's World Food Programme click here. Watch a movie about mountaintop removal on YouTube. Each flag represents a mountain that has been destroyed. The campaign raised $17, 000. For more info.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 13, 2011

The head of our group, Patrick Ball, is spending most of this year in the Democratic Republic of Congo, working with the United Nations on a range of human rights issues (of which the DRC has many). Our team is helping activists and organizations worldwide ensure that the truth matters.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

Last year, TweetsGiving , raised $11,000 to build a classroom in Tanzania using Twitter to spread messages of thanks and opportunities to donate. More importantly, the event was one of a series of social media fundraisers that offered evidence that Twitter and other social media tools were not just a passing fad. .

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