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Guest Post by Stephanie McAuliffe: SoCap09 - Day 2 Roundup

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Others examples include loans to schools in India and capital for small manufacturers in Ghana. The first SoCap conference in 2008 coincided with the launch of this paper, Investing for Social & Environmental Impact: A Design for Catalyzing an Emerging Industry A Monitor Institute Report [link] EnvImpact_ExecSum_000.pdf

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A First Look at Jumo

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The organizations are a combination of smaller, progressive organizations like Ushahidi and the Sunlight Foundation and large venerable institutions like NPR and the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Jumo has been raising $2 million in funding from individuals and foundations. Argentina, France, India, or Kenya?&#

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How Can We Make Charitable Giving A Year-Round Habit?

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Beth's Birthday Cause I was listening to a story on Marketplace on NPR this afternoon with Tess Vigeland and Chris Farrell who reviewed their 2008 financial goals and graded themselves on their accomplishments. Chris Farrell set a 2008 goal to make his charitable giving a monthly activity, not a mad rush in December.

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Constructive Disruption: Advancing Social Change Through the Cloud

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Kiva.org's development of the world's first person-to-person micro-lending website is facilitating micro-transactions that were previously prohibitively expensive, thereby helping alleviate poverty and raise awareness on a different, more personalized, level.

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Constructive Disruption: Advancing Social Change Through the Cloud

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Kiva.org's development of the world's first person-to-person micro-lending website is facilitating micro-transactions that were previously prohibitively expensive, thereby helping alleviate poverty and raise awareness on a different, more personalized, level.

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What is Jumo? | Nonprofit Trends with Steve MacLaughlin | a.

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But it’s also the latest online creation of Chris Hughes, a co-founder of Facebook and director of online organizing for Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign. Chris Hughes Jumo has been raising $2 million in funding from individuals and foundations. Argentina, France, India, or Kenya?&#

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Women's Earth Alliance: Co-Directors Melinda Kramer and Amira Diamond

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The next area, where Women's Earth Alliance works, is in India , where we learned from our colleagues on the ground that support around creating sustainable agriculture would be the best thing we could do to help. One of the women that stands out is actually someone who participated in our 2008 training, which took place in Kenya.