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How Faith-Based Hope Endeavors Effectively Fights the AIDS Epidemic and Changes Lives in the U.S. and Africa

Tech Soup

Two 14-year-old girls, one in the US and one in Malawi, had their lives changed when they joined forces to fight the AIDs epidemic in Africa. On Darcy McLane’s first service trip to Malawi, she experienced something that would change her life forever: She met Isaac. Work Inspired By A Child’s Death.

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Let’s All Pull Together: Reflections from Harambee 2023

Candid

Using the power of our voices Speakers stressed the importance of using our voice to create change. “As As a people, we have to tell our own story.” – Evans Okinyi, CEO, East Africa Philanthropy Network Coming from a family of storytellers and strong matriarchs, I was interested in “Black (Women’s) Power: Our Voices.”

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Making social impact: How nonprofit work taught me to look beyond the bottom line

ASU Lodestar Center

That’s changing (thanks to training and education from places like the ASU Lodestar Center ), but it’s a place where I knew I could contribute. My journey began with a nonprofit called TechnoServe where I began utilizing my consulting skills as a volunteer consultant in East Africa. He is the co-founder and CEO of Ascend Finance.

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Five Recent Facebook Upgrades That Nonprofits Need to Know About

Nonprofit Tech for Good

As those of us in the United States, Canada and Latin America are wrapping up our work days, Asia and Australia are just beginning theirs – and then hours later those in the Middle East, Africa, and then Europe come online to a new day as well. This blog post will be posted as a $30 Promoted Post on Monday morning, June 11.

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10 Twitter Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Too often nonprofits follow a small number of accounts on Twitter in order to control the chaos in their “Home” feed, but that’s the purpose of lists. CircuitEditor regularly hosts Twitter Chats on the subjects of social change and philanthropy in Africa. Like mentions and replies.

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Three Ways Social Media Has Negatively Affected the Nonprofit Sector (and What We Can Do About It)

Nonprofit Tech for Good

From famine in Africa to war in the Middle East to global economic collapse, people are increasingly becoming overwhelmed by all the tweets, status updates, photos, and videos of gloom, doom, and despair. All day, everyday the online masses are being bombarded with terrible news. Even the most challenging issues have stories of success.

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Great reads from around the web on January 25th

Amy Sample Ward

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). As ImpactMax writes so beautifully, tying individual stories to overall contextual problems and societal issues can really change policies.

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