Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 17, 2008

Many of you contacted me to say that you enjoyed my interview with Kavita Ramdas , the President and CEO of the Global Fund for Women. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the Honorable President of Liberia, as well as women leaders from Colombia, South Africa, Malaysia, Liberia, Bosnia/Herzogovina and Egypt will be honored at the event.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 1, 2013

We're pleased and proud that Jim Lynch, Director of Green Technology here at TechSoup Global, was interviewed for the BBC piece. TechSoup co-organized a conference to address the issue of e-waste in Africa. See what Jim had to say about the tremendous potential for recycling and refurbishing in the developing world.

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DECEMBER 28, 2006

She is the co-founder and co-director of Women's Global Green Action Network , a nonprofit that cultivates global partnerships of grassroots women environmental leaders by providing access to communication tools, support services and networking capabilities. Below is a transcript of an interview with her from the Big Vision Podcast.

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JANUARY 21, 2009

Those interested in domestic health, global health, population issues, or international development would do well to join an online conversation series hosted by the Population Reference Bureau. Interviews Online service. Since the interview is time-delimited, the burden of moderation only happens during the session itself.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 19, 2009

After meeting her at the Global Engagement Summer last spring, I knew I wanted to grab her for an interview before she became too famous. FORGE serves 60,000 refugees in three different refugee camps in Southern Africa, and is an official operating partner of the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR ). What brought you here?

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

Below is an edited transcript from a September 5th phone interview with Marisa for the Big Vision Podcast. I think the real answers lie in the small, diverse, creative solutions we come up with ourselves in our communities, by ourselves, or with our friends, or with a global group. Essentially, I came to activism from compassion.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2008

She went from being somebody's servant to somebody who when she walks down the street of her community, people stop her and shake her hand and thank her for the stories that she is telling, or ask, 'When are you going to interview me? Last month I interviewed Cristi Hegranes, its Founder and President. CH: Right, exactly.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2015

I interviewed Jim Murphy , Senior Online Editor, about how Human Rights Watch ’s integrated social media strategy leverages the personal brands HRW 197 employees to get results. Daniel Bekele , Africa Director. Minky Wordan , Global Initiatives Director. The organizational strategy is to impact policy change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 29, 2017

I had an opportunity to interview Meico about being a Mindful Techie. The interview went so well that I was offered a full-time web developer position on the spot. Or maybe you buy Girl Scout Cookies or make a one time donation to the canvasser outside your office building raising money to save the whales or feed children in Africa.

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APRIL 24, 2007

Paul Rice, the founding president and CEO of the Oakland based nonprofit, TransFair USA , answers these questions and others in an interview for the Big Vision Podcast. At the heart of Fair Trade is the notion of direct trade, kind of like a farmer's market gone global. What is Starbucks relationship with Fair Trade?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2007

An interview with Allen Gunn of Social Source Commons by Britt Bravo over at Netsquared. DIA Blog - " E-xemplar: Ways to Make Legislative Campaigns Suck Less " Global NpTech Can anyone translate? Ambassadors in Africa - An Interview with Kim Lowery, Kabissa. Need some comic relief? Maybe just some prayers?

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MAY 3, 2006

she worked on a program called the “African Peace and Development Initiative” at the NGO, World Learning for International Development , doing project backstopping for peacebuilding initiatives in East Africa. DeeAnn was kind enough to do an e-interview with me: Describe what Up with People does and a little about the work you do with them.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2007

You can learn a lot about that more through this informative interview by The Buzz Bin with Steve Bridger on the Buzz Director. Global Development Matters is a new site with lots of video, quizzes on global development and extensive q/a on a variety of global development project. Check out the introduction video for more.

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NTEN

APRIL 18, 2014

NTEN’s Education Manager, Julia Smith volunteered at Upwardly Global in Chicago, where she did mock interviews. Upwardly Global helps immigrants to rebuild their professional careers in the U.S. nten staff one brick schoolhouse supplies upwardly global volunteer'

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DECEMBER 14, 2006

I am an Angelina Jolie fan, so after watching The Diary of Angelina Jolie and Dr. Jeffrey Sachs in Africa on MTV, I wanted to read his book. My friend, Ilyse Hogue , introduced me to Anna this summer, and I had the privilege of interviewing her for my podcast. End of Poverty by Jeffrey Sachs. I'll admit it.

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AUGUST 20, 2008

KickStart is a nonprofit that develops and markets new technologies in Africa that help local entrepreneurs to establish small businesses. Martin Fisher: The problem we're trying to solve is global poverty. Unless we solve this problem of global poverty, the other problems won't be able to be solved.

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JULY 3, 2006

I recently posted my interview with Steve Williams, the Executive Director and co-founder of POWER: People Organized to Win Employment Rights on the Big Vision Podcast. Steve also happens to be the fiancé of Mei-ying Ho, who I interviewed last month.

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EveryAction

MARCH 16, 2017

Along with her work as an aquatic biologist, her book, Silent Spring , is largely credited for advancing the global environmental movement worldwide , inspiring the rise of ecofeminism and many feminist scientists. History remembers Queen Anna Nzinga as one of the great female rulers of Africa. Rosalind Franklin. Wangari Maathai.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 24, 2014

The nonprofit technology news this month reports on the reinvention of the wheel in India and Africa, how nonprofits are leading the wearable computing field, the privacy threat you may not have heard about yet, and plenty more. Reinventing the Wheel in India and Africa. was designed for Africa and costs more. Digital Inclusion.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 15, 2010

Keeping with this year's topic, I wanted to share with you an inspiring video about Women's Earth Alliance's Global Women's Water Initiative (GWWI) in Africa. If you enjoy the video, you might also like my interview with Women's Earth Alliance co-Directors, Melinda Kramer and Amira Diamond.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2014

Here’s what I learned: Global Social Media and Mobile Usage Studies and Internet Penetration. I’ve been curating infographics summarizing social media and social network studie s of American and global audiences, but one of the best resources global social media and mobile data is We Are Social.

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MAY 4, 2010

Melinda Kramer: Women's Earth Alliance is a global organization and we work around the world uniting women who are on the front lines of environmental causes. What we heard was that our colleagues in Africa really needed support around water. MK: One of the highlights for me was the Global Peers program.

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OCTOBER 6, 2010

Longtime Have Fun, Do Good Readers and Big Vision Podcast listeners may remember my interview with Dining for Women's Founder, Marsha Wallace, in September 2007. You can read the edited transcript below, or listen to the interview on the Big Vision Podcast homepage , or on iTunes. This past March, two different groups went to Africa.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2009

I wrote a follow up post titled " Are Fundraising Groundswells A Massive Opportunity or Distraction for Nonprofit Organizations " based on an interview with Ben Matthews , a member of the London founding group. He told me that I really needed to interview Amanda Rose , the person doing the lion's share of the organizing for Twestival.

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Care2

APRIL 16, 2008

The needs are far greater in Africa and other parts of the world, and we need to find ways to inspire global giving to help alleviate poverty and save the environment all over the world, not just in our local communities. Seriously tho, great interview! My last thought on this is that we Americans are too focused on the US.

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Care2

MARCH 4, 2008

The needs are far greater in Africa and other parts of the world, and we need to find ways to inspire global giving to help alleviate poverty and save the environment all over the world, not just in our local communities. Seriously tho, great interview! My last thought on this is that we Americans are too focused on the US.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 8, 2007

Global Diary is a monthly column written by journalist, Mariane Pearl, the widow of Daniel Pearl, who was kidnapped and murdered in 2002 by terrorists in Pakistan. Liberia: Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the president of Liberia, and Africa's first elected female head of state.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

We have Sub-Saharan Africa, Europe. So this is really important in areas that, so, for example, in Latin America, in certain parts of Asia, in Sub-Saharan Africa, that the internet is not as fast. Well, probably not obvious because we have a global audience, maybe someone from Japan doesn’t know where Stanford is.”

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APRIL 29, 2009

On March 5, 2009 I interviewed yoga teacher and co-Founder of Off the Mat, Into the World, Seane Corn , for the Big Vision Podcast shortly after she returned from a trip to Cambodia with participants from Off the Mat, Into the World's Seva Challenge. You can also listen to the interview on the Big Vision Podcast. *

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 28, 2016

Nonprofits can use Blab for interviews, discussions, and live workshops and then share replays after the live event is over. The 2016 Global NGO Online Technology Report. The research is unprecedented and provides valuable insight into the global NGO sector and its use of online technology. Social Media Tools. Blab :: blab.im.

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JUNE 30, 2007

I asked four of the women who I had previously interviewed for the Big Vision Podcast to share what brought them to their work, and their advice for the graduate and undergraduate women who attended the conference. Like there'll be times where I'm really interested in food issues, and I'm interviewing and talking to people about that.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

It’s the week of the United Nations General Assembly and the Clinton Global Initiative. Interviewed several candidates for executive positions at Benetech. Kampala, Uganda The Sixth Africa Forum was the main reason for my Africa trip. Met with a big NYC disability services provider about a possible Bookshare partnership.

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APRIL 25, 2007

Consequently, it is a special treat for me to share with you the transcript of my interview with him for the Big Vision Podcast. Van Jones: One of the biggest things happening in the country right now is this sudden passion and concern about global warming and the climate crisis; that and the war are really two of the biggest issues.

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