NetWits

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Whether your nonprofit is addressing more recent issues like the digital divide or societal ills as old as hunger, your mission can feel Herculean, even impossible. The United Nations Foundation made the massive health issue of malaria in Africa accessible with its easy-to-use Nothing But Nets game. The cost of entry is low.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 22, 2013

It wasn’t too many years ago when our pharmaceutical industry more or less argued that people with AIDS in Africa should die rather than to license their medicines for low cost manufacture. I want to advocate for “giving the sleeves off your vest” strategy!

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 14, 2013

There is one thing all radically successful people have in common: their ferocious drive and hunger for success makes them never give up.". revolutionary and politician who served as President of South Africa. What is your "ferocious drive and hunger," and what is the impact that you want to channel that toward? Instructor.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2009

They are using FLIP Cameras and Camtasia editing software to product a series of videos of their deep field work in Africa. The video bloggers Marcus Prior their spokesperson from East Africa. The videos include a visit nutrition centres where school kids show up for their daily meals and get a taste of original Masai goat.

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JULY 19, 2023

The four grant categories you can apply for are: education in America, democracy, international peace and security, and higher education and research in Africa. The Carnegie Corporation offers four different grant programs, each with a special focus. The Coca-Cola Foundation requires you to complete an eligibility quiz before you can apply.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2015

One pitch describes dry statistics about food shortages in Africa and the other describes the plight of one child suffering from starvation. As Parr points out, empathy is powerful because our innate ability and need to understand and connect with others – even we don’t know them personally.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 29, 2006

On the WFP site you can: * Read about "Blood, Diamonds and Hunger" and the WFP's work in Sierra Leone. Read an interview with Paul Arè s , the former WFP regional manager for West Africa, about his experience in Sierra Leone in the 1990s. diamond hunger conflict activism

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 28, 2008

Why not give a small donation to help a school in Africa, like Epic Change's projects or find a project in a corner of the world that is meaningful to you. September is Hunger Awareness Month so why not give a donation of canned goods and cash to your local food bank? September: Food and water are basic human needs.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 20, 2005

As education-committee chairwoman Nancy Benkof explained: "In struggling regions such as Africa, rural India and the Middle East, the sale of locally produced folk art can provide income to feed families, educate children and stabilize lives disrupted by war and dislocation."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

Help with world hunger by providing rice to hungry people for free. Global NpTech Inveneo is a non-profit social enterprise whose mission is to get the tools of ICT to those in remote and rural communities in the developing world, mostly in Africa. A terrific step-by-step guide guide called Social Bookmarking with del.icio.us

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 24, 2007

PR: I got interested in issues of hunger and poverty when I was in college, and was particularly interested in rural poverty in the developing world, and started studying ways to approach that, alternative ways to approach that. On the other hand, Starbucks reported last year that Fair Trade represented only 4% of their total volume.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2014

My colleague, Stacey Monk , founder of Epic Change and one of the pioneers of peer-to-peer fundraising efforts incorporating social media, shared this NPR story about a Kickstarter Campaign by a Gideon , 15 year old boy who is from in Tanzania Africa. At age 7, he knew his passion was space and wanted to be a rocket ship pilot.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 30, 2009

There is a story about lions in the Savannah in Africa. You don't need to solve world hunger. I often say that if you have these really loud voices in your head, and even in your life sometimes, like real people, it means that you are actually on your path. You are onto the right thing. A friend told me once, "to move toward the roar."

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

It also raised money for famine relief in Africa. Proceeds from SERVE3: The Hard Rock Benefit Album will benefit WHY (World Hunger Year). Profits from the record raised money for famine relief in Ethiopia. The single was quickly followed by the American version, "We Are The World," in the spring of 1985.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

From January to March of 2020, articles focused on food insecurity received scant engagement on Facebook and only broke through during natural disasters, such as flooding and locust swarms in East Africa, that affected food insecurity on a regional scale.

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