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Can love change the world? I hope so!

Amy Sample Ward

We are starting a movement that has love at the very foundation. At 19, New Jersey native Maggie Doyne used her life savings from babysitting to start Kopila Valley children’s home in Nepal, which has grown to a home for over 40 children, and a school serving over 200 students. I see this work in public maps like Open Green Map.

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How the NetSquared Challenges Have Accelerated Tech for Good

Tech Soup

These challenges helped provide early publicity, support, collaboration opportunities, and funding for now-famous "tech for good" organizations such as Ushahidi , FrontlineSMS , and many others. Since then Ushahidi has won other awards, including the MacArthur Award for Creative & Effective Institutions.

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Empowering Women Citizen Journalists: An Interview with Cristi Hegranes

Have Fun - Do Good

She was also awarded their annual Ida B. Many of our trainees and journalists in Nepal do have children. CH: I was a foreign correspondent in Nepal from 2003 to 2004 and had a really amazing experience in Nepal. I came back to the States after working in Nepal, and I took a job as a feature writer in San Francisco.

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Meet Donna Callejon, Chief Operating Officer of Global Giving

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Do you have a foundation background? Before GlobalGiving I spent a few years helping to build the Washington Area Women's Foundation - and that's when I started becoming a "student' of philanthropy. Do you typically fund American projects? Tell me about you - how did you end up working in global philanthropy?

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