Amy Sample Ward

MAY 3, 2011

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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Tech Soup

APRIL 19, 2016

Since then Ushahidi has won other awards, including the MacArthur Award for Creative & Effective Institutions. million posts or testimonies on Ushahidi to benefit an estimated 20 million people in stricken areas like Haiti in 2010 and Nepal in 2015. The Early Days of Crowdsourcing Lead to Amazing Results During Crises.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 31, 2006

One of the major themes of working with the Skoll Foundation is the focus on stories. That's what Jeff does with Participant Productions, and a big piece of the Foundation's efforts are around helping us tell stories. And six of the new SASEs are people I have never met before, and it's cool learning about what they do.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 15, 2008

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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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

Loyal to the Sky received a Nautilus Book Award for world changing books. It's been a foundation to begin with, and to return to. As I wrote in Loyal to the Sky , I spent about five months in India and Nepal right after 9/11. MH: It's been really crucial for me.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2008

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. Tell me about you - how did you end up working in global philanthropy? I am a corporate refugee.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

What's interesting about the way the organization is shifting into this place of more of a foundation, and more of that team, and sustainability, is it's giving me the space to build in my own sustainability. We are doing a media and speaking tour (November, 8-20) of three of our award winning women citizen journalists.

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