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Can love change the world? I hope so!

Amy Sample Ward

This year, TMWL is raising funds that will support the work of 4 passionate women who truly believe that everyone has something to give: “ Mama Lucy &# Kamptoni sold chickens in her Tanzanian village & turned her income into a primary school that now serves over 400 children.

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Ushahidi Develops Innovative Tools for Nonprofits and Others Working to Benefit the Public

Tech Soup

During the early days of our Netsquared project , we held big annual conferences to showcase and fund innovative tech for good. Since then, the nonprofit has won other awards, such as the MacArthur Award for Creative & Effective Institutions. I was there that year and the competition was intense. So much innovation.

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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 typically fund American projects? And then finally one of our project sponsoring organizations is the Tech Museum Awards in San Jose, so there are several US based Tech Laureates who have posted projects. I recently noticed that you had a project from New Orleans, can you tell me about it?

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