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Can love change the world? I hope so!

Amy Sample Ward

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.

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The 2012 Lights. Camera. Help. Nonprofit Film Festival

Tech Soup

will be awarding a total of approximately $5,000 to the causes represented in the winning films. His short film, Let There Be Sight , about a surgical eyesight camp in Nepal, will premiere at Lights. New this year: The festival has added a keynote address by writer, filmmaker, and philanthropist Turk Pipkin. directly after his keynote.

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2013 NTC Round-Up: Your Takeaways

NTEN

Countries represented: 13 (US, Canada, UK, Korea, Australia, Switzerland, Netherlands, Poland, Belgium, Ireland, Nepal, Mexico, and Ghana). NTEN''s Lifetime Achievement Award Goes To Laura Glenn-Davitan , Common Good Vermont. Four Best Charity Videos Recognised by DoGooder Video Awards 2013 , UK Fundraising. Speakers: 250.

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

Tech Soup

Since then, the nonprofit has won other awards, such as the MacArthur Award for Creative & Effective Institutions. These posts have benefited an estimated 20 million people in stricken areas like Haiti in 2010 and Nepal in 2015. I was there that year and the competition was intense. So much innovation.

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2013 NTC Round-Up: Your Takeaways

NTEN

Countries represented: 13 (US, Canada, UK, Korea, Australia, Switzerland, Netherlands, Poland, Belgium, Ireland, Nepal, Mexico, and Ghana). NTEN''s Lifetime Achievement Award Goes To Laura Glenn-Davitan , Common Good Vermont. Four Best Charity Videos Recognised by DoGooder Video Awards 2013 , UK Fundraising. Speakers: 250.

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How the NetSquared Challenges Have Accelerated Tech for Good

Tech Soup

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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Posts from the Skoll World Forum

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

At last night's awards ceremonies, the highlight was seeing four short films on four of the Skoll Social entrepreneurs. They are definitely tackling market failure in the publishing industry: in Nepal they are now the second largest publisher of children's books in Nepali.

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