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CEO’s Update: Fall 2014

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

My personal goal is to channel the aspirations of the technology community to do more social good. Are you excited about technology benefiting the world? Within a short period, SocialCoding4Good has gone from a Labs pilot project to a growing community driving social impact. It’s not too late to pledge your support for our work.

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"Press 2 for Chickens": Innovating African Radio Stations

NTEN

Bartholomew Sullivan, a regional ICT officer for AFRRI, and Farm Radio International had been in touch with Kubatana, the parent organization of Freedom Fone, in Zimbabwe and thought IVR technology could be used to improve programming at the stations by making the experience and content more interactive. . Photo: Bart Sullivan .

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8 Ways Nonprofits Can Help P2P Fundraisers Meet & Exceed Their Goals

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Getting your community—and in our case, an entire company—excited to fundraise is no easy task, and it’s important to kick-start the campaign with some serious energy. The main benefit of using teams in a peer-to-peer campaign is the ability to lean on your team captains to communicate with fundraisers.

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Empowering Women Citizen Journalists: An Interview with Cristi Hegranes

Have Fun - Do Good

She went from being somebody's servant to somebody who when she walks down the street of her community, people stop her and shake her hand and thank her for the stories that she is telling, or ask, 'When are you going to interview me? We have $2 donors out of Zimbabwe and $20,000 donors out of San Francisco.

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Peer-to-Peer Crowdfunding Myths & How To Ensure Success

The Modern Nonprofit

Build a school in Zimbabwe. The community cries out for that. If you want the same benefits, including teams and personal campaign pages, but at a fraction of the cost of the above platforms, Flipcause has a capped 1.5% Help pay for Sally’s cancer treatment. The more specific, the better. They want to solve a problem.

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How to Use Causes for Your Year-End Fundraising Appeal

NTEN

Once you’ve built a vibrant online community, the end of the year is the perfect time to make a fundraising appeal. And Camfed raised $4,500 to build a roof on a school in Malawi , then turned around and funded another $3,386 project to give shoes to schoolgirls in Zimbabwe. . Fundraising Projects.

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Using Photography to Change the World: An Interview with Paola Gianturco

Have Fun - Do Good

A high school English teacher in Zimbabwe, whose name is Betty Makoni , began hearing stories from her students after school, that they had been raped. The children are ages 6-16, and they're making huge strides by leading a national movement against child rape in Zimbabwe. In this case, the girls were using poetry.