Candid

MAY 23, 2023

“As a people, we have to tell our own story.” – Evans Okinyi, CEO, East Africa Philanthropy Network Coming from a family of storytellers and strong matriarchs, I was interested in “Black (Women’s) Power: Our Voices.” Joseph Awards After-Party and meetups in between, there was plenty of Black joy and celebration.

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NTEN

DECEMBER 23, 2014

Join us in celebrating the incredible NTEN Community of over 50,000 participants by donating $1 (or $100) today. It was also fun to have João Paulo Vergueiro sharing how Brazil was joining the Giving Tuesday celebration. Check out the long list of champions and support their campaigns!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

I’ve just returned from keynoting the first Social Good Brazil conference that took place in Florianapolis, sometimes referred to the “Silicon Valley” of Brasil and where the nonprofit, social good, innovation, and technology community is leading the social change movement. I had a lot of fun with my keynote.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2014

I encourage you to read his powerful story on our website. The Global Literacy team, led by VP & General Manager Betsy Beaumon, just celebrated our latest major milestones: serving 300,000 members, the majority of whom are American students with disabilities, and offering 250,000 accessible books on the virtual shelves of our library.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 8, 2006

And when we, my co-author Bryant Terry and I, were talking about doing this book project together, and we were trying to think about, is there one word out there to describe the food that we talk about in the book, and that we encourage people to support and to buy and to eat, and we celebrate? For instance, "organic".

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 19, 2006

So we went out and celebrated, and then in the subsequent weeks, it became very clear that the developer who wanted to build on the watershed had no intention of abiding by the citizens' rule. Britt Bravo: What is one of your favorite success stories? Got the citizens of Austin to sign their names enough times to get it on the ballot.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Not sure whether to celebrate or mourn this milestone. Her story is so compelling, I’ve already written a blog post about this incredible woman, entitled Rockstar Nairobi Social Entrepreneur. The chief negotiators of the Treaty for India (GR Raghavender), Brazil (Kenneth Nobrega), and of course Nigeria (Ruth) all participated.

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