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Game Friday: Vocabulary, Poverty, and Meaningful Score Keeping

Museum 2.0

When I read the comments on lazylaces (where I found this game), they're split about 50-50 between people wondering about the rice donation strategy and those celebrating their high scores. If you are interested in the leveraging of social media sites to raise money for charity causes, Beth's blog is a great resource.

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An Amazing NpTech Social Media Link Buffet: Take Your Pick!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Gear Up For Giving from the Case Foundation is a month-long series of social media tutorials, to help nonprofits and their supporters understand how to use key tools and techniques to create awareness, catalyze civic action and cultivate new supporters and donors for their causes. Stop Complaining About Cause Fatigue! Inspiration.

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Interview with Zainab Salbi, Founder of Women for Women International

Have Fun - Do Good

The women that we are servicing in Congo, where, if they are lucky, they get $0.20 The women that we are servicing in Congo, where, if they are lucky, they get $0.20 We work in countries like Congo, Rwanda, Sudan, Iraq, Afghanistan, Bosnia, Kosovo, among others. That's the story of Women for Women. Why would my mother betray me?

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How Nelson Mandela’s Legacy to Advance Access to Education Lives On

Saleforce Nonprofit

One example of the incredible change that education can bring to a community is Malaika , a grassroots nonprofit that educates and empowers girls and communities in the Democratic Republic of Congo through a school, a community center, a clean water program, technical classes and and organic farm. NCM: Because education is a human right.

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Benetech: President's Update

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

It’s worth celebrating but even more important, worth recognizing the incredible opportunities that we now have to make a difference on an even broader scale. Overstated claims hurt the cause of the human rights movement over the long term. If we’re going to speak truth to power, then we need to make sure that we are speaking truth.

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The Global Fund for Women: An Interview with Kavita Ramdas

Have Fun - Do Good

You can see the ripples kind of spreading out, but you don't know whether one ripple caused a tadpole to swim a different direction, you don't know whether a bird flew away because the ripples made it change its mind, you don't know whether a flower that might not have grown in that place now is growing in that place.

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