Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 18, 2007

Here's how it works: define a word properly, and the site's sponsors will donate the equivalent of ten grains of rice to the UN WFP. It's also a nice "put your money where your mouth is," not wholy unlike that at the Bronx Zoo's Congo Gorilla Forest, where you choose which gorilla advocacy group your admission fee will support.

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Game Congo Hunger Museum 20

Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 19, 2009

He ran into Congo. He was there for about a month, and then war in Congo was breaking out. He was the first person that we sponsored to our High School Education Program, and he was able to complete his education. He was coming back to his village, and he found that his village was in flames. It had been bombed.

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Interview Sudan Africa Congo 40

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

Twestival Local Weekend : Last February, Twestival raised over $250,000 for charity:water on Twitter on February 13th with more 200 cities sponsoring local tweet, meet, and give parties. Stop Complaining About Cause Fatigue! Okay, with all these contests perhaps you're worried about Cause Fatigue. It's called Why Congo Matters.

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Nptech Social Media Ning Media 91

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 18, 2010

Patrick Ball, Benetech's Chief Scientist and Vice President of our Human Rights Program, is spending much of this year in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Patrick is working with a UN human rights project. According to news reports Chebeya was found dead in his car early the next morning.

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Congo Support Africa National 124

Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 13, 2009

The way we do that is by asking every single woman around the world to sponsor one woman at a time by sending her $27 a month, along with a letter to start a communication link between the two women. The women that we are servicing in Congo, where, if they are lucky, they get $0.20 You get her picture. You get her letters.

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International Interview Bosnia Congo 40

Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 18, 2011

Then we further promote the fundraiser via our website, Facebook (via our Cause and Page) and to lesser degree via Twitter. An example was the opportunity to feature a video about the lack of treatment available for those living with HIV in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on YouTube’s homepage. Book Tour Sponsors.

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Social Media Examples Interview Media 231

Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 2, 2008

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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Global Fund Interview United States 44