Candid

MAY 23, 2023

Panelists from Brazil, Kenya, and Jamaica discussed the importance of empowering communities in the African diaspora. When looking at issues, we students would address the problem, examine the root causes, and seek and push for solutions.

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MAY 31, 2021

For example, Made In The Streets is a nonprofit working to “love and serve children from the streets of Nairobi, Kenya – meeting their physical, emotional, and spiritual needs; loving them fully; equipping them to earn a living and sending them out to a new life.” Donors feel close and connected to the beneficiary of their gift.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 6, 2014

Kakamega, Kenya: Kakamega Maker Party. Busia, Kenya: Maker Party Western Kenya. San Francisco, California: Cause Funding: Indiegogo + Cause Funder: Geek Club Books, Autism Story Apps. Thursday, October 30, 2014. Mukono, Uganda: Net2uganda Computer Training Meetup for Poor Rural Primary School and Community.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

Kisumu, Kenya: Social Media Week. Philadelphia, PA: Free Stuff for Nonprofits and Good Causes! Busia, Kenya: Building for the Future with Appmaker-Mozilla Western Kenya Network. Busia, Kenya: Social Media Week Event. Toronto, Canada: Digital Storytelling. September 10. Portland, OR: Digital Storytelling 101.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Civic Hacking: Connecting Coders with Causes. Busia, Kenya. NetSquared Kenya and Mozilla Caravan (Kisumu City, Kenya). Busia, Kenya: Turning Information into Action — Net2 Kenya Mombasa Local Network. . --> North America. Tuesday, November 11, 2014. Net2 KenyaWise Program.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Civic Hacking: Connecting Coders with Causes. Busia, Kenya. NetSquared Kenya and Mozilla Caravan (Kisumu City, Kenya). Busia, Kenya: Turning Information into Action — Net2 Kenya Mombasa Local Network. . --> North America. Tuesday, November 11, 2014. Net2 KenyaWise Program.

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Global Giving

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Raising money for personal causes, and medical fundraising, in particular, is having a moment in places like India with crowdfunding websites like GlobalGiving’s partner, Impact Guru. BitPesa, Banqu, and UCash are scaling similar concepts in Kenya, Indonesia, and India. Crowdfunding to unlock empathy and investment capital.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 29, 2016

Kisumu, Kenya: Storymakers 2016 — Kisumu. Kakamega, Kenya: Storymakers 2016 — Kakamega. Kenya: NetSquared Camp — Storytelling 2016. Mukono, Uganda: How to Create a Digital Photo Story to Fundraise for a Community Cause. Busia, Kenya: NetSquared Camp — Storytelling 2016. Thursday, March 31.

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Global Giving

AUGUST 21, 2018

Companies have customers and employees who want to give to a good cause, but they often don’t want their customers and employees to have to become familiar with another platform or leave their own website. API For Cause Marketing. Featured Photo: Bridging the technology gap in Denver and Kenya by Technology Partnership.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

I stopped in London on my way back to the US from Kenya for a couple of book events. Find a free agent who can help our cause. I stopped in London on my way back to the US from Kenya for a couple of book events. Engage people in your organization who don’t understand social media.

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MARCH 7, 2011

She co-founded Hope Runs , a non-profit organization in Kenya and is is a published author writing on such diverse topics as social media strategy , saving money , and natural living. Her second book, exploring how causes can excel using Twitter, comes out in the summer of 2011. Find her on Twitter – @claired.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 26, 2013

But more than anything, hackathons are fun events to network and meet allies interested in supporting your cause. The hackathon model is ideal for nonprofits and libraries because it brings together motivated volunteers to expedite a project on a limited budget. Hackathons for Social Good.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 19, 2011

She's also the wife of Kenya Masala , whose song, "Mango Delight," I use for the Big Vision Podcast's intro and outro. Their book is, Causing a Scene: Extraordinary Pranks in Ordinary Places with Improv Everywhere. You can listen and subscribe to the Big Vision Podcast via iTunes , its landing page , or on the player above.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

Los Angeles, California: Nonprofit and Cause Marketing with Digital Media. Busia, Kenya: Net2 Kenya Subregional Conferences — Kisumu Busia and Kakamega. Busia, Kenya: Fast, Affordable, Safe, and Transparent — FAST Africa Campaign 2016. Wednesday, September 7, 2016. Thursday, September 8, 2016.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 13, 2014

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Civic Hacking: Connecting Coders with Causes. Busia, Kenya. Maker Party Western Kenya. Seattle, WA: Creating a Roadmap for Leadership Succession, a 2-Part Series with Betsy Lieberman (Part 2). Tuesday, November 11, 2014. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: Bagels and Bytes — Westmoreland.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2014

Within just 10 days of folding, Foldit players helped decipher the structure of an AIDs-causing virus and produced an accurate 3D model of the enzyme, a problem that had eluded scientists and supercomputers for more than 10 years. In Philanthropy. Zynga.org ( [link] ) was created with the mission to use games to help those in need.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Mary Mwende told us about her journey from Mombasa, Kenya, to being one of ten girls chosen for the Global Give Back Circle , a mentoring and empowerment program. From here you can view real youth causes and support youth-focused nonprofits directly.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

The Water is Life project got underway to help children in Kenya last November. He also appears to be a very creative fundraiser having set up some cause-related marketing efforts on his site. There have also been multi-channel events to raise awareness for causes and charities. Is there such a thing as "authentic generosity"?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

Kami Huyse, my business partner at Zoetica, gave a presentation at PRSA Conference in Washington, DC about social media integrated into cause-related marketing and CSR (it is the research we’re working on as part of our fellowship with the Society for New Communications Research ). The Networked Nonprofit Nairobi Kenya on November 18th.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 19, 2014

Kisumu, Kenya: Social Media Week. Philadelphia, PA: Free Stuff for Nonprofits and Good Causes! September 10. Portland, OR: Digital storytelling for fun and nonprofits. September 17. Denver, CO: Beyond Facebook and Twitter: Storytelling Through Social Media. September 23. September 24. London, United Kingdom: Digital Storytelling.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2009

Twitter is establishing itself as a charitable giving and cause marketing channel. . The dual purpose was to promote Comm's recently published book and to raise money for a ministry that provides clean water in Kenya. First time you can raise money for worthy cause by sending a tweet. Each tweet raises 10 cents for CARE.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Right before Thanksgiving, I was in London on my way back from Kenya. Although she had to take off some time from school due to her illness, Leng Sopharath bounced back and graduated this year! I am applying for jobs related to my accounting major. You are my good parents because I am an orphan. I love all of you!&#.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 14, 2014

Kickstarter makes it clear that it isn't for direct charity or cause funding, but about project creation. Nonprofit Success Story: Ushahidi, a nonprofit headquartered in Kenya, used Kickstarter to launch production of BRCK, a Wi-Fi router and mobile modem built to withstand the elements. – to raise money for your cause.

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Tech Soup

MAY 9, 2016

Busia, Kenya: NetSquared Kenya Supporting Encryption and Journalism. Wellington, New Zealand: Getting Stuff Done: Essential Online Tools for Good Causes. NetSquared East Africa (South) Regional Ambassador's Summit for Local Organizers. Tuesday, May 17, 2016. Abidjan, Ivory Coast: Abidjan NetSquared Monthly Meetup.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

My colleague, Evone Heyning, calls this “ more sticky interactions.&# It will also be interesting to track how Jumo helps organizations and causes attract new supporters and what is required in terms of time commitment and strategy to be successful. Argentina, France, India, or Kenya?&#

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Tech Soup

MAY 26, 2011

Here are just a few of the many examples of how the humble mobile is being used for development: For those nonprofits working on agricultural issues - The Kenya Agricultural Commodity Exchange (Kace) , provides crop growers with the very latest commodity information via SMS and has helped farmers to quadruple earnings. increase in a.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 13, 2015

From this moment on, I truly felt an emotional connection to the foundation's work in Kenya and Tanzania and appreciated the reality of these everyday problems that are so often looked over in favor of more dramatic conflict. I don't think I have been more blown away by a technological advance than this one.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

Note from Beth: As you read this post, I’ll be at the Ushahidi Board Meeting in Kenya. Prizes like Jet Blue tickets, iPads and small cash donations to the player’s cause of choice are offered as incentives. I thought it would be a great opportunity to share a couple of guest posts this week.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Kickstarter makes it clear that it isn't for direct charity or cause funding, but about project creation. Nonprofit Success Story: Ushahidi, a nonprofit headquartered in Kenya, used Kickstarter to launch production of BRCK, a Wi-Fi router and mobile modem built to withstand the elements. – to raise money for your cause.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 20, 2014

As summer starts, we’ll report on what happened to Facebook Causes, some big developments in cloud computing including the launch of Salesforce1, a big partnership between Salesforce and Microsoft that bodes well for charities, and the launch of Box.org, free cloud storage for nonprofits. The Demise of Facebook Causes.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 23, 2016

There are digital literacy trainings for women springing up in Bangladesh, Internet cafés for women opening doors in Argentina, and women leaders in Kenya prototyping mobile apps that send out alerts if a woman’s safety is threatened.

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But, no matter how noble a cause, a nonprofit is still a business. imagine living in a refugee camp in Kenya. They’re examples of what it means to be mission-driven: true helpers that provide support to some of our nation’s most vulnerable people and communities. While things may not be ideal here in the U.S.,

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 19, 2009

I was in high school, I was 17 and my first trip to Africa was to Kenya with my family, just on a picture safari. It wasn't until I got to Kenya and saw how many kids were just dying to go to school and would do anything that I realized that that's not true all over the world. That's when I think my worldview was originally rocked.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

We have a vision to build a sickle cell-centric hospital in Western Kenya.” We just recently we’ve got a project in Kenya with our partner Valley Light and their funding partner in America, Just One Africa. He also went to his firm and said, “Hey, this is a worthwhile cause.” So there’s a need.

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EveryAction

MARCH 16, 2017

Are you passionate about conservation and environmental causes? Wangari Maathai was a renowned environmental political activist in Kenya. Since then, she's been named a White House Champion of Change and has written (and continues to write) to advocate for environmental causes. askformore. Rachel Carson. Wangari Maathai.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 31, 2010

We've come to a degree of understanding about the root causes of the crisis: man-made greenhouse gases -- carbon dioxide, among them being the greatest. I think that more and more of us are aware that the climate crisis is real. It's serious. It's probably the biggest crisis to afflict, certainly our species. Cross-posted from BlogHer.com.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 10, 2014

Busia, Kenya: NetSquared kenya : Trainer of trainers. Victoria, Canada: What makes crowdfunding work (for causes). Abidjan, Ivory Coast: Abidjan NetSquared Meetup Group Monthly Meetup. Wednesday, March 19. Research Triangle, NC: NCT4G Social. San Francisco, CA: We’re going to the Geeks for Good Jam! Friday, March 21.

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