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Citizen Tech: Social Media in Disaster Response

Amy Sample Ward

If web users knew of someone else who needed help, 44 percent would ask other people in their social network to contact authorities, 35 percent would post a request for help directly on a response agency’s Facebook page and 28 percent would send a direct Twitter message to responders. Social media, like all technology, is developed by people.

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Traveling Postcards: Interview with Founder, Caroline Lovell

Have Fun - Do Good

In Uganda, a group of young people made incredible, heartfelt postcards filled with glitter and cut up magazine pictures to send to women in the Congo. The more people who know about Traveling Postcards the better! Lastly we always love to receive an individual card in the mail. Please add your voice to the conversation.

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Guest Post by Stacey Monk: Dogooders Won’t Change the World (Alone)

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Now don’t get me wrong, I love you people. An ecosystem where its members connect, interact, and support not just the people in their circles but people they ‘bump into’ based on some ‘random’ interest and connection. I hate it…It’s not the music that’s the best, it’s the music that the most people can stand.

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Empowering Women Citizen Journalists: An Interview with Cristi Hegranes

Have Fun - Do Good

"Now, 18 months later, all of Juana's children are in school. 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? I have a story that you have to hear.'"

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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. We will lose our success.

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

Saleforce Nonprofit

When we talk about the Global Goals as the blueprint to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all people and the world by 2030, we’re also talking about future generations of leaders who will continue this work beyond 2030. I was born in the Democratic Republic of Congo and at the age of five my father passed away suddenly.

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Announcing… 31 New Favorite Nonprofits for 2013!

Nonprofit Tech for Good

SOS Children’s Villages International :: @ SOS_Children. SOS Children’s Villages works to stop more than half a million children ending up alone, abandoned or in institutions. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) :: @ PETA. Wildlife SOS :: @ WildlifeSOS. FINCA :: @ FINCA. 10×10 :: @ 10x10Act.