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My Triple Ripple of Kindness: Helping Women in San Jose and Kenya

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I used my $100 check to purchase holiday gifts for Next Door Solutions, an agency here in Silicon Valley that safety for battered women and their children through emergency shelter; multiple points of entry for victims; individuals, system and institutional advocacy; crisis intervention; education for victims and the community. Your turn.

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Let’s All Pull Together: Reflections from Harambee 2023

Candid

“Whenever I walk on a campus at an HBCU, I feel like I’m home.” – Susan Taylor Batten, president and CEO, ABFE After the session ended, the Shaw band played “Lift Every Voice and Sing” (also known as the “Negro National Anthem”). She and my great-grandfather worked as sharecroppers while raising eight children.

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12 Early Adopters of the.NGO and.ONG Domains

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Mission: To improve access and quality of education for 4 million children living in underserved communities in India. Mission: To provide free surgeries to the world’s neediest nations on the world’s largest civilian hospital ship. Mission: To establish wildlife sanctuaries by acquiring land and through partnerships with landholders.

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Announcing Our Second Impact Labs Cohort on Zero Hunger: Supporting Small-Scale Farmers Globally

Saleforce Nonprofit

He has been on field missions to co-create solutions with governments and implementing partners in Zambia, Mozambique, Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, Nigeria, and Bangladesh. Senior Humanitarian Climate Crisis Advisor, Save the Children International. Dun-Ying Vicki Yu. Senior Consultant, Slalom. Emma Visman. Eric Munoz.

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Underwear for Africa and Reclaiming A September 11th Birthday

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

More recently, The Sharing Foundation recently ran a successful pajama drive and has over 300 pairs of new pjs for the children at Roteang Orphanage. According to a post on Mothers Fighting for Others blog, undignified underwear the only choice for Kenya???s Mothers for Africa is running an underwear donation drive.

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Citizen Tech: Social Media in Disaster Response

Amy Sample Ward

On September 11, despite having reunited several families, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children had a list of 1,600 children listed as missing by their parents, or who were seeking their families. Indirect Content. Now for indirect content or Mash-ups.

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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. National Marine Life Center :: @ MarineLifeCtr. National MS Society :: @ MSSociety. National Park Foundation :: @ GoParks.