Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 26, 2011

A few years ago, Jeff and I went on a pro bono IT consulting project to Uganda to serve a Action for Children, an NGO that fights poverty by preserving families and delivering micro-finance. Our experience in Uganda helped us see how valuable technology and fundraising is to creating change. Interview: Rob Wu, CauseVox Founder.

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Care2

MARCH 18, 2012

It’s been close to two weeks since Invisible Children released it’s "Kony 2012" video, which quickly spread across social networks, blogs, and made headlines across major news networks and newspapers like the NYT and the Washington Post. Has Invisible Children been transparent? The issue is complex. [If

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 20, 2013

The other recipient this year was Kay Ferrell, Professor of Special Education at the University of Northern Colorado in Greeley, who won the Medal for her tremendous work with and on behalf of children and youth who are blind and visually impaired.

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Care2

MARCH 12, 2012

The 30-minute “Kony 2012” video produced by the nonprofit Invisible Children , which generated over 70M views on YouTube over the past week, has caused a firestorm in the nonprofit community. Since 1986 the LRA has abducted 66K children, and turned them into child soldiers. Invisible Children is hoping to change that.

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Care2

JANUARY 21, 2013

This video captured nonprofit’s attention after it received over 80M views in just two weeks after Invisible Children launched it. Nonetheless the video helped Invisible Children raise significant money, which will be publicly released later this year in their 990 form.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2012

The Kony story resonates because it’s the story of an identifible individual doing bodily harm to children. Mary Joyce points out that the film comes off as racist: Invisible Children has no Africans on its board of directors and collects money for itself rather than for Ugandan organizations. ( source ). The issue is complex.

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Tech Soup

MAY 1, 2017

Boston, Massachusetts: Tech Networks of Boston Roundtable: Doing a Data Dive to Find Data About Children and Families. Mukono, Uganda. Kampala, Uganda: Social Media Surgery — Blogging as a Business. Kampala, Uganda: Office 365 at Its Best. ## Europe. ## Asia and Pacific Rim. --> North America. Monday, May 1, 2017.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 4, 2012

In January of this year, nonprofit organization Invisible Children released “Kony 2012,” a video about Joseph Kony. In less than 2 months, the YouTube video has gained over 100 million views and educated millions about the crimes of the Lord’s Resistance Army in Uganda. posted by Carly Rowe , Social Media Specialist.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 9, 2008

s experience as a seven-year-old Tutsi girl living in poverty in a refugee camp in Uganda. By sharing their chickens with the other children, Odette and Inocent empower the group to sell chicken eggs and pool resources to provide for one another??? The children???s Society.??? s basic needs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 19, 2015

No matter your position or place in life, it is imperative to create opportunities for children, so that we can grow up to blow you away.”. It’s the reason we’re not in the Dark Ages anymore. And they are already blowing us away. This generation is doing more than clicking on line, they making change in the world!

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

About a year ago in Kenya, we launched ChildCount+, which helps community health care workers register children under-5 and pregnant mothers in their communities and facilitates monitoring their health. In the 180 clinics spanning two districts where the system has been tested, we’ve been getting roughly a 90% reporting rate.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

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. We know that creativity and freedom of expression go a long way in educating children to be tolerant and open minded. We must raise $1,000 to keep our classes going for another year.

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 16, 2015

No matter your position or place in life, it is imperative to create opportunities for children, so that we can grow up to blow you away.”. Take for example, Mary Grace Henry and her project, Reverse the Course , a site where she sells reversible headbands that she sews and donates all profits to support girls education in Uganda.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

I have two favorites: The Sharing Foundation which supports children in Cambodia and Creative Commons. Help Special Needs Children Improve Social Skills. Support Children. Shaping Youth recommends supporting Age of Conversation to Benefit Variety, The Children's Charity. Can I Sit With You? Life in Africa.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MARCH 8, 2022

Trans Youth Initiative-Uganda is a human rights advocacy organisation that advocates for the rights, issues, and concerns of rural transgender youth women, transgender youth women sex workers, and gender diverse youth in western Uganda. Fundacion GOLEES is based in Costa Rica and works with girls and women ages 10-60.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

And I know you’ve got a little cold, but that’s what children give you. Paul to teach them a bit about what goes on in Ethiopia, or Uganda, or wherever their camps are. I have one organization that serves children and they show the smile or the eyes of the child, but we don’t see the actual whole person.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2008

In February, I was asked to go to Uganda with 15 other bloggers through Compassion International. It was the first time an organization like Compassion had used social networking as a medium to raise awareness and release children from poverty. I had been on trips before, but never like this.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 4, 2010

Women hold these toxins in their body, and this is what they have to pass on to their children. It is about a future that is possible for their children, and for future generations. Over 90 percent of U.S. refineries are on Native American Land. Women are disproportionately affected by environmental toxins. It is about human rights.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 2, 2013

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. Gorilla Doctors provides life-saving medical care to mountain and Grauer’s gorillas in Rwanda, Uganda, and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 29, 2009

SC: I'd started working with an organization called YouthAIDS which provides services and products to children worldwide who are affected by the HIV/AIDS crisis. This challenge benefited the Cambodian Children's Fund out of Cambodia. You shouldn't beat your wives and your children." I raised a lot of money. I thought, "Great.

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