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Dancefloor and Balcony: What I learned about emergent online collaboration from Eugene Eric Kim

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There are now 990 actively engaged Fellows— across the five focal countries of Ethiopia, Nigeria, India, Pakistan, and the Philippines—regularly participating in the Leadership Development for Mobilizing Reproductive Health network activities. Eugene Eric Kim is an expert in online culture and collaboration, particularly with new tools.

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Social Media, Networking, and African Women’s Leadership Training in Rwanda

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The project is under the visionary leadership of Cheryl Francisconi who is the director of IIE’s office in Addis Ababa in Ethiopia and has vast expertise in developing, designing, and implementing transformative leadership programs for several decades.

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Nonprofits in the Autonomous World: Will the Bots Take Over?

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We are in the middle of global disruption due to widespread mobile Internet and cloud technology, Big Data, the rise of the collaborative economy and crowdsourcing/funding. When you send a message to this Facebook Messenger bot named Yeshi, she tells her story about how her daily walk for clean water in Ethiopia. .

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Sprint How You Can: Salesforce.org Commons Fosters True Community Collaboration by Going Hybrid

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What do you get when you combine around the table with virtual collaboration? For the uninitiated, Community Sprints are highly collaborative, community-driven events. We’ve since welcomed virtual Sprinters from 25+ countries around the globe, including Australia, Japan, Senegal, Ethiopia, and Brazil. Common Data Models.

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The Networked NGO in India

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I feel the learning is richer and more sticky. Peer exchanges help participants not only form good habits, but they also naturally start to collaborate and work in a networked way. I improvised and had participants pass around a flower.

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Kids and Philanthropy: Teaching Your Children To Be Charitable

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Last winter, after Harry and I had a conversation about global warming (and quite a conversation it was for a then eight-year old), and we collaborated on a series of green videos. Virginia DeBolt pointed me to this very inspiring story about a third grader in Albuquerque who raised $6000 to build a library in Ethiopia.

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The 2016 - 2017 Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar

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Opportunity Collaboration. Opportunity Collaboration. Opportunity Collaboration / Cancún Yucatán, (Int.) Participants will network and learn about other areas of practice, discuss a range of opportunities and challenges faced by different sectors, and work collaboratively to improve impact measurement. Ethiopia / $50.