Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 19, 2009

. ** Kjerstin Erickson: FORGE is an international nonprofit organization that works with refugee communities in Africa. What we do is essentially support social entrepreneurship within refugee communities. We bring communities together to identify their top problems, needs, and priorities, and solve them internally.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 25, 2007

The Congo Gorilla Forest , is a special exhibition produced by the Wildlife Conservation Society at the Bronx Zoo. The museum display included information about the issue, a countdown clock to the government's decision, and a running tally of postcards submitted to date.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 15, 2008

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

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Care2

APRIL 22, 2013

Amy and I will provide concrete advice from our new book Social Change Anytime Everywhere on what you need to be doing to build and mobilize your communities through multifaceted campaigns and by integrating social media into your online communications and outreach. How to manage an Online Crisis and avoid alienating your community.

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CauseVox

JUNE 1, 2021

Source: Casa Congo, School for Conservation). So, if you happen to set a goal that is fulfilled quickly, you can always raise the goal and rally your community to keep going. In fact, 80% of the top grossing campaigns through CauseVox use visual storytelling to showcase their cause and crush their fundraising goal. 6) Gamification.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

Facebook’s grant will encourage users of the social network to learn more about service opportunities through ServiceNation’s Facebook Page and connect with MyNation, a new, online social-networking community on ServiceNation.org being launched in preparation for the first National Day of Service on September 11, 2009. Inspiration.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

It's a very creative town, very community oriented, and the energy there is very supportive. There's a need, the women are responding, and our community is doubling over the last year, so we really are at a point of expansion and scaling. We have such a large community, our network is over 40,000, who is depending on us.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 18, 2010

Patrick Ball, Benetech's Chief Scientist and Vice President of our Human Rights Program, is spending much of this year in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Floribert’s death is a great loss for the human rights community.” Patrick is working with a UN human rights project.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 13, 2009

Once the sponsored woman gets into the program - and she usually is one of the most socially excluded women in her own community within a conflict or post-conflict area - she is grouped with a group of 20 other women in what's called a "women's circle." The women that we are servicing in Congo, where, if they are lucky, they get $0.20

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JULY 29, 2022

In 1990, four months after being released from prison, Mandela visited Madison Park High School in Boston to address the community , and he expressed his deep concern about school dropouts both in South Africa and the U.S. I was born in the Democratic Republic of Congo and at the age of five my father passed away suddenly.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 29, 2008

Many museums try to partially break down the walls with outreach in the form of traveling exhibitions and programs in the community. For example, the Holocaust Museum has a great Flash exhibition of Angelina Jolie’s trip to the Congo. But they are limited by resources and logistics.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 22, 2010

This claim is based in large part on the authors’ graphical representations of pre- and post-conflict mortality rates for a variety of countries, and on their critique of five surveys conducted by the International Rescue Committee (IRC) in the Democratic Republic of Congo between 2000 and 2007.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 20, 2009

My presentation concentrated on a few case studies where certain technologies were the appropriate tools for engagement and aided work to connect, empower, and educate youth communities. Take the time to identify your goals focused on living in and inviting youth to co-create a community without knife crime. What do you think?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 2, 2013

Wildlife SOS works toward protecting Indian wildlife, conserving habitat, studying biodiversity, conducting research and creating alternative and sustainable livelihoods for erstwhile poacher communities. Vital Voices works with extraordinary women leaders accelerating peace and prosperity in their communities. FINCA :: @ FINCA.

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Care2

MAY 20, 2009

YouTube just launched the Video for Change program to highlight the most pressing social causes the YouTube community cares about. The new programs hopes to foster the connections between individual activists on the site and nonprofits. YouTube plans to launch the Video for Change campaigns four times a year.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

The March of Dimes community rallied to raise money in Maddie's memory, unleashing a groundswell of support and sympathy expressions. . In 2007, WildlifeDirect had 7 blogs in the Democratic Republic of Congo written written about a specific animal by a conservation professional. More than $550,000 was raised last March. .

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 19, 2007

A month ago I listened to Christine Karumba, the Country Director for Women for Women International in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, tell Honorata's story on the Voices on Genocide Prevention podcast. They enrolled in special job skills classes designed to meet the market needs of their community.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 23, 2006

Since then, the network has grown to include hundreds of members residing in the UK, Rwanda, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Burundi, China, and Canada. Speak with those in your community to spread awareness about injustices that you know about or write to those who are in a position to influence the situation. Use your voice!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 15, 2009

A compelling example good social media fundraising practice comes from WildlifeDirect, a nonprofit based in Nairobi, Kenya founded by Dr. Richard Leakey. According to Paula Kahumbu, Executive Director, their approach to fundraising was to build a worldwide online conservancy community.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 2, 2008

To me, that sort of sums up something very special about the way in which we try to make these resources accessible to women-led initiatives that are often some of the most creative that we are seeing on issues ranging from the environment, to health, to education, to building peace and sustainable communities around the world.

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