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APRIL 22, 2006

Yesterday I went to see Paul Rusesabagina speak, the man who inspired the movie, Hotel Rwanda. For people who aren't near a city where there is an event, two bloggers, Jill and Marilyn , have started Bloggers for Darfur: A Global Online Community Calling for Action to Stop the Genocide in Darfur. darfur genocide rwanda bloggers

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 1, 2017

If you're holding monthly events gathering the #nptech community, let me know , and I'll include you in the next community calendar. Kigali, Rwanda: Storytelling Event. This roundup of face-to-face nonprofit tech events includes meetups from NetSquared , NTEN's Tech Clubs , and other awesome organizations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

The USIP has been doing some really interesting work looking at this issue around “ dangerous speech ,” stemming from incitement during the Rwanda genocide. Co-create narratives with global partners that are based in local voice and respect for local communities, and invest in building networks that aim at community vitality.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 29, 2009

The site is a growing community of people who believe that social media used by people and institutions in the public interest -- like print, television and radio in the past -- can enable more effective responses to the social, economic and environmental challenges of our time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2007

What if you could become part of an online community that contributes images of similar topics for you to consume? Fundraising Campaigns and Presentations Camera Rwanda Photo Stream Post with an interview Street Kids Fundraising Campaign raised $8,000 from photo group Sharing Foundation Presentation annotated in a flickr photo set.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2008

You can purchase a gift or card that provides AIDS grants in Ghana, Rwanda, and Swaziland. Your donation will help the organization reach more children in poor, rural communities in the United States through early childhood education, literacy, physical activity and nutrition programs. Join the Red Campaign.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

Hundreds of unique, hand-made art postcards, containing words of compassion and solidarity are hand delivered to individuals and communities all over the world, bringing connection, hope, visibility and voice to women and girls whose lives have suffered from isolation, violence or repression. What is the path that brought you to this work?

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 17, 2007

As a result, the UN is making the same mistakes it made on Darfur and Rwanda. They've organized an international Olympic Torch Relay which began on August 9 in Chad, near the Darfur border, and will finish in China in January. We are calling on people of conscience throughout the world to boycott the 2008 Chinese Olympics."

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Forum One

MAY 20, 2009

What the international development community should focus on is turning an eye towards helping the people to help themselves. It is a known fact that over half of international aid never makes it to the actual people in need (only 20 percent of aid ever reached Rwanda during its recent genocide). Empowerment is key.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2008

JournaMarketing has a post called " Why Your Blog Is Worthless without Connectedness " which harkens back to an ongoing debate we've had in this space -- is a blog just a web site or a community? Intel unveiled its support for the Global Education Alliance's pilot program to create an education framework in Rwanda.

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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? We are hopeful that we will be in Rwanda by the end of the year. CH: Yes, we do.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2006

blog shares an interview with entitled " Camera Rwanda: Storytelling using Flickr." There is a fairly large educator community on Second Life and the lessons learned are starting to appear in the blogosphere. Robb Cottingham tells us about a brew-haha brewing in the nonprofit social change space in Canada.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

And you should have technology that allows you to come together with other nonprofits, government agencies, private sector partners, and the communities you serve so you don’t have to go it alone. Interoperability breaks down technical and organizational silos within your nonprofit, as well as between other organizations you may partner with.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 4, 2011

At SFAI, Christy wrote her MA Thesis on Alfredo Jaar's The Rwanda Project, looking specifically at the impact of photographic representations of Africa in the American media. Christy helped found the San Francisco-based digital photography publication, Once Magazine.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 25, 2008

I grew up in Florida in a pretty narrow-minded, and very closed South Asian community. BB: I read in one of your bios that you received a Fulbright grant to go to Rwanda and study the reconciliation process. AD: I feel like I have been asked recently, am I a sociologist, am I an economist, how did I end up in this work?

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 3, 2009

According to the Genocide Prevention Month's site , the genocide in Bosnia began April 6, in Rwanda April 7, in Cambodia April 17, in Darfur April 19, in Armenia April 24, and the Holocast began April 21st. Did you know that six genocides began in the month of April?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2010

And, the low goal was one of the reasons that community rallied with the self-organized surprise party. You Can't Measure Love or Creativity, But These Are Essential Online Community or Network Signs of Life. You can't quantify love as a metric, but it is important sign or signal of life in your online community.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 21, 2008

The mission of the Genocide Intervention Network, or GI-Net, is to empower individuals and communities with the tools to prevent and stop genocide. Our members envision a world in which the global community is willing and able to protect civilians from genocide and mass atrocities. How would you answer that?

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 16, 2009

Women are engaged in their community. But this sense of creating a collective community is more important to women than it is men. It's just natural in our brains, if you look at the brain science and everything around that, women want to build community. I learn about women in Rwanda, and they learn about my life.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 6, 2021

Someone that I’ve known for many years, has been a great friend to Bloomerang and our community, but never had her on the webinar series. “Rush back one of the enclosed Thanksgiving voucher to help a neighbor in our community today,” versus, “Your compassion can give blessings to your neighbors.”

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 26, 2008

Examples of socially rousing photography permeate our history: Vietnam, Rwanda, 9-11’s Ground Zero. Our annual summer camps and year-round programs create hope and opportunity through socially relevant popular education, community-building, and creative expression geared toward developing solutions.

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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." Our country director in Rwanda was a refugee all her life. Every single one.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 24, 2012

Created by Alyson Kapin four years ago, WomenWhoTech is a network for thriving community of women in technology professions by giving women an open platform to share their talents, experiences, and insights. I organized and moderated a panel called “ Women Who Tech Globally.”

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 4, 2012

Note From Beth: Just before I left for Rwanda, I caught some interesting discussion threads about organizational adoption of networked ways of working on Twitter coming from the #COFLA hashtag as a result of the Council on Foundations gathering in Florida. How do we help leadership understand the value of engaging in social communications?

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Care2

AUGUST 22, 2014

Engagement Strategies for Niche Communities Vote Here: [link] sxsw.com/vote/37990. Growing an Education Innovation Community. New Models in Higher Ed: From Texas to Rwanda. Blurred Lines: How to Engage Brand Super-Champions Vote Here: [link] sxsw.com/vote/37716. Sync All Your Data (No, For Real). Vote Here: [link].

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 23, 2006

Later, they learned that it happened again and again – in the cases of Cambodia, Bosnia and Rwanda - and it was still happening but nobody was doing anything about it. 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.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 19, 2007

They enrolled in special job skills classes designed to meet the market needs of their community. In the Voices of Genocide Prevention interview , Christine Karumba said that Honorata now works for Women for Women International training other women to, " understand their role in participating in rebuilding of their community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2007

Child's Play Charity targets gamers as a donor community, by Penny Arcade , raising millions mostly to provide games and equipment to child life programs at leading hospitals around the world. Your donated laptop will reach a child in Afghanistan, Cambodia, Haiti, Mongolia or Rwanda in the same early 2008 timeframe.

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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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