Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

Gates is talking about how an NGO’s internal culture needs to be open to learning what isn’t working as well well as what is working. This gets at one of the areas of measurement that interests me the most – the intersection between measurement discipline and organizational culture. Simple, but hard to accomplish.

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JANUARY 30, 2013

One of the examples in the Gates letter highlights this risk: Ethiopia’s recent effort to monitor the progress of its immunization program is a good example of learning from data and—the hardest part—using data to improve delivery of the right solutions. Ethiopia could have ignored this conflict and reported the most favorable data.

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JULY 18, 2013

Went to Ethiopia with Charity:Water to understand water issues and what NGOs are doing. Can you talk to leaders out there about how to infuse workplace cultures with meaning so Millennials will come work for them? Now they are the chair and CEO, respectively, of Soma, "the world''s most innovative water filter."

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 27, 2007

I was particularly moved by the story of Abay from Awash Fontale, Ethiopia who ended female circumcision in her village. Here is her story from Phil Borges' web site : "Abay was born into a culture in which girls are circumcised before age 12.When When it came time for her circumcision ceremony, Abay said, 'No.'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

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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APRIL 24, 2012

In the early years, we were working in China, Nepal, Cambodia, and Ethiopia, where we now purify water for over 200,000 kids daily. We do this in in urban settings in Asia and Africa, where children live at the intersection of two streets: (1) worst water quality conditions and (2) greatest degrees of poverty.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2008

There were a number of social media influentials who reached out to their networks helping to contributing to a community culture of giving on Twitter. The Well That Twitter Built: On September 18th, Mashable's Twitter followers donated $3,536 to Charity:Water, an initative to build wells in Ethiopia.

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