Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog
JANUARY 12, 2007
It was my last afternoon in Mali, as I started psychic re-entry process into my normal existence, that I remembered that in real life, hey, I'm a geek. So I dropped by the offices of GeekCorps Mali, which as it turned out was just around the corner from where I was staying at Rebecca and Fode's house in the Quartier Hippodrome.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
NOVEMBER 4, 2010
The site matches skills-based volunteers with nonprofits to do just in time projects like logo or business card design, marketing help, and other small volunteering tasks. We call these projects challenges. Some recently completed projects include: • A new business card design for the Surfrider Foundation’s Portland Chapter. •
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Have Fun - Do Good
FEBRUARY 8, 2007
--Caitlin Cohen of the Sigida Keneyali Project. In December I wrote a book review of Monique and the Mango Rains , the story of a Peace Corps worker's two years working with a midwife in Mali. What is the Sigida Keneyali Project? Sigida Keneyali means “Health in Our Homes” in Bambara, the most common language in Mali.
Tech Soup
JANUARY 19, 2016
Now that the United Nations Millennium Development Goals have expired and in some ways, have succeeded surprisingly well , the UN has developed a new set of even more ambitious goals. The Sustainable Development Goals follow and expand on the previous Millennium Development Goals. I'll say more about that below.
Tech Soup
JANUARY 27, 2015
Created in 1992, Ateliers du Bocage (the name roughly translates to forest workshop) was founded as a project of the Emmaus Social Movement , a postwar European humanitarian movement organized to nonviolently defend and support the most destitute members of society. To date, the project has collected and recycled over half a million phones.
Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog
DECEMBER 21, 2007
We've also been hard at work on several new projects we're hoping to launch in February. The February launches will include the Program for Energy and Sustainable Development at Stanford University, The Danforth Museum of Art in Framingham Massachusetts, and the ARC/Michigan. We've also finished a pro-bono project.
Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog
JANUARY 20, 2007
When Doria and I were in Mali earlier this month, we found that our nephew Fodé Camara had started to work with a group called Siguida Keneyali - Health in Our Homes - an organization working to improve health in Sikoroni, the poorest Quartier in Bamako. There's no doubt a health education component will be key to the project's success.
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