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My Triple Ripple of Kindness: Helping Women in San Jose and Kenya

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The inspiration for this program came from a random act of kindness at a Trader Joe’s last year that leveraged $24,000 donation to a local food bank. Touched by Jenni’s honesty, Carolee matched the $93 and again queried her Facebook friends where to donate the $186. Carolee Hazard, a complete stranger, paid her $207 bill.

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Volunteers show a generous face - The National Newspaper

AFP Blog

Volunteers show a generous face - The National Newspaper: "When Lola Lopez founded Aid in Motion, a Dubai-based NGO, last year to collect and donate clothes to poor rural communities in Kenya, Myanmar and Pakistan, she needed help.

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How to use social media to inspire 40,000 people to give on one day

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Since I’m enroute to Kenya, I invited Jeff Achen to share his thoughts. This incredible online fund raising event raised more than $14 million last year, and we’re hoping to raise the bar higher this year by engaging more than 40,000 donors to donate to any of Minnesota’s more than 26,000 nonprofits using GiveMN.org.

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Underwear for Africa and Reclaiming A September 11th Birthday

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Some of the best grassroots fundraising for projects in developing countries take the form of clothing donation campaigns. Last summer, as part of a campaign I did to support the Cambodian bloggers summit, I got many donations of technology t-shirts. Mothers for Africa is running an underwear donation drive.

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Behind the Scenes Experimentation with Social Gaming for Social Good from HandsOn Network

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Note from Beth: As you read this post, I’ll be at the Ushahidi Board Meeting in Kenya. Social media and social networking suddenly made it possible for HandsOn Network , at the national level, to speak directly to individuals and, intriguingly, for them to speak to each other. Our nation?

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Today is World Refugee Day: Give Refugees a Hand

Have Fun - Do Good

Yesterday's Huffington Post article, 500,000 Iraqis Refugees in 2007 , reported that, "A half-million Iraqis fled their embattled country in 2007, the third consecutive year more Iraqis were displaced than any other nationality." A sponsor of UNCHR will donate $.10 will be donated on your behalf. will be donated on your behalf.

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Advancing Your Mission With GIS Tools

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In 2008, post-election violence erupted in Kenya. Those of us in developed nations are fortunate in some ways that great amounts of data are available -- data about our people, places, and activities. But for many people in the world, especially in developing nations, the data simply isn't available.

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