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Shouldn’t the Word Phone Be Removed from Mobile? The Use of the Mobile by Nonprofits for Development

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Here are just a few of the many examples of how the humble mobile is being used for development: For those nonprofits working on agricultural issues - The Kenya Agricultural Commodity Exchange (Kace) , provides crop growers with the very latest commodity information via SMS and has helped farmers to quadruple earnings.

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Mobilizing Donors and Activists in an Overwhelmed World

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Given the quantity of organizations, and the enormity of the issues we're faced with today, five qualities are important when designing an action: 1. Many people feel like they can't change issues like the genocide in Darfur, they feel too big. In a time when our world's challenges can feel overwhelming, and there are 1.4

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Empowering Refugees: Interview with Kjerstin Erickson of FORGE

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Erickson founded FORGE (Facilitating Opportunities for Refugee Growth and Empowerment) in 2003 when she was a 20 year-old junior studying public policy at Stanford University. The projects can range from preschools, to libraries and computer training centers, to women empowerment programs. It had been bombed.

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Bringing Women a Global Voice: Jensine Larsen, World Pulse

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I felt an emptiness inside, as a woman, that I wasn't hearing from the teachers that I wanted to about world issues. They came from Sudan, from Saudi Arabia, from all over, some of the most unheard places of the world. We brought professional empowerment mentors and coaches, and also professional editors.

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