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Before the age of computers and social media, the broadcasting of live imagery from Ethiopia culminated in Live Aid, one of the most successful charity events at that time. TechSoup joined the viral phenomenon that's been making waves in the past couple of weeks on the Internet. MORE
Yohannes Gebregeorgis "Moved by the lack of children's books and literacy in his native Ethiopia, Yohannes Gebregeorgis established Ethiopia Reads , bringing free public libraries and literacy programs to thousands of Ethiopian children." Today, her 10,000 Girls program is helping girls succeed in school and learn business skills." ** Related blog posts • Vote for Ethiopia Reads' Yohannes Gebregeorgis as CNN's hero of the year from The Latest Word. MORE
The project is under the visionary leadership of Cheryl Francisconi who is the director of IIE’s office in Addis Ababa in Ethiopia and has vast expertise in developing, designing, and implementing transformative leadership programs for several decades. MORE
This week's Have Fun, Do Good Friday Video is the I Love My Hair song from Sesame Street. MORE
Luke’s Health Care Foundation, shared that “this video was produced by Seth Demings, a filmmaker who visited the hospital in March 2014 and felt compelled to record and share some stories about what is happening in Soddo, Ethiopia.” MORE
Profits from the record raised money for famine relief in Ethiopia. Remember during Christmas 1984 when everyone got the 45, "Do They Know It's Christmas?" recorded by Band Aid? The single was quickly followed by the American version, "We Are The World," in the spring of 1985. MORE
They asked everyone born in September to give up birthday presents and ask their friends and family for donations to build water wells in Ethiopia instead. On September 3, I blogged and tweeted about a story about two interesting social media fundraising opportunities in Africa. MORE
Oxfam announced yesterday that Starbucks signed an agreement with Ethiopian farmers: "Starbucks and Ethiopia have finalized an agreement that ends their trademark dispute and brings both sides together in partnership to help Ethiopian farmers. Guess what? Your advocacy made a difference. MORE
that discussed a remarkable GIS project conducted by the IRC to plan for the location of school sites in Ethiopia. Every day, millions of rural children in Ethiopia do not attend school. The IRC Ethiopia program therefore had to build its geographic database from the ground up. Behar Hussein, the IRC Ethiopia GIS coordinator, trained eight people in the use of Garmin eTrex Vista GPS units to aid in the survey of 491 villages. MORE
Went to Ethiopia with Charity:Water to understand water issues and what NGOs are doing. Throughout the day, we''ll be live blogging sessions from MCON13 , a virtual conference to help leaders engage the Millennial generation. Here are my notes from the second session, a talk by Mike Del Ponte with a brief Q&A at the end. Find Mike Del Ponte at @mikedelponte on Twitter. Mike is the co-founder of Soma: drinksoma.com. He also founded the nonprofit Sparkseed. MORE
In case you're wondering, Charity Water "invested (my) money with local partners, Relief Society of Tigray (REST) and Action Against Hunger (ACF) in Ethiopia and Pump Aid in Malawi, to build and rehabilitate freshwater wells and spring protections for people in need." Author: Jonathan Weldon. MORE
has just launched an inspiring and informative catalog that lets you and your child explore a map of the world and imagine how simple gifts, vitamins for infants, library books for kids in rural America, or an apple tree in Ethiopia are extraordinary resources. MORE
Ecosia, a nonprofit search engine which uses its revenue to plant trees , is currently planting trees in Ethiopia. Archives. by Zoe Allen. Find out how you can leverage one of the fastest growing social media platforms to reach a huge new audience. MORE
When you send a message to this Facebook Messenger bot named Yeshi, she tells her story about how her daily walk for clean water in Ethiopia. . Click to Check Out Beth Bot. What is the “autonomous world?” MORE
In 2008, even more people joined and raised over $1 million for clean water projects in Ethiopia. I first came across @paullyoung in September, 2008 when he implemented a birthday campaign as part of charity:water’s September campaign. MORE
Save the Children has just launched an inspiring and informative catalog that lets you and your child explore a map of the world and imagine how simple gifts, vitamins for infants, library books for kids in rural America, or an apple tree in Ethiopia are extraordinary resources. MORE
You can look at #sfaddis to see what they did recently from Addis Ababa in Ethiopia. Today’s Community Builder chat focused on examples and best practices for connecting on and offline community activities, events, and organizing. It was a really rich discussion – thank you to all those who joined in, shared, asked questions, and contributed! Recap: October. Get the October Chat archive. MORE
I was particularly moved by the story of Abay from Awash Fontale, Ethiopia who ended female circumcision in her village. MORE
Photo credit: Ethiopia 3 by babasteve unifem women social entrepreneurI have to admit that I had never heard of UNIFEM (United Nations Developing Fund for Women) until I read an article about Nicole Kidman in Ladies Home Journal while on jury duty--she is one of their Goodwill Ambassadors. MORE
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. Last August, I saw the impact of Twitter's velocity first-hand with a fundraising experiment. MORE
Glimmer of Hope to Fight Poverty | 3:00 A Glimmer of Hope A beautifully produced video by A Glimmer of Hope, a non-profit organization that helps lift women and children out of extreme poverty in rural Ethiopia, with 100% of all donations directly funding projects. Change the world, one video at a time.A MORE
Depending on the community the children come from (and excluding Ethiopia as a separate historical case of Christianity sans missionaries), the children are much more likely to be Christian by the time they are young adults (if they were not already Christian when they entered). MORE
Scott Harrison, founder of charity: water was enroute to Ethiopia when we discussed Twestival. charity: water have invited Amanda to visit Ethiopia with them at the start of April (costs paid by private donors, not fundraising). MORE
Ethiopia is rolling out 250,000 laptops to its schoolteachers nationwide, all running on Microsoft's cloud platform, called Azure.The laptops will allow teachers to download Microsoft cloud computing gets down to earth | Philly | 07/15/2009: "As U.S. companies start exploring doing some of this computing this year, a school system on the other side of the globe has already leapt into the cloud. MORE
from the Director's Statement, Black Gold Oxfam America has joined the movement to give Ethiopian coffee growers a greater percentage of coffee profits: "Oxfam is calling on coffee industry leaders to sign agreements that recognize Ethiopia’s right to control the use of its coffee ’brand names.’ MORE
The creators of Global Girlfriend's merchandise come from all over the world: Brazil, Ethiopia, India, Indonesia, Nepal, Nicaragua, South Africa, Thailand, the United States and Vietnam. According to a recent article in Muncie, Indiana's Star Press , "the National Retail Federation expects the average consumer to spend $791.10 this holiday season, up from $738.11 last year." If you're going to spend that kind of cash, why not give a gift that gives back? MORE
Black Gold tells the story of Tadesse Meskela, the manager of the Oromia Coffee Farmers Co-operative Union in Ethiopia. 67% of Ethiopia's export income is from coffee, so Meskela's story is the story of many Ethiopian farmers. MORE
Owen is based in Ethiopia; his wife works for an NGO that builds clinics. I got a vivid image of new possibilities for mashing up data a few weeks ago at Forum One's Online Community Summit in Sonoma. For me the highlight of the event (though there were many highlights) was a talk given by Owen Barder of AidInfo. He spoke of his vision for a "cloud of aid information". MORE
The primary components of the message, which discusses the areas of innovation and work that the Gates Foundation invests in, can be summarized as: Setting clear goals Measuring Looking at the data / getting feedback Improving the process Repeat This general framework has been applied to polio eradication in Nigeria, improved health services in Ethiopia, and education improvement here in the U.S. Ethiopia could have ignored this conflict and reported the most favorable data. MORE
I learned this technique from Cheryl Francisconi, director of the IIE Addis-Ababa Office in Ethiopia, last month in Rwanda ,who uses a stone that has been held by many people. MORE
Senator Paul Tsongas, who served in Ethiopia, was the second. "It is time to establish our collective responsibility," --Senator Chris Dodd. During his speech this afternoon at the Service Nation Summit , Senator Christopher Dodd (D-CT) described being inspired to serve after hearing John F. MORE
Virginia DeBolt pointed me to this very inspiring story about a third grader in Albuquerque who raised $6000 to build a library in Ethiopia. When I was a kid, Lucy the Elephant , was in a state of disrepair. MORE
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. MORE
Like Marion Conway, I was struck by this photo of him pointing to data handwritten on the walls = tracking immunization records from a rural health clinic in Ethiopia. A decade ago, there was no official record of a child’s birth or death in rural Ethiopia. MORE
These efforts will directly benefit children in Gambia, Zambia, Kenya and Ethiopia. Vegetable seeds in Ethiopia. ChildFund International just rebranded from the Christian Children’s Fund last week as an effort to demonstrate a singular commitment to children’s welfare today and tomorrow (image: Faith Smiling by ChildFund, NZ ). Along with the new brand are new Twitter (@ childfund ), Facebook , blogging and YouTube efforts. MORE
Mark Karnes" by Soddo Christian Hospital (Ethiopia). The world is changing. The landscape of communication is evolving at an exponential rate, and digital media creation is riding at the head of the wave. MORE
Oxfam America won the “Advocacy Campaign” prize for their campaign to persuade Starbucks to let Ethiopia use the trademarked phrase “Ethiopian Coffee” in selling their own coffee. MORE
million and build 333 wells in Ethiopia. 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. MORE
The participating NGOs include Women’s Leadership NGOs from Ethiopia I’ll be co-training with Kalyani Menon-Sen, a feminist activist, researcher and adult educator based in Delhi, India to deliver sessions on the Networked NGO, networks, and networking with social media. MORE
In the early years, we were working in China, Nepal, Cambodia, and Ethiopia, where we now purify water for over 200,000 kids daily. [Editor's note: The following is an article from the March 2012 issue of NTEN:Change. Read the rest of the issue when you subscribe to the journal for free! ] MORE
Whether you want to raise money for clean water in Ethiopia, vaccinations for children in Haiti, or a safe home for a puppy in Mississipi, with a Birthday Cause your friends can give in honor of your special day. MORE
Yeshi , is a Facebook Messenger bot created by charity:water to simulate the experience of many young girls in Ethiopia who walk six hours a day to get clean water. The Bots are Here: Leading With Our Humanity in the Age of Automation by Allison Fine and Beth Kanter. MORE
Ethiopia / $50. Ethiopia. Thousands of nonprofit pros rely on our annual Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar to discover skill-building, strategy-slaying, network-enhancing nonprofit events. Today, we're excited to announce the all-new list for 2017! MORE
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Have Fun - Do Good
JUNE 22, 2007
Oxfam announced yesterday that Starbucks signed an agreement with Ethiopian farmers: "Starbucks and Ethiopia have finalized an agreement that ends their trademark dispute and brings both sides together in partnership to help Ethiopian farmers. Guess what? Your advocacy made a difference.
Confessions of a Non-Profit Executive Director
JULY 10, 2008
that discussed a remarkable GIS project conducted by the IRC to plan for the location of school sites in Ethiopia. Every day, millions of rural children in Ethiopia do not attend school. The IRC Ethiopia program therefore had to build its geographic database from the ground up. Behar Hussein, the IRC Ethiopia GIS coordinator, trained eight people in the use of Garmin eTrex Vista GPS units to aid in the survey of 491 villages.
AFP Blog
JULY 15, 2009
Ethiopia is rolling out 250,000 laptops to its schoolteachers nationwide, all running on Microsoft's cloud platform, called Azure.The laptops will allow teachers to download Microsoft cloud computing gets down to earth | Philly | 07/15/2009: "As U.S. companies start exploring doing some of this computing this year, a school system on the other side of the globe has already leapt into the cloud.
Everyaction
OCTOBER 5, 2016
Ethiopia / $50. Ethiopia. Thousands of nonprofit pros rely on our annual Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar to discover skill-building, strategy-slaying, network-enhancing nonprofit events. Today, we're excited to announce the all-new list for 2017!
See What's Out There
OCTOBER 17, 2011
Glimmer of Hope to Fight Poverty | 3:00 A Glimmer of Hope A beautifully produced video by A Glimmer of Hope, a non-profit organization that helps lift women and children out of extreme poverty in rural Ethiopia, with 100% of all donations directly funding projects. Change the world, one video at a time.A
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
FEBRUARY 4, 2013
Like Marion Conway, I was struck by this photo of him pointing to data handwritten on the walls = tracking immunization records from a rural health clinic in Ethiopia. A decade ago, there was no official record of a child’s birth or death in rural Ethiopia.
Connection Cafe
MAY 17, 2012
In case you're wondering, Charity Water "invested (my) money with local partners, Relief Society of Tigray (REST) and Action Against Hunger (ACF) in Ethiopia and Pump Aid in Malawi, to build and rehabilitate freshwater wells and spring protections for people in need." Author: Jonathan Weldon.
Have Fun - Do Good
MARCH 7, 2007
from the Director's Statement, Black Gold Oxfam America has joined the movement to give Ethiopian coffee growers a greater percentage of coffee profits: "Oxfam is calling on coffee industry leaders to sign agreements that recognize Ethiopia’s right to control the use of its coffee ’brand names.’
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
NOVEMBER 25, 2007
has just launched an inspiring and informative catalog that lets you and your child explore a map of the world and imagine how simple gifts, vitamins for infants, library books for kids in rural America, or an apple tree in Ethiopia are extraordinary resources.
Have Fun - Do Good
OCTOBER 29, 2010
This week's Have Fun, Do Good Friday Video is the I Love My Hair song from Sesame Street.
NTEN
JANUARY 30, 2013
The primary components of the message, which discusses the areas of innovation and work that the Gates Foundation invests in, can be summarized as: Setting clear goals Measuring Looking at the data / getting feedback Improving the process Repeat This general framework has been applied to polio eradication in Nigeria, improved health services in Ethiopia, and education improvement here in the U.S. Ethiopia could have ignored this conflict and reported the most favorable data.
Amy Sample Ward
OCTOBER 28, 2010
You can look at #sfaddis to see what they did recently from Addis Ababa in Ethiopia. Today’s Community Builder chat focused on examples and best practices for connecting on and offline community activities, events, and organizing. It was a really rich discussion – thank you to all those who joined in, shared, asked questions, and contributed! Recap: October. Get the October Chat archive.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JULY 9, 2009
These efforts will directly benefit children in Gambia, Zambia, Kenya and Ethiopia. Vegetable seeds in Ethiopia. ChildFund International just rebranded from the Christian Children’s Fund last week as an effort to demonstrate a singular commitment to children’s welfare today and tomorrow (image: Faith Smiling by ChildFund, NZ ). Along with the new brand are new Twitter (@ childfund ), Facebook , blogging and YouTube efforts.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
MAY 15, 2012
The project is under the visionary leadership of Cheryl Francisconi who is the director of IIE’s office in Addis Ababa in Ethiopia and has vast expertise in developing, designing, and implementing transformative leadership programs for several decades.
Amy Sample Ward
DECEMBER 16, 2008
Whether you want to raise money for clean water in Ethiopia, vaccinations for children in Haiti, or a safe home for a puppy in Mississipi, with a Birthday Cause your friends can give in honor of your special day.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JUNE 6, 2017
When you send a message to this Facebook Messenger bot named Yeshi, she tells her story about how her daily walk for clean water in Ethiopia. . Click to Check Out Beth Bot. What is the “autonomous world?”
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JANUARY 22, 2018
Yeshi , is a Facebook Messenger bot created by charity:water to simulate the experience of many young girls in Ethiopia who walk six hours a day to get clean water. The Bots are Here: Leading With Our Humanity in the Age of Automation by Allison Fine and Beth Kanter.
John Haydon
NOVEMBER 4, 2014
Luke’s Health Care Foundation, shared that “this video was produced by Seth Demings, a filmmaker who visited the hospital in March 2014 and felt compelled to record and share some stories about what is happening in Soddo, Ethiopia.”
Have Fun - Do Good
NOVEMBER 14, 2008
Yohannes Gebregeorgis "Moved by the lack of children's books and literacy in his native Ethiopia, Yohannes Gebregeorgis established Ethiopia Reads , bringing free public libraries and literacy programs to thousands of Ethiopian children." Today, her 10,000 Girls program is helping girls succeed in school and learn business skills." ** Related blog posts • Vote for Ethiopia Reads' Yohannes Gebregeorgis as CNN's hero of the year from The Latest Word.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
SEPTEMBER 27, 2011
In 2008, even more people joined and raised over $1 million for clean water projects in Ethiopia. I first came across @paullyoung in September, 2008 when he implemented a birthday campaign as part of charity:water’s September campaign.
Have Fun - Do Good
NOVEMBER 20, 2006
Black Gold tells the story of Tadesse Meskela, the manager of the Oromia Coffee Farmers Co-operative Union in Ethiopia. 67% of Ethiopia's export income is from coffee, so Meskela's story is the story of many Ethiopian farmers.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
MAY 1, 2012
The participating NGOs include Women’s Leadership NGOs from Ethiopia I’ll be co-training with Kalyani Menon-Sen, a feminist activist, researcher and adult educator based in Delhi, India to deliver sessions on the Networked NGO, networks, and networking with social media.
Have Fun - Do Good
FEBRUARY 4, 2009
Profits from the record raised money for famine relief in Ethiopia. Remember during Christmas 1984 when everyone got the 45, "Do They Know It's Christmas?" recorded by Band Aid? The single was quickly followed by the American version, "We Are The World," in the spring of 1985.
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.
Idealware
JULY 20, 2008
Planning Education Projects in Rural Ethiopia Using GIS (ArcGIS) Useful case study on the IRCs use of GIS tools to plan school sites in Ethiopia (tip of the hat to Allan Benamer).
Have Fun - Do Good
NOVEMBER 17, 2006
The creators of Global Girlfriend's merchandise come from all over the world: Brazil, Ethiopia, India, Indonesia, Nepal, Nicaragua, South Africa, Thailand, the United States and Vietnam. According to a recent article in Muncie, Indiana's Star Press , "the National Retail Federation expects the average consumer to spend $791.10 this holiday season, up from $738.11 last year." If you're going to spend that kind of cash, why not give a gift that gives back?
Have Fun - Do Good
SEPTEMBER 12, 2008
Senator Paul Tsongas, who served in Ethiopia, was the second. "It is time to establish our collective responsibility," --Senator Chris Dodd. During his speech this afternoon at the Service Nation Summit , Senator Christopher Dodd (D-CT) described being inspired to serve after hearing John F.
Tech Soup Blog
AUGUST 21, 2014
Before the age of computers and social media, the broadcasting of live imagery from Ethiopia culminated in Live Aid, one of the most successful charity events at that time. TechSoup joined the viral phenomenon that's been making waves in the past couple of weeks on the Internet.
Tech Soup Blog
OCTOBER 28, 2014
Mark Karnes" by Soddo Christian Hospital (Ethiopia). The world is changing. The landscape of communication is evolving at an exponential rate, and digital media creation is riding at the head of the wave.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
SEPTEMBER 22, 2008
They asked everyone born in September to give up birthday presents and ask their friends and family for donations to build water wells in Ethiopia instead. On September 3, I blogged and tweeted about a story about two interesting social media fundraising opportunities in Africa.
Have Fun - Do Good
JULY 5, 2006
Photo credit: Ethiopia 3 by babasteve unifem women social entrepreneurI have to admit that I had never heard of UNIFEM (United Nations Developing Fund for Women) until I read an article about Nicole Kidman in Ladies Home Journal while on jury duty--she is one of their Goodwill Ambassadors.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JUNE 25, 2012
I learned this technique from Cheryl Francisconi, director of the IIE Addis-Ababa Office in Ethiopia, last month in Rwanda ,who uses a stone that has been held by many people.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
SEPTEMBER 8, 2010
Depending on the community the children come from (and excluding Ethiopia as a separate historical case of Christianity sans missionaries), the children are much more likely to be Christian by the time they are young adults (if they were not already Christian when they entered).
Influence
NOVEMBER 20, 2008
Owen is based in Ethiopia; his wife works for an NGO that builds clinics. I got a vivid image of new possibilities for mashing up data a few weeks ago at Forum One's Online Community Summit in Sonoma. For me the highlight of the event (though there were many highlights) was a talk given by Owen Barder of AidInfo. He spoke of his vision for a "cloud of aid information".
Frogloop
OCTOBER 18, 2007
Oxfam America won the “Advocacy Campaign” prize for their campaign to persuade Starbucks to let Ethiopia use the trademarked phrase “Ethiopian Coffee” in selling their own coffee.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
SEPTEMBER 3, 2008
million and build 333 wells in Ethiopia. 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.
NTEN
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. [Editor's note: The following is an article from the March 2012 issue of NTEN:Change. Read the rest of the issue when you subscribe to the journal for free! ]
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
FEBRUARY 18, 2009
Scott Harrison, founder of charity: water was enroute to Ethiopia when we discussed Twestival. charity: water have invited Amanda to visit Ethiopia with them at the start of April (costs paid by private donors, not fundraising).
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
NOVEMBER 25, 2008
Virginia DeBolt pointed me to this very inspiring story about a third grader in Albuquerque who raised $6000 to build a library in Ethiopia. When I was a kid, Lucy the Elephant , was in a state of disrepair.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
NOVEMBER 30, 2008
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. Last August, I saw the impact of Twitter's velocity first-hand with a fundraising experiment.
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.
NTEN
JULY 18, 2013
Went to Ethiopia with Charity:Water to understand water issues and what NGOs are doing. Throughout the day, we''ll be live blogging sessions from MCON13 , a virtual conference to help leaders engage the Millennial generation. Here are my notes from the second session, a talk by Mike Del Ponte with a brief Q&A at the end. Find Mike Del Ponte at @mikedelponte on Twitter. Mike is the co-founder of Soma: drinksoma.com. He also founded the nonprofit Sparkseed.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
NOVEMBER 25, 2007
Save the Children has just launched an inspiring and informative catalog that lets you and your child explore a map of the world and imagine how simple gifts, vitamins for infants, library books for kids in rural America, or an apple tree in Ethiopia are extraordinary resources.
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