Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 28, 2010

You can look at #sfaddis to see what they did recently from Addis Ababa in Ethiopia. Some of the examples and recommendations from this month’s chat included: UN Food&Ag Org (FAO) has done a great job with their Share Fairs – sharing the discussions and training on and offline.

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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.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 29, 2010

According to NPR's story about the song's origins, 'I Love My Hair': A Father's Tribute to His Daughter , Joey Mazzarino wrote the song for his 5-year-old daughter, who he and his wife adopted from Ethiopia, when they noticed, "She wanted to have long blond hair and straight hair, and she wanted to be able to bounce it around."

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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. Save the Children.

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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."

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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. . Charity:Water created a bot called “ Walk with Yeshi ” as a donor engagement tool. I pulled together a curated list.ly of some really well-designed bots from nonprofits and beyond here.

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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. Taking a virtual walk with Yeshi may not help you get your steps in for the day, but it will be fascinating and educational.

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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. Select your Birthday Cause today: Get Started - Learn More.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 7, 2007

For more information about Ethiopia's efforts to trademark its coffee names, check out Green LA Girl's posts about Ethiopia vs. Starbucks. My only criticism of the campaign is that very few of the photos have a Creative Commons license that allows bloggers and other supporters to share the photos and spread the word.

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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."

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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. " This seems interesting considering that "downer news," more specifically disaster imagery, has always driven up donations.

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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. It also raised money for famine relief in Africa.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2008

Owen is based in Ethiopia; his wife works for an NGO that builds clinics. 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".

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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. One of them was charity: water , a non-profit bringing safe, clean drinking water to people in developing nations that had launched a September Birthday campaign. More information here.

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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. During the film Meskela tries to find buyers who will pay a higher price for his farmers' coffee.

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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.

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OCTOBER 28, 2014

Mark Karnes" by Soddo Christian Hospital (Ethiopia). We wanted to create a video that explains how tragic avoidable blindness can be, and we’re delighted to be recognized for our work in the 15-second storytelling category," stated Lynne Dulaney, director of communications at Operation Eyesight.

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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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2008

million and build 333 wells in Ethiopia. (Hat tip Brett Meyer at NTEN ) They are asking everyone born in September to give up birthday presents and ask their friends and family for donations to build water weels in Ehtiopia instead. They hope to raise $1.5 More information here.

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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. I improvised and had participants pass around a flower.

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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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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 12, 2008

Senator Paul Tsongas, who served in Ethiopia, was the second. Dodd served in the Peace Corps in the Dominican Republic from 1966 to 1968, and then joined the U.S. Army Reserves for over 6 years. In 1974, he was the first former Peace Corps volunteer to be elected to the Senate.

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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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JULY 5, 2006

Photo credit: Ethiopia 3 by babasteve unifem women social entrepreneur If you want to help, according to the FACED site, a donation of $165 provides, "an Ultimate Sweater Machine, Row Counter, all freight and clearing costs and skills training."

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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. The campaign attracted 96,000 participants, and Starbucks did eventually change their policy, thereby benefiting poor farmers in Ethiopia.

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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).

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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). Amanda shares how she worked closely with the nonprofit, charity:water.

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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. They created the Popcorn For Kids Campaign. Parenting Tips To Encourage Your Child's Philanthropy 1.

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NTEN

JULY 18, 2013

Went to Ethiopia with Charity:Water to understand water issues and what NGOs are doing. A friend walked in; he and Mike wondered, Why don''t they just design something beautiful that''s sustainable and also gives back? Now they are the chair and CEO, respectively, of Soma, "the world''s most innovative water filter."

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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. Social Media Roadblock Campaign launched by Red Cross in September marks an experiment from a large nonprofit institution in using Twitter connected to a fundraising campaign.

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Everyaction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Ethiopia / $50. This event continues and builds on the legacy of the COOL National Conference and the Idealist Campus Conference, spanning an incredible 32+ year history. General / @impactconf. AIDF Africa Summit. AIDF Africa Summit. Feb 21 - 22. Aid & International Development Forum (AIDF) / Addis Ababa, (Int.) Feb 22 - 24.

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Whole Whale

OCTOBER 8, 2021

In the below example, Amnesty International joined other NGOs and diaspora organizations to advocate for humanitarian access to the Tigray region of Ethiopia. The #hashtag is short, descriptive, and includes the ask The tweet targets the person who is most likely to be able to change the situation, Prime Minister of Ethiopia Abiy Ahmed Ali.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 30, 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.

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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. "Time, enthusiasm, expertise, skills.it

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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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 12, 2006

In Ethiopia, she did organizational capacity building work for a local network of NGOs. She notes, "I started in Kenya working with a water users association, living in a thatched hut!" " Later, her work brought her to Mali, where she advised on participatory methods.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Every September we launch the September Campaign , an online grassroots fundraising campaign targeting a specific issue. This year is our 5th anniversary and we’re funding a drilling rig for our partner in Ethiopia that can provide access to clean and safe drinking water to 40,000 people a year. The 2011 September Campaign.

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