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Measurement Takes Center Stage in Bill Gates' 2013 Letter

NTEN

Here is a snippet from Bill Gates: Of course, the work of our foundation is a world away from the making of steam engines. A recent national survey of Ethiopia’s vaccination coverage reported vastly different results from the government’s own estimates. Ethiopia could have ignored this conflict and reported the most favorable data.

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Rwanda and Twitter

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The project is designed and implemented by IIE/Sub-Saharan Office and funded by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation PRH program. I’m headed to Rwanda to participate in a training for the ACE project, a network of African Women’s Leadership organizations in the Sub-Saharan region. Feed a child, feed a nation!

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Social Media, Networking, and African Women’s Leadership Training in Rwanda

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I was honored to be a trainer as part of the launch of the ACE Leaders Project, a program developed by the Institute of International Education Sub-Saharan Regional Office and supported by the Packard Foundation. The project is under the visionary leadership of Cheryl [.]

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Nonprofits in the Autonomous World: Will the Bots Take Over?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

A recent post on the Ford Foundation blog, “ Why you should care about bots if you care about social justice ,” notes automation itself isn’t cutting edge, but the prevalence and sophistication of the how the automated tools interact with users is. Charity:Water created a bot called “ Walk with Yeshi ” as a donor engagement tool.

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Underwear for Africa and Reclaiming A September 11th Birthday

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

So many generous people donated, that I had enough to distribute some t-shirts to the kids at Roteang Orphanage, managed by the Sharing Foundation , including a foo-camp t-shirt donated by Tara Hunt for Pharoth. million and build 333 wells in Ethiopia. Mothers for Africa is running an underwear donation drive. (Hat

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Storymakers 2014 Winners — A Global Success

Tech Soup

Mark Karnes" by Soddo Christian Hospital (Ethiopia). Ken Amstutz, the president of St Luke's Health Care Foundation, shared with us that "this video was produced by Seth Demings, a filmmaker who visited the hospital in March 2014 and felt compelled to edit and tell some stories about what is happening in Soddo.

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Twitter’s Claire Williams Shares Why Literacy Is Her Cause

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Note from Beth: As a supporter of the work that the Sharing Foundation does for children in Cambodia, I’ve seen first hand the value of literacy programs in developing countries. I then went on to lead social innovation at Twitter; she went on to study medicine.