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I Love My Hair: Have Fun, Do Good Friday Video

Have Fun - Do Good

This week's Have Fun, Do Good Friday Video is the I Love My Hair song from Sesame Street. You can see more Have Fun, Do Good Friday videos here. Tags: Have fun do good friday video. Yay to Sesame Street for creating this empowering message for girls.

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Good News! Starbucks Signed an Agreement with Ethiopia

Have Fun - Do Good

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. ethiopia starbucks oxfam starbucks holdthehormones Guess what?

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My Birthday Cause: Free Geek!

Amy Sample Ward

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. No birthday party meant no one buying presents.

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. . The testing was fun and it also helped me figure out how to script the close-end conversation that happens when you “Wake Up the Beth Bot.” I pulled together a curated list.ly

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The Networked NGO in India

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Moving gets blood to the brain, getting blood brain helps people take in new ideas. We also did fun and creative after lunch energizers. On the first day, in honor of being in India, I played a YouTube video of a well-loved Bollywood number called “ Chaya, Chaya.” I wrote about the practice of Team Tweeting here.

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Vote for Your CNN Hero: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Impact

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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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Oxfam Uses Flickr To Advocate for Ethiopian Coffee Famers

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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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