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Good News! Starbucks Signed an Agreement with Ethiopia

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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. The video above is a thank you message from the President of Oxfam and an Ethiopian farmer.

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TechSoup joins the #ALSIceBucketChallenge

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(Please visit the site to view this video). While there has been some high-profile efforts to raise awareness and money, most recently by former football player Steve Gleason and his Team Gleason House , research efforts and awareness have been low compared to the other fatal diseases. It is a debilitating disease with no known cure.

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Vote for Your CNN Hero: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Impact

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I've included part of the nominees' profiles below, as they are written up on the site, but added links to their organizations and projects where I could find them. Today, the Los Angeles nanny funds a school in her native Malawi -- where half a million children have been orphaned by the disease."

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Kids and Philanthropy: Teaching Your Children To Be Charitable

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My kids have posed for photos in t-shirts , emptied their piggy banks , helped me make fundraising videos , contributed clothing or other items to drives at school, and have attended lots of fund raising events. My kids have become more and more interested in playing video games. Parenting Tips To Encourage Your Child's Philanthropy 1.

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My Facebook Birthday Cause: Thank You (and Some Unsolicited Feedback To Causes)

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Not two minutes had passed after I set up my birthday campaign and added it to my profile, I got pinged from Facebook friends asking how they could install it. As friends make a donation, it automically appears in your profile newsfeed. More on this later, my kids just made a wonderful video to promote this.

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Dancefloor and Balcony: What I learned about emergent online collaboration from Eugene Eric Kim

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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. His work was recently profiled in this New York Times piece.

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Joitske Hulsebosch: Blogs, NGOs, and Developing Countries

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In Ethiopia, she did organizational capacity building work for a local network of NGOs. I've also been inspired to experiment with video blog posts and podcasts. My bloglines profile is public so you can see what I'm reading. She notes, "I started in Kenya working with a water users association, living in a thatched hut!"

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