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October Community Builder Chat – Connecting On and Offline Communities #commbuild

Amy Sample Ward

You can look at #sfaddis to see what they did recently from Addis Ababa in Ethiopia. Tags: Monthly Chats 4change commbuild community community building monthly chat. TechSoup Global has an upcoming Digital Story Telling contest, getting orgs to put together 60 second vid’s about what they do/who they are.

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

Have Fun - Do Good

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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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. Tags: fundraising causes case studies online giving online fundraising facebook birthday.

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TechSoup joins the #ALSIceBucketChallenge

Tech Soup

However, the backlash to it is gaining momentum and it's being tagged as slactivism. 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. Although as of this writing, the accidental campaign raised 31.5

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The Networked NGO in India

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This is important because there is so much to learn and it can get overwhelming. I do a variation of ”speed dating,” each person creates a name tag with a first name and last name the name of a platform or tool they know about or have questions about. I improvised and had participants pass around a flower.

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More Groovy Service Acts at Service Nation Summit: Senator Chris Dodd's Semester of Service and Encore Service Act

Have Fun - Do Good

Senator Paul Tsongas, who served in Ethiopia, was the second. Tags: servicenation. 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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Twitter’s Claire Williams Shares Why Literacy Is Her Cause

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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). Tags: CSR Promotions.