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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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Measurement Wisdom for Nonprofits from Bill Gates

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

3. It’s About Sense-Making, Not Tools. Like Marion Conway, I was struck by this photo of him pointing to data handwritten on the walls = tracking immunization records from a rural health clinic in Ethiopia. A decade ago, there was no official record of a child’s birth or death in rural Ethiopia. … Read More

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Measurement Takes Center Stage in Bill Gates' 2013 Letter

NTEN

To address these demands, we need better measurement tools to determine which approaches work and which do not. 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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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. These monthly chats part of the #4Change network and are open to anyone interested in learning and sharing about building community, on and offline, with the use of social media or other technology tools. Hope to have you join us next time!

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Charity:Water created a bot called “ Walk with Yeshi ” as a donor engagement tool. 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. .

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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. (I’ve

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Clouds of international development information

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Owen is based in Ethiopia; his wife works for an NGO that builds clinics. But again, the potential is enormous, the tools are becoming more feasible every day; these clouds look like they have a lot of good nourishing rain in them. He spoke of his vision for a "cloud of aid information".