article thumbnail

Nonprofits Who are Making A Difference Through Play

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Through projects like the Games and Learning Publishing Council and the National STEM Video Game Challenge ( [link] ), the Cooney Center explores the power of games to advance learning and engage vulnerable students. Another nonprofit furthering research behind games and learning is the Joan Ganz Cooney Center. Around Gender.

article thumbnail

Networked Nonprofit Update: November

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Despite a broken toe, I facilitated a workshop on Social Media for CEOs of nonprofits and foundation. James Leventhal facilitated a workshop in Portland last month along with Adam Rozan of the Oakland Museum of California and Stephanie Weaver of Experienceology. The Networked Nonprofit Nairobi Kenya on November 18th.

Network 95
professionals

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Results of the African E-Waste and Refurbishment Standards Conference

Tech Soup

The event's purpose was to join industry and government in putting into action some of the precepts developed at the 2012 United Nation’s Pan-African Forum on E-Waste in Nairobi, Kenya. In the long term, standards will be key to stimulating the economic development of the recycling industry in Africa.

article thumbnail

Data Digest: Open Data for Africa Platform, Silent Data Revolution in MENA and Data Strategies

Tech Soup

It is part of the AfDB’s ‘ Africa Information Highway ’ initiative, which enabled the introduction of live data links between the AfDB, National Statistical Offices, Central Banks and relevant ministries in all 54 countries. Is Open Data Just A Flash in the Pan Movement?

article thumbnail

Book Review - Unbowed by Wangari Maathai

Have Fun - Do Good

The beginning of the book is peaceful and slow-moving, a description of an African girl growing up on a farm in Kenya, but education changes everything. It was at that time that she started the Green Belt Movement , which facilitated women planting trees in their communities to combat deforestation, soil erosion and lack of water.

Review 43
article thumbnail

A First Look at Jumo

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

“We saw on the Obama campaign you’ve got to combine content and technology to facilitate action. Argentina, France, India, or Kenya?&# National Wildlife Federation , for example, is very active on various social networking websites and they immediately appeared in several places on my Jumo page. So What and Who Cares.

New York 104
article thumbnail

Empowering Refugees: Interview with Kjerstin Erickson of FORGE

Have Fun - Do Good

Erickson founded FORGE (Facilitating Opportunities for Refugee Growth and Empowerment) in 2003 when she was a 20 year-old junior studying public policy at Stanford University. FORGE serves 60,000 refugees in three different refugee camps in Southern Africa, and is an official operating partner of the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR ).