Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

Note from Beth: On my way to Kenya for the Ushahidi Board meeting , so enjoy this post by Manny Hernandez. But, with the funding from a sponsor (Roche), with the advise and help of David Edelman from DiabetesDaily.com and Riva Greenberg from DiabetesStories.com and the direction of Sean Ross , we produced the best video we could.

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Global Giving

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Since 2007, offerings like M-Pesa , a mobile money transfer service, which began as an initiative from the telecommunications company Vodafone, is a huge opportunity for those living in primarily cash-based societies like Kenya and Tanzania. BitPesa, Banqu, and UCash are scaling similar concepts in Kenya, Indonesia, and India.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Note from Beth: As a supporter of the work that the Sharing Foundation does for children in Cambodia, I’ve seen first hand the value of literacy programs in developing countries. in Kenya with Mary, 10, circa 2006]. On the last stop of that trip, I went to Kenya to climb a mountain.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Before and during her studies, she conducted field research for governmental and non-governmental organizations, as well as foundations, on maternal and child health in Sri Lanka, Ghana, Haiti, Somalia, Uganda, Kenya and India. Connect with Kenya through CD Baby and Source Consulting Group.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Jeffrey Bryan, a veterinary oncologist Emily Jacobi, Digital Democracy Jenny Ramo, New Mexico Appleseed Kavita Ramdas, formerly of Global Fund for Women ( I interviewed Kavita in April 2008 ) Kenya Masala, Source Consulting Group, (he's the musician behind the Big Vision Podcast's intro and outro music).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2014

A study ( [link] ) funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and MacArthur Foundation has found “when digital games were compared to other instruction conditions without digital games, there was a moderate to strong effect in favor of digital games in terms of broad cognitive competencies.”. Around Gender.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Since I’m enroute to Kenya, I invited Jeff Achen to share his thoughts. This incredible online fund raising event raised more than $14 million last year, and we’re hoping to raise the bar higher this year by engaging more than 40,000 donors to donate to any of Minnesota’s more than 26,000 nonprofits using GiveMN.org.

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Global Giving

AUGUST 21, 2018

A: We built our API upon Braintree ’s extensive credit card payment solutions so that you can leverage Braintree’s robust hosted payment architecture while still flowing funds to charitable causes in 160 countries. KizunaCranes.com was an engaging site designed to raise funds for the Japan earthquake relief efforts. API By Theme.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 2, 2011

Through their participation, the runners’ organizations, Endangered Wildlife Trust ; Cancer Association of South Africa (CANSA) ; Starfish Greathearts Foundation ; and SCORE , will also benefit from the funds raised.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 26, 2020

Closures and social distancing measures have wiped out organizations that didn’t have a rainy day fund. In March we launched a dedicated Boys and Girls Clubs COVID-19 relief fund. That effort was concentrated around raising funds and awareness for the work that our national organization and local clubs are leading.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Mary Mwende told us about her journey from Mombasa, Kenya, to being one of ten girls chosen for the Global Give Back Circle , a mentoring and empowerment program. NFTE and four other youth nonprofits will receive new funding from Microsoft to enhance existing youth programs or start new initiatives.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 13, 2015

Being only a small recurring donor to the Clinton Foundation, I was excited to find myself sitting across the desk of the former president at his New York office and hearing firsthand about the impact of the foundation's work in East Africa. I don't think I have been more blown away by a technological advance than this one.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 14, 2014

The Scoop: Perhaps one of the most buzzed about crowdfunding platforms, Kickstarter is a way to fund projects. Kickstarter makes it clear that it isn't for direct charity or cause funding, but about project creation. If a project succeeds, Kickstarter will charge a 5% fee to the funds collected. Kickstarter.

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Tech Soup

MAY 23, 2013

This week the revolutionary data driven philanthropy of the Laura and John Arnold Foundation is featured and a call for beneficiary inclusion in Markets for Good goes out. It originally appeared on NetSquared. Data philanthropy efforts are reviewed and advice for writing about data is offered. Why Markets for Good may go wrong.

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Tech Soup

MAY 12, 2014

The project is active in Iraq and Kenya. This involves things like how to manage investment funds that include purification processes for dealing with interest payments on loans in places that find common banking practices against Sharia law. TechSoup Resources for Foundations. Additional Resources.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

The Scoop: Perhaps one of the most buzzed about crowdfunding platforms, Kickstarter is a way to fund projects. Kickstarter makes it clear that it isn't for direct charity or cause funding, but about project creation. If a project succeeds, Kickstarter will charge a 5% fee to the funds collected. Kickstarter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

The organizations are a combination of smaller, progressive organizations like Ushahidi and the Sunlight Foundation and large venerable institutions like NPR and the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Jumo has been raising $2 million in funding from individuals and foundations. Argentina, France, India, or Kenya?&#

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

And obviously, the majority of the funds are raised in the capital campaign. What’s our capacity to raise those funds? We have a vision to build a sickle cell-centric hospital in Western Kenya.” Brian: You know, adding that to your annual fund is key. That may be the state of the union for them.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 31, 2006

I didn't want to jinx it, so I didn't mention it in my book review of Wangari Maathai's memoir, Unbowed , but I finished the book last week because on Friday my husband and I flew to Los Angeles to hear Maathai speak at a fundraiser organized by the African Millennium Foundation.

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EveryAction

MARCH 16, 2017

Organizations like Room to Read , the Poetry Foundation , and Books in Homes USA work to promote literacy and the significance of literary works in our society - support their work today, bookworms! Fund their work! Wangari Maathai was a renowned environmental political activist in Kenya. Do you love ladies in literature?

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

The service has 17 million users and is transforming the way wealth is distributed in poor countries, which now include Tanzania, India, and Afghanistan as well as Kenya. The success of mpesa in combination with the arrival of broadband there has stimulated the billion dollar ‘silicon savanah’ movement in Kenya.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 20, 2008

About three years ago, I watched a fabulous documentary series sponsored by the Skoll Foundation called The New Heroes. For example, in Kenya, only 7% of the population, of the labor force, has a job in the formal private sector. We started off with equipment, for example, in Kenya, for manufacturing low-cost building materials.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Chris Hughes Jumo has been raising $2 million in funding from individuals and foundations. He has also put together a team of advisers including Jeffrey David Sachs , Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University, Jacqueline Novogratz, CEO of the Acumen Fund , and Linda Rottenberg is CEO and Co-founder of Endeavor.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 17, 2014

With initial funding of $2,500, he started the CompuMentor Project to match computer enthusiast volunteers called computer mentors with Bay Area nonprofits that needed the help. In 2009, he became an Ashoka Foundation senior fellow for his work as a leading social entrepreneur. Daniel started TechSoup, then named CompuMentor, in 1987.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 4, 2010

There are resources, information, training, and funding available in plenty. One of the women that stands out is actually someone who participated in our 2008 training, which took place in Kenya. When we look at environmental challenges, we can't avoid the question of women's role within designing the solutions. There are solutions.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 8, 2006

In addition to co-authoring Grub with Bryant Terry, Anna also co-authored Hope's Edge with her mother Frances Moore Lappé and is a co-founder, with her mother, of the Small Planet Fund , and a founding principal of the Small Planet Institute , based in Cambridge Massachusetts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 24, 2012

” Using a webinar and conference call platform, we were able to bring in participants from San Francisco, Rwanda, Kenya, Algeria, Tunisia, and Egypt. Next we heard from Dr. Wanjiru Kamau-Rutenberg is Founder and Executive Director of Akili Dada and based in Kenya. Originally from Kenya, she earned a B.A.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 28, 2007

She is donating 100 percent of the royalties from the book to the Global Fund for Women. PG: I think that the one that comes to mind first is a wonderful picture of women in Kenya who are growing corn. I did only enough of it to continue to fund this new addiction that I had, and also to keep up my frequent flier miles.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 30, 2007

million-member political action committee who works on issues from universal health care to climate change, and energy independence to restoring democracy through getting rid of the torture clause that the Bush administration has written into the government charter, and trying to get public funding for elections. We are a 3.5

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Attended a networking events for social entrepreneurs, such as the one organized by the Schwab Foundation (the organizers of the World Economic Forum in Davos), where we brainstormed about different issues. Met with the UN Foundation about a major grant they are giving us to bring Bookshare to India. And much more… Washington, D.C.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 2, 2008

Kavita Ramdas, President and CEO, Global Fund for Women. Kavita Ramdas is the President and CEO of the nonprofit, the Global Fund for Women. I think it's worth it (: Kavita Ramdas: The Global Fund for Women is the largest independent, publicly supported grant-making foundation to advance women's human rights internationally.

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