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Philanthropy and Social Media: New Whitepaper from The Institute for Philanthropy

Amy Sample Ward

Earlier this week, I had the terrific opportunity to participate on a panel at the US launch event for “Philanthropy and Social Media”, a whitepaper from The Institute for Philanthropy and The Indigo Trust. Philanthropy has been able to move into the real time web, too. Impacts to Philanthropy.

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Interview: Avi Kaplan, Epic Change for TweetsGiving

Amy Sample Ward

Avi is just back from Tanzania where he and other Epic Change team members were working with the students in the classroom built with last year’s TweetsGiving proceeds. Where do the funds go? We just spent three weeks at Shepherd’s Junior near Arusha, Tanzania setting up a technology lab and wireless internet at the school.

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Interview: Avi Kaplan, Epic Change for TweetsGiving

Amy Sample Ward

Avi is just back from Tanzania where he and other Epic Change team members were working with the students in the classroom built with last year’s TweetsGiving proceeds. Where do the funds go? We just spent three weeks at Shepherd’s Junior near Arusha, Tanzania setting up a technology lab and wireless internet at the school.

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Philanthropy and Sustainable Development: Our Role as Interlocutors for Good

Connection Cafe

This is how Natalia Kanem , Assistant Secretary-General and Deputy Executive Director of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) , ended her keynote presentation for the MicroEdge Day at bbcon. She reminded us that, ultimately fulfilling these ambitions is part of what philanthropy has stood for all along.

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Guest Post on Tactical Philanthropy: Causes, MySpace and ideablob

Amy Sample Ward

Sean Stannard-Stockton has just posted my guest post on the Tactical Philanthropy blog. Communities on both platforms were clearly not part of the development and communications process, yet they were actively using the platform (for example, a grant from ideablob helped Epic Change implement a technology lab in a school in Tanzania ).

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A Review of the Guardian ACTIVATE Summit in London

Tech Soup

” Jeremy Heimans, Purpose, Australia, while he argued that micro payments are a better funding model than plain charity, for social change. Storify has published a summary of tweets from the conference , if you are interested in knowing more of what people said. On the core. themes of the conference, many examples of successful social.

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Mapping funding for racial justice: A political imperative

Candid

Since 2010, Human Rights Funders Network (HRFN) and Candid have partnered on research that maps funding for human rights globally. Over this time, we have had a glaring omission: our research has not captured funding related to race or ethnicity, despite significant and global human rights work in this area. Even in the U.S.,

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