AFP Blog

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

How Bitcoin is Used in Combatting Ebola - NPQ - Nonprofit Quarterly : "A group from Ghana has found a way to deploy cash donations more rapidly and more effectively directly to the front lines of the effort to contain Ebola in neighboring Sierra Leone. Bitcoin Against Ebola is a nonprofit founded by Beam, a startup based in Accra, Ghana, which promotes Bitcoin technology as a way for Africans to transfer money cheaply and instantaneously." ''via Blog this

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AFP Blog

JANUARY 23, 2013

So far, boxes have been shipped to organizers in Ecuador, Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya, Uganda, India and Pakistan — and counting Packable philanthropy: Donate a TEDx in a Box : What is a TEDx in a Box, you ask? It’s a suitcase stuffed with everything an economically marginalized community needs to host their very own TEDx event — a projector, an iPod preloaded with subtitled TED Talks, a sound system, camcorders to capture fresh talks, and a how-to guide.

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Robert Weiner

APRIL 8, 2013

My father was a very wealthy cocoa merchant in (Republic of Ghana) , my father was poisoned to death by his business associates on one of their outings on a business trip to England. Before the death of my father in a private hospital here in GHANA he secretly called me on his sick bed side and told me that he has the sum of four million five hundred thousand United State Dollars.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 12, 2011

As I mentioned in my previous two blogs about my Africa trip of last July, I had the pleasure of meeting many interesting people and learning about numerous exciting, cool projects during that three week long visit to Kenya, Tanzania and Ghana. In Ghana, I greatly enjoyed meeting Peter Ackland, CEO of the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 22, 2006

Ghana game. Don't tell anyone, but I'm rooting for Ghana. World Cup GhanaIt is 7:49 AM in California right now, and there are 7 people in our living room watching the US v. We even made "bleachers"--a long cupboard that you can sit on behind the couch so more people could watch.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 21, 2011

International in Ghana was the 50,000th! It took 2 years, 10 months, and 50,000 clicks of a mouse, but yesterday @ NonprofitOrgs followed its 50,000th nonprofit on Twitter!

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 15, 2011

I've just ended an exciting three week long Africa trip to Kenya, Tanzania and Ghana. There are so many exciting people and organizations to talk about! One of my very first meetings in Nairobi, Kenya, was with John Kipchumbah (Kipp) and Philip Thigo of the Innovation Program of the Social Development Network. I dropped in on them because Kipp had been trained on our Martus human rights software years ago and had been helping human rights groups in the region with using Martus.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2009

My twitter friend , Joey Leslie , and I traded some back and forth tweets about Chase Bank and Pepsi 's Crowdsourcing for Social Good efforts.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 7, 2013

Revenues from developed countries such as the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and Denmark, where subscription fees are comparable to those in the United States, help us underwrite the cost of memberships in developing world countries such as India, Ghana, Kenya and Nigeria.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 13, 2016

People who start novel organizations like Ashesi University in Ghana, Technology Access Foundation in Seattle, and Shanti Bhavan (a boarding school) in India. I just finished reading Kentaro Toyama’s new book, Geek Heresy, tackling the cult of technology as a cure-all for society’s ills. He’s a geek (former Microsoft Research guy) who is making the case that technology doesn’t make the kind of social impact it claims to deliver.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2007

My colleague, Joitske Hulsebosch, who is based in the Netherlands and most recently working in Ghana, developed a 12-step vlogging process to help a network in Ghana (GINKS) produce an ICT4D stories blog.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

Developing countries like Kenya and Ghana, which are starting to make good progress on these efforts, aren’t in the LDC category. One of the reasons I started the Beneblog more than ten years ago (!) was to keep the Benetech team in the loop.

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Tech Soup Blog

JULY 21, 2015

It has already created a mobile app that is providing free Internet access in Ghana and India.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2010

Statement of Benetech to the 20th Session of the Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights at the World Intellectual Property Organization June 23, 2010, Geneva, Switzerland • My nonprofit organization, Benetech, operates Bookshare, the largest online library for people with print disabilities, with the mission of bringing accessible books to all people with print disabilities around the world • We have roughly 100,000 members in the U.S.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 22, 2016

IDP’s pilot program in Ghana started with initial enrollment of 27,000 children and now is expected to reach a total of 150,000 children by July 2017.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2006

The photo above is from Ghana OneWorld U.S. h as a blog and it has a nonprofit nook. T he main purpose of the blog, according to the "about" page, is: The purpose of the OneWorld U.S. blog is to facilitate networking, collaboration & the sharing of information and ideas about global and local issues. It looks a blog community that is just getting started. There is an interesting article by Roshani Kothari on photo tips and tricks who is a wonderful photographer.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 8, 2011

I have danced with an entire village in Ghana. Dancing in Ghana Just writing this post has broken my heart open and I feel the familiar ache. The sixth guest blogger in my Have Fun, Do Good series is Desiree Adaway. Desiree is a consultant, strategist, coach, storyteller and explorer.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 23, 2011

We leave that to China, Ghana, and other countries. This is an issue I’ve been struggling with for a long time. I’m an unrepentant, unabashed technophile. OK, well, not so unrepentant or unabashed since I’m writing this post on the varied factors around technology and the environment, and have been thinking about this issue for myself for a long time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2007

She is going to Ghana in November. She is using her blog to raise money to support the first Community Access television station in Ghana, Coastal Television in Cape Coast Ghana.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

It was the third Africa Forum I’ve attended: I went to Accra, Ghana, in 2011 and South Africa in 2004. Like many other leaders of nonprofit organizations, I travel an unreasonable fraction of the time. I recently hit three million lifetime miles on American Airlines.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 18, 2009

Possible destinations this year are Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Liberia and/or Ghana. In today's Sunday New York Times article , Win a Trip You Won't Forget , two-time Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Nicholas Kristof , writes, "[I]f you want to save the world, you first must understand it."

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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.

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Mobile Commons

MAY 20, 2016

Using Text Messages to Improve Reproductive Health In Ghana – Interactivity and two-way communication is key. This NYC Startup Just Raised to Send You THIS Text Message Everyday – it’s our awesome customer ShineText again, making headlines!

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Tech Soup Blog

APRIL 26, 2016

GHANA. Since our last storytelling Twitter chat , both the opportunities and challenges in producing a great digital story have increased. Tools are easier than ever to get and learn how to use, which has driven the rise of citizen journalism.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 9, 2006

Example: UNICEF Digital Diaries: Berenice's Story from Ghana, Part I. A young woman in Ghana was giving recording equipment to document her daily life in this 6-part series. My March post, 10 Ways Nonprofits Can Use Blogs , seems to have been helpful to folks (it even got translated into spanish by a blogger in Spain, so I thought I'd share my list, originally posted on NetSquared , of 7 Ways Nonprofits Can Use Podcasts.

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John Haydon

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

This way, a donor who consistently supports the organization in Ghana can subscribe to updates from that UNICEF spokesperson.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 6, 2009

The Liberian TRC was also the first to collect statements from members of the diaspora community – in this case Liberians living in Ghana, Nigeria, the United States and Europe.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2007

A Few Self-Financed Learning Journeys Sam Mayfield has launched a new blog called Sam Land to raise money for and document his trip to Ghana in November. He will be bringing equipment and provide skills training to the first Community Access television station in Ghana.

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Influence

MAY 4, 2009

The theme for this session is "Lessons Learned in Strengthening Health Systems for Tuberculosis Control in Developing Countries" HSAN Member Daniel Osei of the Ghana Health Service will serve as the resource person to respond to your questions relating to the over-all topic. The 5th Health Systems Action Network ( HSAN ) Ask the Expert (ATE) Session starts today, May 4th, and runs up to Friday, May 8th, 2009, on GHDonline's TB Infection Control community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2008

You can purchase a gift or card that provides AIDS grants in Ghana, Rwanda, and Swaziland. Congenital Heart Defects Awareness Day.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 12, 2006

In Ghana people are interested in knowing about new tools, because they need to stay in touch with what???s An offline newsletter or meeting is very important in Ghana for instance for reaching people as they don???t in Ghana here and a story about the use of a wiki in Zambia by my colleague Saskia here.

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Tech Soup Blog

JANUARY 31, 2012

She is an experienced Director, Producer, Researcher, Screenwriter and Social Media Marketing Strategist with field and studio experience on large- and small-scale productions in the United States, England, Ghana, Thailand and Laos.

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NTEN

MAY 1, 2013

Countries represented: 13 (US, Canada, UK, Korea, Australia, Switzerland, Netherlands, Poland, Belgium, Ireland, Nepal, Mexico, and Ghana). Whew, what an NTC! Now that we''ve had a chance to catch a cat (dog?)

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NTEN

MAY 7, 2013

Countries represented: 13 (US, Canada, UK, Korea, Australia, Switzerland, Netherlands, Poland, Belgium, Ireland, Nepal, Mexico, and Ghana). Whew, what an NTC! Now that we''ve had a chance to catch a cat (dog?)

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

Freedom Fone in Tanzania and Ghana. Freedom Fone was introduced at two radio stations: Radio Maria in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and Volta Star radio in the Volta region of Ghana. Making radio more accessible in Ghana. Where Radio Maria collected and re-broadcasted incoming voice content, Volta Star in Ghana focused on improving access to radio segments by posting outgoing content. Melissa Ulbricht, MobileActive.org.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 4, 2010

When I sat down to talk with the co-Directors, Melinda Kramer and Amira Diamond, in early March, they had literally just returned from the West African Woman and Water Training in Ghana. You both just came back from the 2010 West African Women and Water Training in Ghana.

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Tech Soup Blog

JANUARY 20, 2012

She is an experienced Director, Producer, Researcher, Screenwriter and Social Media Marketing Strategist with field and studio experience on large- and small-scale productions in the United States, England, Ghana, Thailand and Laos.

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Tech Soup Blog

DECEMBER 19, 2011

In Ghana, SAP is using their technology and volunteers in partnership with a leading NGO to help women create thriving businesses through the harvesting of shea nuts. SAP is helping to make a difference in the nonprofit and library community through their donation program here at TechSoup.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2009

Others examples include loans to schools in India and capital for small manufacturers in Ghana. Photo by Stephanie McAuliffe. Note from Beth: This guest post is part 2 of coverage of SoCap 09. . It is nice to arrive on scene where 800 people in modest surroundings are energetically pursuing questions that have to be answered to build a movement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

GINKs is a knowledge network promoting the use of ICTs in development in Ghana. Ranger Rick, the persona of the National Wildlife Federation , has been banished from Facebook! They need your help to bring back Ranger Rick's profile that was recently taken down by Facebook Staff.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 1, 2007

When I got home, I remembered the work of colleague Joitske Hulsebosch who has taught video blogging in Ghana. Photo 1. Photo 2. I'm going to the Cambodian Blogger Summit in a few weeks. One of the ideas I've been exploring is the whole notion of video blogging from Cambodia by Cambodians.

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Influence

MAY 20, 2009

Do these same sites appear the same to those in Ghana? The Society for International Development has done it again! Earlier this month, I attended their tremendous annual conference with notable and unforgettable speakers that make you leave the glimmering chandeliers in DC's Omni Shoreham ballroom thinking to yourself, what more needs to be done in international development? How can the end goals be achieved?

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 28, 2007

"[T]hose of us who take pictures, even for our own personal trips, and share those pictures with friends, because we have that skill, also have an obligation to help people understand each other more completely.

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