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Rwanda and Twitter

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I’m headed to Rwanda to participate in a training for the ACE project, a network of African Women’s Leadership organizations in the Sub-Saharan region. The first of the Rwandan Twitter “peeps” that I discovered was the President of Rwanda – Paul Kagame who is very active on Twitter.

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Announcing Our Second Impact Labs Cohort on Zero Hunger: Supporting Small-Scale Farmers Globally

Saleforce Nonprofit

He has been on field missions to co-create solutions with governments and implementing partners in Zambia, Mozambique, Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, Nigeria, and Bangladesh. Today, she uses her consulting skills and ethnographic experience to help clients on their sustainability journeys. Dun-Ying Vicki Yu. Senior Consultant, Slalom.

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Improve Your Fundraising Approach and Skills at NetSquared Meetups

Tech Soup

Seattle, Washington: What You Need to Know About Board Governance. Left photo : Gregory Munyaneza / NetSquared Rwanda / CC BY. Thursday, October 12, 2017. Chicago, Illinois: It's Never Too Late: How Your CRM Can Save End-of-Year Fundraising. Saturday, October 14, 2017. Monday, October 16, 2017. Tuesday, October 31, 2017.

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Some Reflections About Civil Society 2.0 and Why I’m Not On A Plane To Tunisia Right Now

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Many of you know that I have had the honor of working with IIE on some amazing Networked NGO and social media skills capacity building and train the trainer projects in the Middle East over the last 2-3 years. But, not just skills training, but learning to understand the impact of connected society and transformation.

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Empowering Women Citizen Journalists: An Interview with Cristi Hegranes

Have Fun - Do Good

So often, government control, or just lack of access to information and media, prevents people from really being able to be educated and informed about serious issues that are going on around them. Hopefully, the situation in the Congo resolves itself and doesn't cross the border into Rwanda, as it did in the '90s. CH: Yes, we do.

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Women of Color Resource Center: An Interview with Anisha Desai

Have Fun - Do Good

I think it is a really interesting time because we have a young staff, and a staff that is very enthusiastic about taking on their own leadership roles, doing more writing, getting more politically involved, and developing their own skills of management and leadership within the organization. It is like a dream come true.

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Interview with Zainab Salbi, Founder of Women for Women International

Have Fun - Do Good

She also goes through a vocational skills and business skills training track, where it ends up giving her tangible skills, so she can get a job. We work in countries like Congo, Rwanda, Sudan, Iraq, Afghanistan, Bosnia, Kosovo, among others. Our country director in Rwanda was a refugee all her life.