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Book Giveaway: Mazarine Treyz, The Wild Woman’s Guide to Fundraising

Amy Sample Ward

All fired up from my time in Indonesia, I thought, “Changing the world is so exciting! Simply leave a comment here sharing your biggest hurdle or burning question. But what I found was that the books for getting started in making a difference with your writing were just DULL. Why do these fundraising books have to be so BORING?”

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5 Ways To Expand Financial Inclusion For The World’s Poor

Global Giving

BitPesa, Banqu, and UCash are scaling similar concepts in Kenya, Indonesia, and India. Microfinance institutions like Muhammad Yunus’ Grameen Bank are asking the question, “Why can these people not be served by banks?” Biometric data to enable government benefit transfers. 1,171,000,000.

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Unlocking Data for Philanthropy: Notes from Global Philanthropy Forum Session

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Jacob Harold, Guidestar , shared some thoughts to this question, “What are the basic building blocks to facilitate better access to data?” They recently launched lab in Indonesia and started to hear through social media chatter that vaccine serum had meat and that people should not get vaccines.

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#4Change Chat Wrap-Up: Community Building

Amy Sample Ward

Successful and Unsuccessful Examples: From @davidahood: Greenpeace internationally had great success recently with the Nestle campaign getting Nestle to end deforestation in Indonesia for palm oil. From @pelleaardema: we’ve tried to set up a twitter chat to answer concrete questions from local communities in a short timespan.

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Big Vision Podcast: Interview with llyse Hogue Rainforest Action Network

Have Fun - Do Good

Ilyse Hogue: I enjoy, wow, that's a great question. Ilyse Hogue: One of my favorite success stories--wow, that's a great question, there are so many. Britt Bravo: What do you enjoy the most about your work? Britt Bravo: What is one of your favorite success stories?

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Solutionary Women: Alli Chagi-Starr, Ilyse Hogue, Melinda Kramer and Reem Rahim

Have Fun - Do Good

So they'll each tell you a little about that, and we'll have time for questions and answers at the end. When I did a little digging, I realized that aside from threatening our water supply in Austin, Texas, they had sufficiently done that in Indonesia, and the Philippines and pretty much all over the world.

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