Amy Sample Ward

MAY 19, 2011

Over the past few weeks, we received over 250 applications from bloggers around the world – from California to Kenya, and from Mexico to Iraq. " What We Lose if We Lose Data.gov | Freedom to Tinker – "In its latest 2011 budget proposal, Congress makes deep cuts to the Electronic Government Fund.

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Web Kenya Iraq Proposal 105

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 30, 2010

In the morning, I attended a session put on by the Young Global Leaders with six interesting proposals. My mentee, Musa, talked about his efforts to help communities in Iraq, including getting blind schools what they needed in terms of equipment (something I’m planning on helping him with), and ended with a rap.

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South Africa Bangladesh Norway Africa 165

Get Fully Funded

APRIL 12, 2010

She told us about her husband’s injuries from a roadside bomb in Iraq. We can worry about the event last week that didn’t go well or the sponsorship proposal that got turned down. Lee Woodruff spoke yesterday afternoon here at the AFP Conference. She had some good points and some poignant moments, but one stuck with me.

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Iraq Proposal Newsletter Grant 40

Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 2, 2008

Each year we receive over 3,500 proposals from women's organizations all around the world. If you compare that to the budgets that we spend in just one day on fighting a war in Iraq, or the cost of an F16 fighter jet, you get some sense of how inordinately skewed those are.

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