Candid

MAY 23, 2023

She and my great-grandfather worked as sharecroppers while raising eight children. Panelists from Brazil, Kenya, and Jamaica discussed the importance of empowering communities in the African diaspora. I shared about my great-grandmother, “Lil Mama,” who was born in Louisiana 30 years after the end of slavery and lived until 108.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 25, 2008

we get to hear the story of a cell phone banking service that gives the poor effective banking services in Kenya when the country's banks have declined to serve them. And, Kenya is not the only country to discover this opportunity. Don't bark at us. The sly person is in trouble when the fool gets smart.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 4, 2011

When a girl receives an education, she stays healthy, HIV negative, marries when she chooses, and raises a healthy family. From October 4-11, Tara is asking bloggers to raise awareness about The Girl Effect by writing about it on their blogs. Connect with Kenya through CD Baby and Source Consulting Group. Share Tweet.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 3, 2011

She's known for the Pop-Up General Store , Tartine Afterhours dinners , Home Ec Cooking Classes , and the nationwide Bakesale for Japan that raised $140,000. You can connect with Kenya through CD Baby, Source Consulting Group , and Facebook.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

Note from Beth: On my way to Kenya for the Ushahidi Board meeting , so enjoy this post by Manny Hernandez. Note from Beth: On my way to Kenya for the Ushahidi Board meeting, so enjoy this post by Manny Hernandez.

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Global Giving

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Raising money for personal causes, and medical fundraising, in particular, is having a moment in places like India with crowdfunding websites like GlobalGiving’s partner, Impact Guru. BitPesa, Banqu, and UCash are scaling similar concepts in Kenya, Indonesia, and India. Crowdfunding to unlock empathy and investment capital.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 2, 2011

The run, set to begin today, October 2, is a 250-kilometer journey through the Sahara Desert ending at the Pyramids of Giza for the purpose of raising money for South African nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). TechSoup's partner in South Africa SANGONeT , that like TechSoup was founded in 1987, organized the No Pain No Gain fundraiser.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Since I’m enroute to Kenya, I invited Jeff Achen to share his thoughts. This incredible online fund raising event raised more than $14 million last year, and we’re hoping to raise the bar higher this year by engaging more than 40,000 donors to donate to any of Minnesota’s more than 26,000 nonprofits using GiveMN.org.

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Whole Whale

APRIL 11, 2023

In 2022, it was reported by Time Magazine and other sources ( Open AI Used Kenyan Workers, Jan 2023 ) that OpenAI used outsourcing firm Sama, a b-corp firm that hires workers in places like Kenya. The net pay for removing violent and disturbing content from the training set was reported to be $2 per hour. per hour.

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Achieve

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Making your volunteers feel supported and valued while they fundraise will help them raise more money and create a positive experience. . He had a nomadic childhood, following his father’s foreign service career, living in India and Kenya and visiting many other places.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2014

This nonprofit social arm of the juggernaut game developer has helped to raise more than $7 million for charities through FarmVille 24 million users alone. In Philanthropy. Zynga.org ( [link] ) was created with the mission to use games to help those in need. Around Gender.

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Global Giving

AUGUST 21, 2018

KizunaCranes.com was an engaging site designed to raise funds for the Japan earthquake relief efforts. Featured Photo: Bridging the technology gap in Denver and Kenya by Technology Partnership. API For Disaster Response. Q: Those examples are so exciting! My cousin works for an interior design boutique and her team wants to give back.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

The event takes a television concept from the 1960's, the Jerry Lewis MDA Telethons , which does non-stop celebrity performances and pitching to raise money for charity and puts it on Twitter as well as live streaming on ustream.tv. The Water is Life project got underway to help children in Kenya last November. I can relate to that!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

In December, 2006, I launched my first personal online fundraising campaign using my blog to raise money to cover college tuition costs for Leng Sopharath , an orphan from the same orphanage in Cambodia where my daughter spent the first 18 months of her life. Right before Thanksgiving, I was in London on my way back from Kenya.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2009

Last month, the Twitter community came together online and offline in over 180 cities around the world to raise money for charity:water with the highly successful " Twestival " fundraising event which brought in over $250,000. It was launched by Dr. Mani who raised money for heart surgeries for poor kids in India. has been raised.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 14, 2014

Nonprofit Success Story: Ushahidi, a nonprofit headquartered in Kenya, used Kickstarter to launch production of BRCK, a Wi-Fi router and mobile modem built to withstand the elements. If you reach your goal, Indiegogo reimburse 3.75% of funds raised as an additional discount, so that your net Indiegogo platform fee is only 3%.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2008

According to a post on Mothers Fighting for Others blog, undignified underwear the only choice for Kenya???s The sale of used underwear is banned in Kenya, because, the government says, the garments are unhygienic and harmful to its wearers. They hope to raise $1.5 Mothers for Africa is running an underwear donation drive.

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Tech Soup

MAY 9, 2016

Research Triangle, North Carolina: How to Create Digital Stories to Raise Money and More. Raleigh, North Carolina: Storymakers 2016 — How to Create Digital Stories to Raise Money and More. Busia, Kenya: NetSquared Kenya Supporting Encryption and Journalism. Wednesday, May 18. Wednesday, June 8. Wednesday, June 22.

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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. WIPO has allocated some money to this effort, and is expecting to start approaching donors to raise money for the ABC, now that it’s clear what the structure and activities will be.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 29, 2017

One of TechSoup's less-known areas of work has been to support and promote the work of other tech-for-good organizations, like Ushahidi in Kenya. Many organizations including the United Nations have used Ushahidi's crowdsourcing tools to raise their voice. These folks do astonishing work. Creative Digital Inclusion Work.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Nonprofit Success Story: Ushahidi, a nonprofit headquartered in Kenya, used Kickstarter to launch production of BRCK, a Wi-Fi router and mobile modem built to withstand the elements. If you reach your goal, Indiegogo reimburse 3.75% of funds raised as an additional discount, so that your net Indiegogo platform fee is only 3%.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 9, 2011

Many of these tools use crowdsourcing techniques, which engages large groups of people via the Internet to do important tasks like raise money, collect information on needs in a stricken area and get them out to first responders, translate information in to several languages, or map the crisis in useful ways.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 20, 2008

Today, June 20th, is World Refugee Day , a day to raise awareness about refugees' rights, and to honor their experiences. The United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNCHR) has a number of ways that you can get involved: * Donate to UNCHR ($80 provides 20 wool blankets) * Raise money with the Give Refugees a Hand Facebook application.

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Tech Soup

MAY 26, 2011

Here are just a few of the many examples of how the humble mobile is being used for development: For those nonprofits working on agricultural issues - The Kenya Agricultural Commodity Exchange (Kace) , provides crop growers with the very latest commodity information via SMS and has helped farmers to quadruple earnings.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Jumo has been raising $2 million in funding from individuals and foundations. By November 2010, Jumo noted in a New York Times article that they’ve raised $3.5 Argentina, France, India, or Kenya?&# It’s a discovery process that first matches, then helps people build relationships, then let’s people share their resources.”-

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 16, 2006

register people to vote, encourage involvement in elections, raise money for. election monitoring Macedonia and Kenya; among women voters in Saudi Arabia, and. Mobile phones have become a powerful emerging tool for. participation in civil society. Around the world mobile phones are used to. Mobile phones are widespread,???

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Kindful

MARCH 4, 2021

We know this well, as thousands of nonprofits and social good projects have used CauseVox’s digital fundraising platform to raise millions online, especially through virtual fundraising events in the last year. Through this, we’ve seen firsthand what online fundraising ideas nonprofits use to successfully raise money for their cause.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

And obviously, the majority of the funds are raised in the capital campaign. We have our renderings and we need to raise $10 million.” What’s our capacity to raise those funds? But our partners are raising a bunch of money. And so the nonprofit knows how much they need to raise. So there’s a need.

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Tech Soup

MAY 12, 2014

The project is active in Iraq and Kenya. These involve detection and interruption, identifying individuals involved in transmission, and changing social norms of the communities where it occurs. Perhaps most impressively they are working in Syrian civil war.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 26, 2020

That effort was concentrated around raising funds and awareness for the work that our national organization and local clubs are leading. imagine living in a refugee camp in Kenya. As the virus’ impact has moved to a regionally-evolving place, some clubs need resources at different times. “In

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

charity:water has a huge Twitter following of over 1 million fans and supporters and has a great deal of expertise using social media to leverage fundraising and raise awareness of their work. Reeta Roy , president and CEO of the MasterCard Foundation, is sending tweets from her site visit to Uganda and Kenya.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2006

She caught my attention because she founded an organization that works with orphaned and disabled children in Kenya. Having friends in Kenya, she came up with the idea to provide summer schools in Kenya. Organizations in Kenya are carefully vetted. Ali is the Founder of AVIF (ABLe Volunteers International Fund).

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

She then went on to hold several Traveling Postcards workshops both in her own community, and then in Kenya! We must raise $1,000 to keep our classes going for another year. She found that by trusting herself, and making one card with the intention of sharing her innate wisdom, her need to be of value in our society was fulfilled.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 19, 2009

I was in high school, I was 17 and my first trip to Africa was to Kenya with my family, just on a picture safari. It wasn't until I got to Kenya and saw how many kids were just dying to go to school and would do anything that I realized that that's not true all over the world. That's when I think my worldview was originally rocked.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 2, 2016

Inspiring Leaders to Raise Money Joyfully. Busia, Kenya: Netsquared Kenya Joins MLH Hackathon 3 December 2016. Busia, Kenya: NetSquared Kenya Storytelling 2016. Kakamega, Kenya: NetSquared Kenya — Partnership to Fight Online Harassment. Seattle, Washington: Boards on Fire!

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 3, 2006

One: organizing immigrant women, mostly Latinas, who are working as domestic workers cleaning the houses and raising the kids, mostly of rich folks. At the end of the negotiation, the family raised her pay to 14 dollars an hour. In the last couple of years, we've begun two new organizing projects.

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EveryAction

MARCH 16, 2017

Wangari Maathai was a renowned environmental political activist in Kenya. Along with earning her PhD (she is credited as the first woman in East and Central Africa to do so), Maathai taught at the university level, worked in the Kenya government, and founded the Greenbelt Movement. Wangari Maathai.

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