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#1MilliForJadudi: A Crowdfunding Campaign in Kenya to help Cancer Patient

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In 2010, I had an opportunity to do a Networked Nonprofit workshop in Kenya. Zawadi shared her most recent crowdfunding campaign, probably one of the most successful in Kenya, raising over $71,000 in a couple of days, to help a 24 year old brain cancer patient Emmanuel Otieno (pictured above and known as Jadudi) to get surgery in India.

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My Triple Ripple of Kindness: Helping Women in San Jose and Kenya

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I used my $100 check to purchase holiday gifts for Next Door Solutions, an agency here in Silicon Valley that safety for battered women and their children through emergency shelter; multiple points of entry for victims; individuals, system and institutional advocacy; crisis intervention; education for victims and the community. Your turn.

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Rockstar Nairobi Social Entrepreneur

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

She’s an incredible social entrepreneur I just visited with in Nairobi, Kenya. They made a great team: Steve was an enthusiastic salesman/CEO, passionate about building up Kenya through good IT jobs, and Carol ran the team. The doctors in Kenya struggled with a diagnosis. Carol Wanjiku is the CEO of Daproim.

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Why Nonprofits Need to Be Early Explorers of the Metaverse

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Cryptocurrency is currently the financial system of the metaverse. In the future, AR could expand to holograms of ourselves doing everything from going on safari in Kenya to attending a conference. Cryptocurrency. A good example is the IKEA App which allows users to see IKEA furniture virtually in their home before purchasing.

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New Ideas at TED2014

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

His innovation is the PEEK software tool : a low-cost smartphone ophthalmic system that delivers comprehensive eye examinations in the developing world, to those who need it most. He now lives in rural Kenya working on eye care. While English might be very useful in Nairobi, Swahili would be the language needed in rural Kenya.

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Is it a movement or a moment?

Candid

They all have a strong desire to mobilize public interest and advocate for systemic change. Photo credit: Peter Caton, Action Against Hunger , Kenya The post Is it a movement or a moment? The champions transform local attitudes and behaviors related to nutrition, help foster collaboration, and engage decision-makers.

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

Global Giving

Since 2007, offerings like M-Pesa , a mobile money transfer service, which began as an initiative from the telecommunications company Vodafone, is a huge opportunity for those living in primarily cash-based societies like Kenya and Tanzania. BitPesa, Banqu, and UCash are scaling similar concepts in Kenya, Indonesia, and India.

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