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GeekCorps Mali

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

It was my last afternoon in Mali, as I started psychic re-entry process into my normal existence, that I remembered that in real life, hey, I'm a geek. So I dropped by the offices of GeekCorps Mali, which as it turned out was just around the corner from where I was staying at Rebecca and Fode's house in the Quartier Hippodrome.

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Improving Public health in Mali

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

Last month I wrote about my stroll through Sikoro , on the northern outskirts of Bamako, Mali, and the community health project Siguida Keneyali we learned about there. Today my friend Britt Bravo posted an in-depth interview with Caitlin Cohen of Siguida that looks at the project and its community-based orientation in some real detail.

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Monique and the Mango Rains: Two Years with a Midwife in Mali

Have Fun - Do Good

By the third page of Monique and the Mango Rains, you know that Monique, a midwife in Mali, will die in childbirth. midwife mali women Peace Corps friendship -Anne Fadiman, author of The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down about Monique and the Mango Rains. Still, when you read about her death at the book's end, you are surprised.

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How Much Money do People Really Give on Nonprofit Boards? Read BoardAssist’s Annual Report on Nonprofit Giving for all the Answers

BoardAssist

Our work spans tiny nonprofits serving in Mali and Haiti, requiring a minimal financial commitment, to New York-based nonprofit household names that request significant funding from their board members, and everything in between.

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How Much Money do People Really Give on Nonprofit Boards? Read BoardAssist’s Annual Report on Nonprofit Giving for all the Answers

BoardAssist

Our work spans tiny nonprofits serving in Mali and Haiti, requiring a minimal financial commitment, to New York-based nonprofit household names that request significant funding from their board members, and everything in between.

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How Much Money do People Really Give on Nonprofit Boards? Read BoardAssist’s 2018 Annual Report on Nonprofit Giving for all the Answers

BoardAssist

Our work spans tiny nonprofits serving in Mali and Haiti, requiring a minimal financial commitment, to New York-based nonprofit household names that request significant funding from their board members, and everything in between.

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Help the Sigida Keneyali Project Win the International Youth In Volunteerism Challenge

Have Fun - Do Good

It is a project of the start-up NGO, Mali Health Organizing Project. Mali health NGO Last month I posted an e-interview with Caitlin Cohen, the US coordinator and co-founder of the Sigida Keneyali Project , a community-run clinic in Sikoro for 28,000 people.

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Happy Holidays!

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

Using a donated CMS from our good friends at Orchid Suites , and a beautiful design by Erica Trauba, we've built a new website for the folks at the Mali Health Organizing Project, a group that is helping a community in Mali to build its own clinic.

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Sparked, Micro-Volunteering Network, Has Volunteers Standing By For Your Nonprofit’s Next Small Project

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

A logo design for Helen Keller International’s new malnutrition screening campaign in Mali. . • A brainstorm of online video-game concepts for Room to Read’s new children’s book, Zak the Yak with Books on His Back. •

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Why I Believe Technology Can Change the World

NTEN

My wife and I lived at a dusty intersection of two unpaved streets in Kayes, Mali. Just up one of them, a few squat concrete shops sat boarded up – except, every now and then, a crowd would start to gather, eventually filling most of the street. When a truck full of merchandise pulled up, it was a surprise only to us.

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Siguida Keneyali

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

When Doria and I were in Mali earlier this month, we found that our nephew Fodé Camara had started to work with a group called Siguida Keneyali - Health in Our Homes - an organization working to improve health in Sikoroni, the poorest Quartier in Bamako.

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United Nations Sets a New Agenda for Global Philanthropy

Tech Soup Blog

What works in Mali may not work in Myanmar. " She cautions, however, that technology is not one size fits all: "Of critical importance, however, is not just putting enabling technologies in place but putting the most appropriate, locally relevant types of technology in the hands of those who need it.

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(Now's the Time to) Bring the Mobile Web into Your Organization

NTEN

The street corner I lived on in Mali was typically quiet (by African standards, anyway): aside from the woman who sold fried dough stuffed with shredded meat, most people just passed by.

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TechSoup French Partner Leads the Way to Sustainable Tech

Tech Soup Blog

In partnership with Orange France and Emmaus International, Clic Vert has developed electronics recycling and refurbishment workshops in Burkina Faso, Benin, Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Mali, Niger, Madagascar, and Togo to organize the collection and repair of used mobile phones.

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The Blogger Returns

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

Well, for one thing, planning a trip over the holidays to Morocco and Mali. There's so much going on my blogging has just gone by the wayside. Let's get back on track. What have I been up to? I've never been to the African continent before, so you can imagine how excited I am.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Five Hot Conversations!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Resources and Reports Nancy Schwartz of the Getting Attention Blog summarizes an article with tips on for how nonprofit marketing and public relations staff can gain entry into the blogosphere Michael Stein (East Coast) files a report from Mali about the GeekCorps Mali project. A Few Web2.0

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Hold my calls

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

Last weekend I met Canadian filmmaker Sylvain l'Esperance, whose wonderful documentary about life in the Niger Inland Delta region of Mali was showing at the Toronto Hot Docs film festival. To we technologically inclined folks this may seem obvious, but not everyone sees it.

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Summers Over Once Again

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

Over the long weekend I finally managed to get started on a new project I've been excited to get involved with - a new website for the Sigida Keneyali health project in Mali that I blogged about in January.

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What Would Homer Simpson Do? Your Messages and the Emerging Science of Behavioral Economics

NTEN

Any money you donate will go to Rokia, a seven-year-old girl who lives in Mali, Africa. Buy it now. 75% of guests who stay in this hotel reuse their towels. Join them and reuse your towel to help save the environment. The answer? They all use principles of behavioral economics to influence their audience's decisions. And you can too.

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Case Study: An Accidental Techie #FAIL Story

NTEN

She joined the Death with Dignity National Center team after ten years of volunteering and working with local nonprofits, with a two-year break serving as a Health Education volunteer with the Peace Corps in the West African nation of Mali.

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Everything I need to know about web management I learned at a concert

Forum One

I recently was able to spend an amazing evening enjoying one of my new fave artists, Habib Koité and his band Bamada , based in Mali.

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The Digital Divide Doesn't Exist

NTEN

Mohammed Diop, of Mali , presumably one of the very people OLPC wants to convince: "It is a very clever marketing tool. " Who could argue with that? Under the guise of non-profitability hundreds of millions of these laptops will be flogged off to our governments.

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Social Media for Good and Evil, Strong and Weak Ties, Online/Offline,and Orgs and Networks

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In person, I’ve met Clay Shirky himself, Tim Maly , Robin Sloan , and at least 10 more — and I’ve edited dozens of folks that I know exclusively through the service. .&# But the thing about Twitter, at least for me, is that I *end up* meeting the people that I interact with most closely.

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The Math Is Starting to Add Up: The Promise of Mobile

NTEN

At Geekcorps Mali, our approach was: through great engineering feats attempt to somehow lower the costs of access, while hopefully creating sustainable “business models” in the process. The field became fixated on achieving two holy-grails, requisite in every proposal, but nearly always unattainable: sustainability and scalability. .

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Joitske Hulsebosch: Blogs, NGOs, and Developing Countries

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

" Later, her work brought her to Mali, where she advised on participatory methods. " She has worked in Africa as a trainer and later as an organisational advisor. She notes, "I started in Kenya working with a water users association, living in a thatched hut!"

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10 Twitter Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

For example, @OneGreenPlanet recently tweeted a link to a call-to-action page to help Mali the elephant. Had they not included a link, this tweet would have had significantly fewer retweets. Upload properly sized photos and infographics. The ideal image size for uploaded images on Twitter is 525 x 262 pixels.

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How Showing Donors the ROI Will Boost Your Fundraising

NonProfit Hub

One of them featured statistics on the plight of African children and one was a story of Rokia, a seven-year-old from Mali, Africa. In another study, researchers tested two versions of a brochure for the Save the Children charity organization. The story-based version outperformed the infographic version by $2.38

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Some Africa Links

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

SocioLingo's Africa Blog : Written by an Englishwoman living in Mali, this blog's frequent posts - many times a day - cover all of Africa and point out articles and reports on linguistic, cultural, archeological, economic, and political developments on the continent. SocioLingo's Mali Blog. SocioLingo's Mali Blog. AfricaBeat.

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NpTech Tag: People Behind Tags, NpTech Timeline, Twitter, and More Widgets

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Geekcorps Mali works to create and deploy ICT solutions that are sustainable and appropriate for Mali. Second Life Relay for Life for 2007 volunteer blog is gearing up for this year's event, the third one in Second Life. ICT in the Developing World. Check out the articles, blog, and resources.

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