AFP Blog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

Aid groups using cellphones to reach the world's poor: "The Grameen Foundation, a Washington-based group known for helping women with the smallest of business loans, has two dozen people in a technology lab here developing mobile Internet applications to help spread its microfinance model.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2012

I modeled a lot of different methods for doing “digital documentation” using a digital camera, a flip camera, PPT, and word documents – that could be loaded on a USB stick for participants to take away with them as well as a private wiki once we had Internet access.

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

According to Heeks, the field of ICT4D emerged really as an artifact of the telecenter model which was used successfully to extend basic ICT services at the periphery in North America and Europe. . User fees -- necessary if you ever wished to achieve sustainability -- were always a struggle, as they often shut the desired audience out.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2013

charity: water explains clearly on their homepage the three things that make them different from other nonprofits: their 100% model, their emphasis on proving where donations go with GPS tracking and their collaborations with local partners in the countries to which they bring clean water.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 12, 2006

Last night I went to my first giving circle using the Dining for Women model, and it was pretty inspiring. They offer $100-$150 start-up grants to businesses in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania. Here's how VEF works.

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See3

NOVEMBER 12, 2007

The New York organization last year collected more than 60 hours of footage of the organization’s workers and volunteers helping AIDS patients in Uganda, tsunami victims in India, and poor residents of El Salvador, and it soon plans to use that extra footage for an extensive online video campaign. But the Internet has changed all that.

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See3

NOVEMBER 12, 2007

The New York organization last year collected more than 60 hours of footage of the organization’s workers and volunteers helping AIDS patients in Uganda, tsunami victims in India, and poor residents of El Salvador, and it soon plans to use that extra footage for an extensive online video campaign. But the Internet has changed all that.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 19, 2009

FORGE uses a collaborative, rather than top-down model, to serve refugees' needs, and much has been written in the blogosphere and media about Erickson's "radical transparency" around the organization's financial challenges. The model that FORGE takes is really a long-term impact framework. It's the same thing in a development context.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Last month [August], we featured BeadforLife , which is an organization that sells paper beads made by women in Uganda. All that money goes back to support the beaders in Uganda. We had a group that went to Kenya to visit BOMA Fund , and we went to Uganda to visit the BeadforLife program. Actually, they're jewelry (e.g.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 10, 2006

She has worked in rural Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda with the Village Enterprise Fund, and Project Baobab on impact evaluation and program development. Jane--the person that you funded, Jane the goat herder in Uganda--is starting her business." There have been borrowers who have not been model citizens. So it's very personal.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 14, 2007

They each transformed their personal pain to create change for the greater good. If you order In Search of Hope on Glamour.com , Glamour will donate 100 percent of the book's proceeds and royalties to charities (listed below) selected by the women who were profiled.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 4, 2010

Solame was just an absolute, silent and powerful woman leader who, as it turned out, had been involved in fighting for freedom in her home country, Uganda, and was one of two women that was present for the rewriting of the Ugandan constitution. We are looking to model the solutions at every level of the work. Her name is Solame.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 29, 2009

It seemed to be a really good and sustainable model, and we raised around $300,000 doing that kind of work. The other thing that Off the Mat, Into the World does is that we create and model our own outreach projects, but on a grander scale. I have two children and it's a joy to have watched them grow and thrive over the years.

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