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Announcing Our Second Impact Labs Cohort on Zero Hunger: Supporting Small-Scale Farmers Globally

Saleforce Nonprofit

He has been on field missions to co-create solutions with governments and implementing partners in Zambia, Mozambique, Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, Nigeria, and Bangladesh. She has worked across multiple low and middle-income countries in both policy and research capacities. Dun-Ying Vicki Yu. Senior Consultant, Slalom. Molly Emmett.

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Great reads from around the web on June 29th

Amy Sample Ward

That was the logic Lauren Bush Lauren articulated in a 2013 interview about FEED, a for-profit entity she founded that creates simple, eco-friendly tote bags whose price covers the cost of donating school meals to children in Rwanda via the UN World Food Program” What Solutions Are Hiding In Our PDFS? :

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Need Answers: LinkedIn Has Them

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Note from Beth: I’m just finishing up an intensive training here in Rwanda. You get a variety of opinions, options to weigh, and ways to proceed (policy about funders anyone?) What is your organization’s policy about the source of funding? as well as being able to show who you are by voicing your own opinion.

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Do What You Can: National Week of Action for Darfur April 6-13

Have Fun - Do Good

April 6 Host a fundraiser house party for your favorite human rights organization with a viewing of Hotel Rwanda in memory of the Rwandan genocide's anniversary. The week provides a number of ways for you to do what you can. April 8 Watch the HBO special, The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo.

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The Networked NGO in India

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

100% of participants implement a process and write a social media policy that addresses organizational adoption issues. I learned this technique from Cheryl Francisconi, director of the IIE Addis-Ababa Office in Ethiopia, last month in Rwanda ,who uses a stone that has been held by many people.

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Some Reflections About Civil Society 2.0 and Why I’m Not On A Plane To Tunisia Right Now

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This is true both of us as individuals, but also in terms of broader policy. The USIP has been doing some really interesting work looking at this issue around “ dangerous speech ,” stemming from incitement during the Rwanda genocide.

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Guest Post from ThinkSocial: Building A Movement in An Interconnected World - A Conversation with Jacqueline Novogratz

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The distance between a social enterprise investor, a program officer, or a policy maker or citizen in the United States and a person in the slums of Kenya or India participating in an economic development or health social enterprise has never been smaller.