The Modern Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Do you help feed thousands of people in Rwanda? This guide will help you write a winning nonprofit crowdfunding story that’ll help you raise enough funds for your organization. What problem will you solve? Or perhaps your organization saves exotic animals from becoming extinct.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 27, 2012

They are already active in Africa and Latin America, in countries like Uganda, Rwanda, Liberia, El Salvador, Mexico, Guatemala and Nicaragua. The founding team includes leaders from each of the first three Gold Standard clean cookstove projects (and these projects delivered more than half a million stoves). The economics are compelling.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 29, 2014

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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 16, 2012

I focused on showing them Twitter because there were so many examples of women leaders here in Rwanda and other countries in Africa using it for networking and professional development. They were very excited to see the Minister of Health in Rwanda on Twitter. I had them view other profiles and share what struck them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 24, 2012

” Using a webinar and conference call platform, we were able to bring in participants from San Francisco, Rwanda, Kenya, Algeria, Tunisia, and Egypt. I organized and moderated a panel called “ Women Who Tech Globally.” Unfortunately, our presenter from Lebanon had connectivity issues and was unable to present.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

An example of such an approach is the support of women’s economic empowerment in places like Uganda or Rwanda through leveraging technology for mobile-based training, business mentorship by local experts, and global skill-based volunteers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2012

Note from Beth: By the time you are reading, I’ll probably have been on a jet plane for far longer than I want to be and maybe have landed in Rwanda. Once I recover from the journey, expect read reports about the Networked NGO in Rwanda and use of social media to support Women’s Rights organizations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 14, 2012

Note from Beth: I’m just finishing up an intensive training here in Rwanda. Note from Beth: I’m just finishing up an intensive training here in Rwanda.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 4, 2012

Note From Beth: Just before I left for Rwanda, I caught some interesting discussion threads about organizational adoption of networked ways of working on Twitter coming from the #COFLA hashtag as a result of the Council on Foundations gathering in Florida.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2009

Spencer Brodsky is 17 and he is spending his time online to raise money to bring Green Stoves to Rwanda , something he's been doing for the past 2 years. . Spencer Brodsky.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 2, 2013

Gorilla Doctors provides life-saving medical care to mountain and Grauer’s gorillas in Rwanda, Uganda, and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Vital Voices works with extraordinary women leaders accelerating peace and prosperity in their communities. Gorilla Doctors :: @ GorillaDoctors. Population Council :: @ Pop_Council.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2014

The second most conversational leader is Rwanda’s President @PaulKagame who often gets into memorable Twitter exchanges with his critics. Ugandan Prime Minister @AmamaMbabazi is the most conversational world leader with 95 percent of his tweets being @replies to other Twitter users. You can view the full results of the study here.

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AFP Blog

MAY 13, 2016

The foundation is supporting the initiative—which plans to launch its first drones in Rwanda later this year—with an $800,000 grant." 'via via Blog this'

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

In November 2021, we joined with our ImpactCloud partners, AWS, nonprofits like NetHope and Mercy Corps , the Pacific Disaster Center , and the USAID Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance (BHA) in a crisis response scenario to a simulated earthquake in Rwanda. The challenges facing humanity in 2021 are intersectional and complex.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 1, 2012

An organization dedicated to “never again” a genocide — such as those in Europe, Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia, and Darfur — must raise awareness and advocate with as much energy as it raises money. All departments of the organization need to know what the other departments are doing.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 4, 2011

At SFAI, Christy wrote her MA Thesis on Alfredo Jaar's The Rwanda Project, looking specifically at the impact of photographic representations of Africa in the American media. Christy helped found the San Francisco-based digital photography publication, Once Magazine.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 28, 2013

Charity:Water used it for its Rwanda Campaign. Some nonprofits are experimenting with a group of tools called “Amplifiers” that allow you sign up your fans and friends to tweet all together at the start of the event. One of the more popular with nonprofits is ThunderClap.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 2, 2012

Note from Beth: By the time you read this post, I’ll be in the air enroute to Rwanda for a training project. Photo by WhiteAfrican. As a parent of wired kids, I think teaching digital literacy is very important for parents to do. Here’s some great advice from my colleagues at CommonSense Media.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 18, 2009

Past winners traveled to Cameroon, the Central African Republic, Rwanda, and Congo. The winner will go on an international reporting trip with him to focus attention on the problems of global poverty, and its solutions. Possible destinations this year are Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Liberia and/or Ghana.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 12, 2010

I met Spencer Brodsky last December when he was doing a fundraiser campaign for his project in Rwanda. So, being able do some real time network weaving while the birthday campaign was unfolding was highly satsifying. He helped me with reaching my influencers on Twitter. And connected with Mark Horvath.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 1, 2009

Your mom will receive a a handmade card made by a woman in their program in Rwanda. If you have trouble opening the donate link in Firefox, like I did, try it in another web browser. Women for Women International to support women survivors of war. Donate before May 5th to make sure she receives her card on time.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 3, 2009

According to the Genocide Prevention Month's site , the genocide in Bosnia began April 6, in Rwanda April 7, in Cambodia April 17, in Darfur April 19, in Armenia April 24, and the Holocast began April 21st. Did you know that six genocides began in the month of April?

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 22, 2006

Yesterday I went to see Paul Rusesabagina speak, the man who inspired the movie, Hotel Rwanda. darfur genocide rwanda bloggers He was promoting his memoir, An Ordinary Man.

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Tech Soup Blog

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

The system is used by hospitals around the world to better diagnose patients, like a hospital in Rwanda that was able to identify HIV-positive children who had not been picked up by the pediatric program to get them on life-saving treatment.

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Tech Soup Blog

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Left photo : Gregory Munyaneza / NetSquared Rwanda / CC BY. Paris, France: Analytics — Initiation. Tuesday, October 31, 2017. Renens, Switzerland: OpenLab: Visite du Fablab de Renens. Center photo : Chrispin Okumu / NetSquared Kenya / CC BY. Right photo : Chrispin Okumu / NetSquared Kenya / CC BY. spanhidden.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

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. I improvised and had participants pass around a flower.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 17, 2008

Women for Women International supports women survivors of war in conflict and post-conflict areas (Afghanistan, Bosnia, Herzegovina, Democratic Republic of Congo, Iraq, Kosovo, Nigeria, Rwanda, and Sudan). Each woman is paired with a sponsor whose donation helps to cover some of their basic necessities (food, water, medicine).

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 26, 2008

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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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 17, 2007

As a result, the UN is making the same mistakes it made on Darfur and Rwanda. They've organized an international Olympic Torch Relay which began on August 9 in Chad, near the Darfur border, and will finish in China in January. We are calling on people of conscience throughout the world to boycott the 2008 Chinese Olympics."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 16, 2008

I'm thinking about the personal approach the Jen Lemen used to raised for her mission to Rwanda - and she did it in record time -- that is the result of relationship building. Mani points to some good examples (including Roger) - but also Anne Mitchell who helped raise money for the desperately poor in Tajikistan.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 23, 2006

Later, they learned that it happened again and again – in the cases of Cambodia, Bosnia and Rwanda - and it was still happening but nobody was doing anything about it. Since then, the network has grown to include hundreds of members residing in the UK, Rwanda, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Burundi, China, and Canada.

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Tech Soup Blog

AUGUST 1, 2017

Kigali, Rwanda: Storytelling Event. Jakarta, Indonesia: YouTube for Nonprofits. Africa and Middle East. Friday, August 4, 2017. Mukono, Uganda: Second Term 2017 Solar Mobile Computer Training Meetup for Kibiribiri Primary School. Saturday, August 5, 2017. Bunda, Tanzania: Microsoft Cloud Computing. Sunday, August 6, 2017.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2008

You can purchase a gift or card that provides AIDS grants in Ghana, Rwanda, and Swaziland. And, don't just support Breast Cancer Research on special holidays, every Friday is PeaFund Friday. Join the Red Campaign.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 19, 2006

Betty Christiansen's book, Knitting for Peace: Make the World a Better Place One Stitch at a Time , captures 28 stories of people and organizations who are using knitting to comfort, empower and heal.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

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

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Forum One

MAY 20, 2009

It is a known fact that over half of international aid never makes it to the actual people in need (only 20 percent of aid ever reached Rwanda during its recent genocide). As Fairbanks said, "What does every problem look like if all you have is a checkbook?"

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 12, 2006

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