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How to Maximize Success Stories Across Your Nonprofit’s Digital Channels

Nonprofit Tech for Good

One such example involves the story of Fanta, a woman who managed her at-risk pregnancy and delivered a healthy baby with PIH’s help in Sierra Leone. The post featured an unposed, documentary-style photo and copy that reads like a news hook, highlighting the danger of giving birth in Sierra Leone.

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The Power of Sport in Changing the World

Saleforce Nonprofit

In 2005, a visit to Right to Play in Sierra Leone with skateboarding icon Tony Hawk changed my life. Nelson Mandela surrounded by Laureus Academy members Nadia Comaneci, Nawal El Moutawakel, and Giacomo Agostini. I’ve been fortunate to travel around the world and experience the transformational work of the programs we support.

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Red Cross Uses Texts as a Weapon in West Africa Ebola Fight – Philanthropy Today - Blogs - The Chronicle of Philanthropy

AFP Blog

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How Bitcoin is Used in Combatting Ebola - NPQ - Nonprofit Quarterly

AFP Blog

How Bitcoin is Used in Combatting Ebola - NPQ - Nonprofit Quarterly : "A group from Ghana has found a way to deploy cash donations more rapidly and more effectively directly to the front lines of the effort to contain Ebola in neighboring Sierra Leone.

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The Surprising Truth About Donor Fatigue And What Nonprofits Can Do To Avoid It

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

between our Sierra Leone Mudslides appeal in August and our Harvey, Irma, and Mexico earthquake appeals in September. This is compared with 7.3% repeat rate among our non-disaster projects during the same time this year, and 6.3% among non-disaster projects in the same period of 2016.

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UN World Food Programme Featured in Blood Diamond

Have Fun - Do Good

The WFP provided food aid from 1991-2002 during the civil war in Sierra Leone. On the WFP site you can: * Read about "Blood, Diamonds and Hunger" and the WFP's work in Sierra Leone. Read an interview with Paul Arè s , the former WFP regional manager for West Africa, about his experience in Sierra Leone in the 1990s.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society - Untitled Article

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

We have multiple projects going right now in Sierra Leone. Times have changed dramatically. Cybercafes are found in quite poor areas. And, of course, there are many human rights and social justice issues in Africa. Our big news is major support for more work by Benetech in Africa, thanks to the U.S. Department of State.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society - Untitled Article

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Patrick Ball is here working on the Sierra Leone Truth and Reconciliation Commission data analysis. I have had several great conversations about the state of adaptive technology for the African blind, and am getting good ideas for how we can help over the next few years. I also have been meeting with human rights groups.

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Data Digest: Open Data for Africa Platform, Silent Data Revolution in MENA and Data Strategies

Tech Soup Blog

The platform has been rolled out to 54 African countries and will support the gathering, access, management and analysis of quality data from African countries.

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Four Tips for Nonprofit Crowdfunding

Tech Soup Blog

One Girl Australia raised $50,000 the first year they ran Do it in a Dress , a global campaign to empower girls in Sierra Leone with education. True believers are the advocates that will support your cause. The second year, the campaign raised over $270,000!

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Do-Good Mother's Day Gift and Donation Ideas

Have Fun - Do Good

Plus, your gift will be matched to support their maternal health programs in Sierra Leone. When you give a refugee a "lifesaving gift" like prenatal care, school supplies, or blankets through a donation to the International Rescue Committee , they will send your mom a card, or e-card.

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Be a Blogger for Human Rights

Have Fun - Do Good

Anyway, he mentioned that he set up a Typepad blog for Witness' Director, Gillian Caldwell to document her trip to Sierra Leone with Angelina Jolie to deliver recommendations of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) to the government. You can read case studies of how their videos have made a difference here.

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Why Building Resilient Networks Matter

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This puts New York City’s economic disparity on par with places like Sierra Leone or Namibia. Manhattan’s wealthiest 20% have incomes that are, on average, 40 times that of the poorest 20% ($400,000 vs. $10,000).

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Sheroes You Should Know: Inspiring Stories for #WomensHistoryMonth

EveryAction

Before her historic flight, Jemison served as a Peace Corps Medical Officer in Sierra Leone and Liberia, where she oversaw the medical system that serviced Peace Corps and U.S. With the launch of the Endeavor Shuttle, engineer, physician, and astronaut Mae Jemison became the first African American woman in space in 1992. Nellie Bly.

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The Global Fund for Women: An Interview with Kavita Ramdas

Have Fun - Do Good

A truly remarkably story of very every day mothers and daughters in Liberia who were just so sick of the civil war between Charles Taylor, and then the rebels in Liberia, being funded with Sierra Leone diamonds essentially, that they mobilized an entire community of women around peace.

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