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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. We hope that by spotlighting these brands and showing how such investments can be successful, we can encourage more corporations to harness sport’s power as a tool for social change.

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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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Unicef’s Little Bet on Pinboard

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I’m now on the prowl for examples from the nonprofit world of “Little Bets” and was excited to read about how Unicef created a fictional profile for a 13-year-old girl named Ami Musa, from the poor, war torn African country of Sierra Leone. Is your nonprofit placing a little bet on pinterest? What does it look like?

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Four Tips for Nonprofit Crowdfunding

Tech Soup

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. It's wise to have some type of spreadsheet or tracking tool so you can track the conversation. True believers are the advocates that will support your cause. Pitch and update.

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

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Hashtags are an important tool for increasing Instagram post visibility because many more people follow and search for content using hashtags on Instagram than on Facebook. 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.

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The Global Fund for Women: An Interview with Kavita Ramdas

Have Fun - Do Good

Increasingly, rape of women is being used as a tool of war, not just in large scale wars as we saw in the Serbian and Bosnian conflict, but as we saw recently in Kenya and in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. They are the majority of those who actually experience physical violence.

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