Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

It’s advice most often dispensed to discourage children from squandering their birthday money, but it is perhaps just as appropriate in this context. A brainstorm of online video-game concepts for Room to Read’s new children’s book, Zak the Yak with Books on His Back. • They say, “a penny saved is a penny earned”.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 27, 2015

In partnership with Orange France and Emmaus International, Clic Vert has developed electronics recycling and refurbishment workshops in Burkina Faso, Benin, Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Mali, Niger, Madagascar, and Togo to organize the collection and repair of used mobile phones. More than 580,000 phones were collected and tested in 2013.

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

At Geekcorps Mali, our approach was: through great engineering feats attempt to somehow lower the costs of access, while hopefully creating sustainable “business models” in the process. In the 180 clinics spanning two districts where the system has been tested, we’ve been getting roughly a 90% reporting rate.

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 22, 2021

In another study, researchers tested two versions of a brochure for the Save the Children charity organization. One of them featured statistics on the plight of African children and one was a story of Rokia, a seven-year-old from Mali, Africa. The story-based version outperformed the infographic version by $2.38

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