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Interview: Avi Kaplan, Epic Change for TweetsGiving

Amy Sample Ward

Avi is just back from Tanzania where he and other Epic Change team members were working with the students in the classroom built with last year’s TweetsGiving proceeds. TweetsGiving last year was overwhelming because we put the program together so quickly and really didn’t know what kind of response we would get.

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Interview: Avi Kaplan, Epic Change for TweetsGiving

Amy Sample Ward

Avi is just back from Tanzania where he and other Epic Change team members were working with the students in the classroom built with last year’s TweetsGiving proceeds. TweetsGiving last year was overwhelming because we put the program together so quickly and really didn’t know what kind of response we would get.

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Research Friday: The gift

ASU Lodestar Center

In 2010, I was a fresh young Ally in ASU’s Lodestar Center Public Allies program. This particular bench resides in a classroom in a small school in Moshi. Parents would often appear near the door of this classroom. I tried to picture a bench like this in a “Western” classroom. Local problems, local solutions. I got this.

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Microsoft YouthSpark: A New Chapter in Citizenship at Microsoft

Tech Soup

North Africa who have university degrees, but they are more likely to be unemployed than their less-educated peers due to the realities of the. In Sub-Saharan Africa, youth are grossly underemployed leaving 72% of youth living on less than US $2 per day. is a new focus for our philanthropy efforts. job market in the region.

Chapter 52
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Nonprofit Blog Highlight: Global Fund for Women

Have Fun - Do Good

That's an excerpt from a speech given by Muadi Mukenge the Global Fund for Women's Program Officer for Africa, at the Darfur Day of Conscience. I even took some to my classroom and lab. women international philanthropy blog It was turned into a post for the Global Fund for Women's blog. I don’t do this anymore.

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How Nelson Mandela’s Legacy to Advance Access to Education Lives On

Saleforce Nonprofit

In 1990, four months after being released from prison, Mandela visited Madison Park High School in Boston to address the community , and he expressed his deep concern about school dropouts both in South Africa and the U.S. The organisation personifies Mandela’s words, but also acts as inspiration for his legacy to live on in Africa.

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Five Social Media Fundraising Trends for 2009

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Last year, TweetsGiving , raised $11,000 to build a classroom in Tanzania using Twitter to spread messages of thanks and opportunities to donate. Donors As Program Partners Not Just Check Writers. We treat our donors as partners in our programs.”. Click at the Heartstrings.