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Can love change the world? I hope so!

Amy Sample Ward

At 19, New Jersey native Maggie Doyne used her life savings from babysitting to start Kopila Valley children’s home in Nepal, which has grown to a home for over 40 children, and a school serving over 200 students.

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Posts from the Skoll World Forum

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

At last night's awards ceremonies, the highlight was seeing four short films on four of the Skoll Social entrepreneurs. They are definitely tackling market failure in the publishing industry: in Nepal they are now the second largest publisher of children's books in Nepali.

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The 2012 Lights. Camera. Help. Nonprofit Film Festival

Tech Soup

will be awarding a total of approximately $5,000 to the causes represented in the winning films. His short film, Let There Be Sight , about a surgical eyesight camp in Nepal, will premiere at Lights. New this year: The festival has added a keynote address by writer, filmmaker, and philanthropist Turk Pipkin. directly after his keynote.

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2013 NTC Round-Up: Your Takeaways

NTEN

Countries represented: 13 (US, Canada, UK, Korea, Australia, Switzerland, Netherlands, Poland, Belgium, Ireland, Nepal, Mexico, and Ghana). NTEN''s Lifetime Achievement Award Goes To Laura Glenn-Davitan , Common Good Vermont. Four Best Charity Videos Recognised by DoGooder Video Awards 2013 , UK Fundraising. Speakers: 250.

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Go Holiday Shopping with Your Global Girlfriend

Have Fun - Do Good

Global Girlfriend's founder, Stacey Edgar, received a Microsoft Start Something Amazing Awards Honorable Mention , and was named the 2005 Aveeno Woman with Organic Style.

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2013 NTC Round-Up: Your Takeaways

NTEN

Countries represented: 13 (US, Canada, UK, Korea, Australia, Switzerland, Netherlands, Poland, Belgium, Ireland, Nepal, Mexico, and Ghana). NTEN''s Lifetime Achievement Award Goes To Laura Glenn-Davitan , Common Good Vermont. Four Best Charity Videos Recognised by DoGooder Video Awards 2013 , UK Fundraising. Speakers: 250.

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Meet Donna Callejon, Chief Operating Officer of Global Giving

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

And then finally one of our project sponsoring organizations is the Tech Museum Awards in San Jose, so there are several US based Tech Laureates who have posted projects. In addition, we have a partnership with Pandora.com, the only radio service, and for them we've added a few US based music projects.

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