Amy Sample Ward

MAY 3, 2011

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. Build your own heartspace, share the campaign, and share your love!

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 31, 2006

At last night's awards ceremonies, the highlight was seeing four short films on four of the Skoll Social entrepreneurs. He tracked me down to explain what we were doing in our new environmental project! That's what Jeff does with Participant Productions, and a big piece of the Foundation's efforts are around helping us tell stories.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 29, 2012

will be awarding a total of approximately $5,000 to the causes represented in the winning films. Mr. Pipkin will share how he has used film with his organization, The Nobelity Project , to make real progress around the world. His short film, Let There Be Sight , about a surgical eyesight camp in Nepal, will premiere at Lights.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2008

GlobalGiving is very much a social enterprise - we run it like a company with monthly goals and metrics - all with the goal of attracting as many donors to support great projects around the world. I recently noticed that you had a project from New Orleans, can you tell me about it? Do you typically fund American projects?

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 17, 2006

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. I'd love to compile a list of stores with gifts that give back. What are some other online stores where you can buy do * good gifts during the holidays?

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Tech Soup

APRIL 19, 2016

Between 2006 and 2009, TechSoup hosted open challenges to identify and provide support for innovative projects that harnessed these and other technologies for social good. First, tech-for-good projects (either nonprofit or commercial) submitted a description of their project on the NetSquared website.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 29, 2017

During the early days of our Netsquared project , we held big annual conferences to showcase and fund innovative tech for good. Since then, the nonprofit has won other awards, such as the MacArthur Award for Creative & Effective Institutions. It puts one type of data on a map. Ushahidi's Early Days. So much innovation.

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