Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Note from Beth: As a supporter of the work that the Sharing Foundation does for children in Cambodia, I’ve seen first hand the value of literacy programs in developing countries. in Kenya with Mary, 10, circa 2006]. On the last stop of that trip, I went to Kenya to climb a mountain.

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And our Twitter chat was more global than ever before, with people from 20 countries participating! Imagine children around the United States learning mindfulness. Then imagine how this teaching can impact children's lives, transforming their journey through life. Story of Tomorrow Winner — SEEDS final.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

Note from Beth: On my way to Kenya for the Ushahidi Board meeting , so enjoy this post by Manny Hernandez. By the time, the donation is made, the lives of thousands of children with diabetes in need will have been saved. Note from Beth: On my way to Kenya for the Ushahidi Board meeting, so enjoy this post by Manny Hernandez.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Photo by Pratham Books: Snapshots from Bookaroo 2010 : Children's Literature Festival. Pratham Books is a non-profit children’s book publisher based in India and our mission, while simple, is also rather audacious – “A Book in Every Child’s Hand”.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2011

On September 11, despite having reunited several families, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children had a list of 1,600 children listed as missing by their parents, or who were seeking their families. Yahoo set up 100 Internet-linked computers at the Astrodome and developed a meta-search of evacuee registration websites.

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AUGUST 31, 2010

About a year ago in Kenya, we launched ChildCount+, which helps community health care workers register children under-5 and pregnant mothers in their communities and facilitates monitoring their health. I’ve been working or interested in the space of ICT for Development (ICT4D) for about a decade now.

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MARCH 24, 2014

We have another date for the end of the global digital divide! Way back in August I posed the somewhat rhetorical question: Will Facebook’s Internet.org Bridge the Global Digital Divide? My current favorite digital inclusion NGO is our newest TechSoup Global partner, Computers For Schools Kenya. Digital Inclusion.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

I imagined women or girls who received cards might keep them in a place in her home, in a drawer, or on a shelf that would always remind her that she is cared for, and that she is a part of a much larger global community. She then went on to hold several Traveling Postcards workshops both in her own community, and then in Kenya!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 12, 2006

She notes, "I started in Kenya working with a water users association, living in a thatched hut!" For development, there are blogs from agencies like bellanet or global s for a selection of blogposts from any country you are interested in. re online, you blog and you have young children. t have a clue."

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MAY 4, 2010

Melinda Kramer: Women's Earth Alliance is a global organization and we work around the world uniting women who are on the front lines of environmental causes. Women hold these toxins in their body, and this is what they have to pass on to their children. MK: One of the highlights for me was the Global Peers program.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 20, 2008

Martin Fisher: The problem we're trying to solve is global poverty. As long as we have massive global poverty, we really can't solve any of our other biggest problems because if you have people who are starving, they're going to do anything to stay alive. They live about 40 miles outside of the big city in Kenya, Nairobi.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

And for those that aren’t aware in relation to the construction industry, you know, construction globally and in the United States has continued to grow and hasn’t stopped throughout the pandemic. We have a vision to build a sickle cell-centric hospital in Western Kenya.” So there’s a need.

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DECEMBER 28, 2006

She is the co-founder and co-director of Women's Global Green Action Network , a nonprofit that cultivates global partnerships of grassroots women environmental leaders by providing access to communication tools, support services and networking capabilities. Below is a transcript of an interview with her from the Big Vision Podcast.

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JULY 3, 2006

I think those have been the experiences, both inside and then outside the country, that have really inspired me to know that the work that I am doing here, in San Francisco, is connected to a global movement that is, I think some day, going to achieve justice. You can also find transcripts of past interviews on that blog as well.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 21, 2006

Being able to supplement our nutritional intake at a local basis, and to be able to contribute towards localizing the food system to reduce our impact on global ways that food is being produced and transported and fuels being wasted and what not. If you liked the opening music, it was an excerpt from Kenya Masala's, "Mango Delight."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

Ushahidi Board Meeting at iHub in Kenya. I’ve just spent the last couple of days in Nairobi, Kenya because I’m a board member of an NGO based here, Ushahidi , an organization that builds tools for democratizing information and increasing transparency. The Networked Nonprofit In Kenya. Response was laughter).

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JANUARY 2, 2013

SOS Children’s Villages International :: @ SOS_Children. SOS Children’s Villages works to stop more than half a million children ending up alone, abandoned or in institutions. 10×10 is global action campaign with a film as its centerpiece.Their message is simply this: Educate girls and you can change the world.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2007

She is donating 100 percent of the royalties from the book to the Global Fund for Women. The children are ages 6-16, and they're making huge strides by leading a national movement against child rape in Zimbabwe. PG: I think that the one that comes to mind first is a wonderful picture of women in Kenya who are growing corn.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 30, 2007

I ended up discovering a program, at New College of California, a couple of years later, when I was producing arts benefits for social change, especially for women and children living with HIV, this was about 1989 and 1990. One will be for mothers who are mourning the loss of their children who died in gunfights in Oakland.

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JUNE 29, 2006

How do we stop violence and how do we eradicate poverty in our communities, and uplift people, and how do we also do that in a way that respects the environment, that looks at innovation, and that addresses issues like global warming and peak-oil and environmental racism? How do we build new visions and programs that serve everybody?

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 2, 2008

Kavita Ramdas, President and CEO, Global Fund for Women. Kavita Ramdas is the President and CEO of the nonprofit, the Global Fund for Women. I think it's worth it (: Kavita Ramdas: The Global Fund for Women is the largest independent, publicly supported grant-making foundation to advance women's human rights internationally.

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