Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog
JANUARY 12, 2007
It was my last afternoon in Mali, as I started psychic re-entry process into my normal existence, that I remembered that in real life, hey, I'm a geek. So I dropped by the offices of GeekCorps Mali, which as it turned out was just around the corner from where I was staying at Rebecca and Fode's house in the Quartier Hippodrome.
Have Fun - Do Good
DECEMBER 27, 2006
By the third page of Monique and the Mango Rains, you know that Monique, a midwife in Mali, will die in childbirth. A percentage of the book's sales will go to expand the capabilities of the clinic, as well as to provide school tuition and health care for Monique’s children. midwife mali women Peace Corps friendship
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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”.
Have Fun - Do Good
FEBRUARY 8, 2007
In December I wrote a book review of Monique and the Mango Rains , the story of a Peace Corps worker's two years working with a midwife in Mali. Below is an e-interview with another woman making a difference in Mali, Caitlin Cohen, one of two US coordinators of the Sigida Keneyali Project. What is the biggest challenge of your work?
NTEN
AUGUST 25, 2009
The mission statement of One Laptop per Child is artfully constructed: "To create educational opportunities for the world's poorest children by providing each child with a rugged, low-cost, low-power, connected laptop with content and software designed for collaborative, joyful, self-empowered learning."
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. The field became fixated on achieving two holy-grails, requisite in every proposal, but nearly always unattainable: sustainability and scalability. .
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
OCTOBER 12, 2006
" Later, her work brought her to Mali, where she advised on participatory methods. re online, you blog and you have young children. I found a new balance since the children go to school and want to play with friends rather than with me. But my children still complain at times and tell me to close down the computer!
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