Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 30, 2012

Mattel company spokesman Alan Hilowitz told HealthPop that the company will produce a friend of Barbie that will have wigs, hats, scarves and other accessories to give children "a traditional fashion play experience." " The kids will have the option to remove the wigs and head coverings.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 11, 2006

This school is run by an NGO (a nonprofit) and provides free education to children who come from disadvantaged backgrounds. They are very focused on education linked to vocational outcomes: the goal is to help these children move up the economic ladder with real job skills. The children were simply delightful.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

Matures and Baby Boomers donate most often to places of worship while Gen X and Millennials donate most often to children and youth development. 88% of dollars raised comes from 12% of an organization’s donors. For every 1,000 website visitors, a nonprofit raises $612. S ource: Abila. Source: Blackbaud. Source: mGive.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2012

After finishing a four-day intensive training in Delhi for the Networked NGO , I stayed on a few days in India to visit colleague, Rufina Fernandez, who I met when she was the CEO of the Nasscom Foundation when she brought me to India to speak at the leadership conference and teach workshops back in 2010. The man denied it and left.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Khi’s father (aged 70) and godmother (aged 82) are both in Ukraine, as are her stepsister and her children. But although her fundraiser raised plenty of money, Khi realized there was no viable NGO to distribute the supplies on the ground in the middle of a fast-moving war zone. This led her to creating the Sunflower Relief NGO.

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Care2

MARCH 18, 2012

It’s been close to two weeks since Invisible Children released it’s "Kony 2012" video, which quickly spread across social networks, blogs, and made headlines across major news networks and newspapers like the NYT and the Washington Post. Has Invisible Children been transparent? Is this responsible social change?

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Candid

APRIL 14, 2022

Care and protection of children account for 26% of grant dollars. Children. The care and protection of children account for 30% of grants and 26% of dollar value. We have identified 540 grants worth $667,728,963 and 122 pledges worth $653,512,350 as of April 1. Women and girls account for 3% of grant dollars. Population.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 17, 2006

Many children in Cambodia do not go to school because their families lack the $10 for a uniform, required for school attendance, and other school supplies. The Sharing Foundation gave them to needy children in Roteang Village, to the Street Children's Assistance NGO, and to a poor government orphanage.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2007

If you are reader of this blog, you are probably aware of the campaign I ran to raise money for Leng Sopharath's college tuition using the ChipIn fundraising widget. The photo above came in today's letter from Leng Sopharath. You can read see the other photos and read the letter in flickr here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 26, 2006

Many children in Cambodia do not go to school because their families lack the $10 for a uniform, required for school attendance, and other school supplies. This year we could more than double the number of uniforms we provide to children in Cambodia, including some for HIV children's group homes. So, why not help us today!

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Tech Soup

JUNE 4, 2012

How One NGO Serves 70,000 Children. Speaking of impact, London, England-based Childreach International works in partnership with local communities in the developing world to help improve children’s access to healthcare, education, child rights, and protection. It has just 20 UK-based staff.

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

The end of the Guatemalan Civil War resulted in a flood of non-governmental organization (NGO) programs spreading across the country in the hope of helping desperately poor people gain everything from their human rights, to better health care, food and nutrition, and training in governance. Make sure you know what minimum wage laws provide.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 25, 2013

The goal of these case studies is to raise awareness of the impact these nonprofits are making in South Africa. Children and Education. Kliptown Youth Programme provides after-school activities and educational support to disadvantaged children from the Kliptown area. Art and Media. About SANGONet.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2006

I just set up a ChipIn page and widget (see above) to help raise money for an NGO, the Sharing Foundation that supports children in Cambodia. I'm on the board. One of its many programs is the college sponsorship program.

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Tech Soup

JULY 13, 2012

For example, the Surf Excel India's Back to School Campaign reached out to needy children who go to learning centers and schools run by NGOs. Their Facebook campaign page engaged more than 800,000 fans during the campaign and sensitized them to the needs of poor children.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

Between now and December 31st, Beth is working to raise $750 for the Sharing Foundation , an NGO that works with local officials, orphanages, and NGOs in Cambodia to improve children's lives. As of this writing, 3 PM on November 16th PST, she has raised 44% of her goal, and she started the campaign ten days ago!

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 23, 2014

By Madeline Turner : A lover of words, fellow middle children, bold ideas, and Thai food. By Nancy Palo : A fundraising strategy consultant who is passionate about helping non-profits raise money to further their missions and make the world a better place. By Andrew Shoaff : Passionate about the NGO community. Know Your Type.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2006

It is a partnership of UN agencies, NGOs, businesses, schools, universities, communities and individuals who all believe that we can work together to end child hunger. The main focus is raising awareness. From their annual global Walk the World to educating decision makers on the importance of well nourished children.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 13, 2009

But technology is critical to an organization's success: all staff depend on it to deliver programs, communicate the organization's mission, raise money, etc. NGOs cannot follow in the footsteps of corporations; we need to stand on their shoulders. These are not questions to knock us down, but to challenge us to better solutions.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

This post originally appeared on the Netsquared blog and was authored by Bari Samad, an NGO domain expert for NetSquared. People are living longer and more children are surviving to become adults. Last week, the world’s population reached a staggering 7 billion people. Now, it only takes about 13 years to add a billion people!

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Qgiv

MARCH 5, 2024

What is an NGO (Non-Governmental Organization)? An NGO is a type of nonprofit organized at the local, national, or international level that works independently of any government involvement. These risk pools must raise $1,000,000 in startup capital from non-charitable organizations to qualify for this status.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

For causes, this can range from increasing conversion rates by testing simple design tweaks, to nailing rapid response and raising $24M in a weekend. Anyone with a smartphone, passion for a cause and few hundred followers can raise awareness, mobilize support around an issue, and raise money from friends and family, and are already doing so.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

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. I ask people to share what is top of mind when they think about social media and their NGO.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2006

She caught my attention because she founded an organization that works with orphaned and disabled children in Kenya. She also asked some really good questions about blogging for ngos on the listserv. She lived in China for 8 months with her 2 young children. Ali is the Founder of AVIF (ABLe Volunteers International Fund).

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 15, 2004

So she started an NGO to work on the issues outside the doctor's role of treatment, that are needed to break the cycle of hospitalization that leads to death. They are roughly ten years old, and have begun a process of professionalization, expansion, measurement of results and building a network of replication NGOs in other public hospitals.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2012

We promised the monk that we would hold Cambodia in our hearts and travel back with our children to their birth country when they were old enough to appreciate it. This is the first of a three-part post about what I learned about social media, NGOs, and Social Change in Cambodia. That time was earlier this month. p/N5Kf7LlZpl/.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 5, 2006

But wanted to capture some quick thoughts related to a couple of recent awareness raising activities taking place in Second Life or recently launched. Today, I got a report via the TechSoup Second Life listserv about an awareness-raising campaign for homeless children in Second Life - reported here , here and here. Provide Hope.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 11, 2009

In Roteang Village, where the Sharing Foundation has programs that help over 1,500 children each and every day, there was a birthday bash at the orphanage for the 70 plus children. We raised $6,158 from 157 donors! This is my 7th personal fundraising campaign using social media tools to help the children of Cambodia.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2009

This nonprofit helps to care for children in Cambodia. If you want to know more about why my family and I care about the children of Cambodia and this charity, take a minute to watch this video my son, Harry, made last year.). I've already raised enough through my Facebook Birthday Cause to send 100 kids to school this year!

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Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

The Planetary Health diet is a guideline developed by independent NGO commission ‘Eat Forum’ for the UN. Raising animals is also water intensive, using up our limited supplies. There’s also a growing radical trend to avoid having children because of the uncertainty of the planet’s future.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 16, 2009

If you are in charge of communications for your nonprofit or NGO, I recommend you read The She Spot: Why Women Are the Market for Changing the World, and How to Reach Them by Lisa Witter and Lisa Chen. Which is a really interesting observation if you think back on Hillary Clinton's fund-raising and Barack Obama's fund-raising.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 2, 2021

And I wrote two books which are also like my other two children. So, yes, I think the Global NGO Technology Report found the majority of nonprofits do agree social media is effective for creating brand awareness. And it’s a huge driver of online fundraising, and also just awareness raising. Know who you want to reach. .

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Tech Soup

JUNE 4, 2014

One of these projects is Hope Village, which provides care for orphan children with HIV in Malawi. The village is currently home to 30 children infected with HIV, who receive the proper care they need to survive and thrive, despite their illness. She has been able to will this global NGO into fruition from her kitchen table.

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Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

The Planetary Health diet is a guideline developed by independent NGO commission ‘Eat Forum’ for the UN. Raising animals is also water intensive, using up our limited supplies. There’s also a growing radical trend to avoid having children because of the uncertainty of the planet’s future.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 22, 2015

He runs these ultramarathons to raise money and generate awareness for charitable causes. David's motivation is also charitable: he uses the ultramarathons to raise money for causes he believes in. His first race was dedicated to raising money for the Southern African NGO Network (SANGONeT).

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Care2

JUNE 1, 2009

We have raised funds for many hundreds of nonprofits by mail, and dozens online – a total exceeding half a billion dollars, largely in the form of small gifts. 2) No one knows with any degree of precision how much money is raised each year via direct mail. That the total funds raised by U.S. So I do know whereof I write.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 8, 2007

Caitlin tells it like it is--the nitty gritty of starting up an NGO, and why she believes it is important to help the people you are serving to create the change they want to see, not to create the change for them. The biggest challenge is definitely the fact that an “NGO” in Mali is seen as a “waritigi” (money owner).

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