Tech Soup

APRIL 8, 2010

Roger told us about his job as a writer for Mercy Corps , where he's traveled to places like the Congo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and most recently Haiti, writing about the man-made and natural disasters that have struck those places and the accompanying relief efforts.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 18, 2009

Past winners traveled to Cameroon, the Central African Republic, Rwanda, and Congo. The winner will go on an international reporting trip with him to focus attention on the problems of global poverty, and its solutions. Possible destinations this year are Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Liberia and/or Ghana.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 14, 2010

Keep a gratitude journal, or make monthly gratitude collages Participate in a fundraising walk for a cause I care about, like Women for Women International's Run for Congo Women. Join a read-a-thon, or blog-a-thon for a cause I care about (anyone know of one?).

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Forum One

JANUARY 21, 2009

Combating Malaria: A First-Hand Account From Congo. Some past topics include: Caesarean Deliveries: Why Are They Key for Maternal Health in Developing Countries? Environmental Change: What Are the Links With Migration? Managing Unauthorized Migration. PRB is running these online conversations using Forum One's Live! Interviews Online service.

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Care2

APRIL 22, 2013

Justin has an MBA from the University of Colorado and has worked a variety of jobs ranging from organic farming, to starting a human rights nonprofit in Congo, to launching an artisan roasted-nut company in Colorado. He is passionate about helping nonprofits use a data-driven, efficient approach to online marketing.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Roger shared a little of his philosophy, the basis of his session at the 2009 NTC , " Better Online Storytelling ", upon his return from a trip to the Congo. . Compelling messages that make the work of Mercy Corps seem more real than any list of figures. I couldn't agree more.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 30, 2008

After you look at the sobering visualization of incidents in the Congo (DRC), you may need another dose of puppies. Economy got you down? You need the live puppy cam ! Ushahidi gathers crisis reports from mobile sources, then maps the data. Wired stakeholders. IBM's going to bring broadband to rural areas over power lines. NTEN Member Beth J.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

In Uganda, a group of young people made incredible, heartfelt postcards filled with glitter and cut up magazine pictures to send to women in the Congo. We have come a long way! Anyone with a desire to enact change, empower women and girls, and help battle oppression is invited to share their voice and join us.

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CauseVox

JUNE 1, 2021

Source: Casa Congo, School for Conservation). In fact, 80% of the top grossing campaigns through CauseVox use visual storytelling to showcase their cause and crush their fundraising goal. Need some inspiration? Here’s a couple examples pulled from recent CauseVox campaigns. Source: Neverthirst, Workout For Water).

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Care2

APRIL 5, 2011

In addition to working a variety of jobs ranging from picking organic peas to writing a book on using military networks, Justin has a passion for international development and indigenous rights from studies in Brazil and South Africa where he helped start a human rights nonprofit for Pygmies in Congo.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 26, 2008

April 8 Watch the HBO special, The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo. April 6 Host a fundraiser house party for your favorite human rights organization with a viewing of Hotel Rwanda in memory of the Rwandan genocide's anniversary. April 9 Attend a protest along the Olympic Torch relay route in San Francisco.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 13, 2009

The women that we are servicing in Congo, where, if they are lucky, they get $0.20 The women that we are servicing in Congo, where, if they are lucky, they get $0.20 We work in countries like Congo, Rwanda, Sudan, Iraq, Afghanistan, Bosnia, Kosovo, among others. That's the story of Women for Women. Why would my mother betray me?

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

Since then, the platform (which is open source ) has been modified for use in South Africa (mapping xenophobic violence), DR Congo , Vote Report India (to monitor the recent local elections) and more. This proved to the Ushahidi team that their tool would be valuable to communities around the world.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

It's called Why Congo Matters. I think it is really cool that Tharum, a Cambodian Blogger, is mentoring a Danish blogger launching a climate change blog! Emily Troutman has just launched a new online art/journalism project with a social conscious. The Year That Changed the World from Michael Meyer was just published.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

Since then, the platform (which is open source ) has been modified for use in South Africa (mapping xenophobic violence), DR Congo , Vote Report India (to monitor the recent local elections) and more. This proved to the Ushahidi team that their tool would be valuable to communities around the world.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 7, 2009

I want you, whether you’re in the Congo or Darfur or if you’re in Iran or if you’re in Tanzania, Kosovo…you shoot that story like it’s your mother, your brother, your sister, your father and your cousin and you tell that in that way because that’s actually the road, I think, to not only clarity and truth and understanding.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 25, 2007

The Congo Gorilla Forest , is a special exhibition produced by the Wildlife Conservation Society at the Bronx Zoo. The museum display included information about the issue, a countdown clock to the government's decision, and a running tally of postcards submitted to date.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 19, 2009

He ran into Congo. He was there for about a month, and then war in Congo was breaking out. His idea is that he wants to recreate, in reverse, the walk that he made from Sudan all the way through Congo and into Zambia. He was coming back to his village, and he found that his village was in flames. It had been bombed.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 3, 2007

Anyone could call in and hear an update about developments on the ground in Darfur and Congo, and upcoming legislation, events and campaigns. On Friday, I was on a "Darfur Activist" conference call produced by ENOUGH , the Genocide Intervention Network , STAND and the Save Darfur Coalition.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2007

He said he would more focus on the "death and destruction" in northern Uganda and Eastern Congo. He talked about Iraq, and said it was important, but there is enough media coverage of it all ready, and he feels nothing could be done in the short term.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 18, 2007

It's also a nice "put your money where your mouth is," not wholy unlike that at the Bronx Zoo's Congo Gorilla Forest, where you choose which gorilla advocacy group your admission fee will support. Free Rice applies a simple, powerful consequence to scoring.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 15, 2008

Our office in Rwanda was supposed to be our next office opening anytime now, but because of the war in the Congo, visas and business licenses and things like that have been put on hold. Hopefully, the situation in the Congo resolves itself and doesn't cross the border into Rwanda, as it did in the '90s.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

Then, the magazine is like a curation of all the best that's out there on our newswire, on our pipeline of content.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 29, 2008

For example, the Holocaust Museum has a great Flash exhibition of Angelina Jolie’s trip to the Congo. Flash experiences also frequently require single starting points and can create nested walled gardens within the walls of your site. It has all kinds of audio and imagery to explore with a star at the helm.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 18, 2010

Patrick Ball, Benetech's Chief Scientist and Vice President of our Human Rights Program, is spending much of this year in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Patrick is working with a UN human rights project.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 22, 2008

The conflict in the Democratic Republic Congo has received scant attention from policymakers and the news media even as over 5.4 Fortunately, new organizations are now leading the charge to bring attention to the horrors being perpetrated in the ongoing crisis in eastern Congo. million people have died in the past 10 years.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 22, 2010

This claim is based in large part on the authors’ graphical representations of pre- and post-conflict mortality rates for a variety of countries, and on their critique of five surveys conducted by the International Rescue Committee (IRC) in the Democratic Republic of Congo between 2000 and 2007. Quite the opposite.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JULY 29, 2022

One example of the incredible change that education can bring to a community is Malaika , a grassroots nonprofit that educates and empowers girls and communities in the Democratic Republic of Congo through a school, a community center, a clean water program, technical classes and and organic farm.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 11, 2009

I have just completed two 2-day trainings of human rights NGOs in the Democratic Republic of Congo. During my visit, I also had an opportunity to meet staff members at the United Nations Mission of the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUC). Tags: Tripathi Kinshasa Martus MONUC ICTJ Goma Congo DRC.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 11, 2008

Via GlobalVoices , information about the ongoing crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where some 1 million people have fled the province of North Kivu. Newsfeed here.). An interesting, and hopefully valuable, effort to mitigate the situation is the "Ushahidi" web site for reporting of incidents of violence and abuse.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 2, 2013

Gorilla Doctors provides life-saving medical care to mountain and Grauer’s gorillas in Rwanda, Uganda, and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Gorilla Doctors :: @ GorillaDoctors. Population Council :: @ Pop_Council.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 20, 2009

Habbo’s InfoBus re: curbing violence against gay teens; developing understanding via the Matthew Shepard Foundation visiting ‘in-world’ or the War Child Int’l foundation partnership to focus in-world on kids impacted by violence in Afghanistan, Iraq, Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda etc.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 18, 2011

An example was the opportunity to feature a video about the lack of treatment available for those living with HIV in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on YouTube’s homepage. Some questions we tackle with include: What happens when our content is taken out of context or context is simply ignored?

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 27, 2011

." - Naomi Natale, One Million Bones Naomi Natale is the founding artist behind One Million Bones , a collaborative art installation designed to recognize the millions of victims and survivors who have been killed or displaced by ongoing genocides and mass atrocities in Sudan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Burma.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

One Million Bones is a collaborative art installation designed to recognize the millions of victims and survivors who have been killed or displaced by ongoing genocides and mass atrocities in Sudan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Burma. Listen: Big Vision Podcast interview (July 23, 2011) 12.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 13, 2011

The head of our group, Patrick Ball, is spending most of this year in the Democratic Republic of Congo, working with the United Nations on a range of human rights issues (of which the DRC has many). Men being trained to use Martus to enter testimonies.Our human rights team is active all over the world.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 17, 2008

Women for Women International supports women survivors of war in conflict and post-conflict areas (Afghanistan, Bosnia, Herzegovina, Democratic Republic of Congo, Iraq, Kosovo, Nigeria, Rwanda, and Sudan). She signed up to sponsor two women after seeing a 60 Minutes segment on rape in Congo , where Women for Women was featured.

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