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Save the Children Alternative Gift Catalog: Amazing

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Just adding to the meme of alternative gift giving ideas that Steve Garfield started last week. As with my previous post, this is an open invitation to any shop for a cause or gift the gift of a donation to a charity service or project to leave a comment. What is your favorite alternative gift-giving site or program?

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Geoff Livingston Guest Post: Follow @childfund and Help Feed Children

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

To celebrate, ChildFund International is giving gifts of agricultural love and hope from the organization’s gift catalog for every 200 Twitter followers @childfund. These efforts will directly benefit children in Gambia, Zambia, Kenya and Ethiopia. Vegetable seeds in Ethiopia. A goat for a family farm in Zambia.

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The big startup question on my mind for 2022

TechCrunch

Mobility reporter Rebecca Bellan recently published a nuanced interview with Ample co-founder John de Souza, who was born and raised in Ethiopia. TechCrunch Gift Guide 2021. Gift Guide: 10 really good gadgets that cost less than $100. Gift Guide: The best non-business books for 2021 recommended by VCs. Across the week.

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Go Holiday Shopping with Your Global Girlfriend

Have Fun - Do Good

If you're going to spend that kind of cash, why not give a gift that gives back? Global Girlfriend is an online fair trade store that sells handmade gifts made by women's non-profit programs and cooperatives. I'd love to compile a list of stores with gifts that give back. this holiday season, up from $738.11 last year."

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The Power of Thank You Letters

Connection Cafe

While I received an email thanking me at that time, their purpose was a simple update on a gift I made about 6 months prior to their Water Forward campaign. passed, my mom responded by giving me the most memorable birthday gift of my life: a box of monogrammed stationary. After a few weeks (months?)

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Twitter As Charitable Giving Spreader: A Meta Analysis

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Chris Brogan and 81 other Twitter users helped reached this goal with small gifts in 24 hours. The Well That Twitter Built: On September 18th, Mashable's Twitter followers donated $3,536 to Charity:Water, an initative to build wells in Ethiopia. Paul Young raised an addition $637 through Twitter and shared some of his reflections.

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Know Where Your Coffee Comes From

Have Fun - Do Good

Black Gold tells the story of Tadesse Meskela, the manager of the Oromia Coffee Farmers Co-operative Union in Ethiopia. 67% of Ethiopia's export income is from coffee, so Meskela's story is the story of many Ethiopian farmers. During the film Meskela tries to find buyers who will pay a higher price for his farmers' coffee.