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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?
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.
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.
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."
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?)
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.
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.
Someone remarked that we have invited the “Flower Mic” Finally, each participants receives a certificate, books from a colleague, and a gift of chocolate from San Francisco! I improvised and had participants pass around a flower.
In the early years, we were working in China, Nepal, Cambodia, and Ethiopia, where we now purify water for over 200,000 kids daily. We do this in in urban settings in Asia and Africa, where children live at the intersection of two streets: (1) worst water quality conditions and (2) greatest degrees of poverty.
For the holidays, she has hosted a kindergarten "angel" party where the kids were "angel donors" for families in need, depositing their unwrapped toys and gifts as admittance to the fun. We also had a Christmas tradition where instead of giving each other gifts, we sponsored a family and bought them presents instead.
Ethiopia / $50. Structuring Major Gifts Conference. Structuring Major Gifts Conference. Examine major gift planning in the context of current economic conditions, changes in donor populations and increased competition for the charitable dollar. General / @impactconf. AIDF Africa Summit. AIDF Africa Summit. Feb 21 - 22.
Here's some inspiring stories, tips and resources: Some Inspirational Stories Last week I wrote the Columbus Foundation's recently launhced Match Day 2.0 , a giving stimulus plan created to matching gifts to PowerPhilanthropy organizations and raise $1 million in 48 hours to support local needs in their community.
Whether you want to raise money for clean water in Ethiopia, vaccinations for children in Haiti, or a safe home for a puppy in Mississipi, with a Birthday Cause your friends can give in honor of your special day. Select your Birthday Cause today: Get Started - Learn More. No birthday party meant no one buying presents.
Whether you want to raise money for clean water in Ethiopia, vaccinations for children in Haiti, or a safe home for a puppy in Mississipi, with a Birthday Cause your friends can give in honor of your special day. So, I added some messaging that any amount would be appreciated. Asking for donations in lieu of birthday gifts is not new.
They give you the gifts that keep on giving. Paul to teach them a bit about what goes on in Ethiopia, or Uganda, or wherever their camps are. I want to make sure my year-end gift is enough.” And I think the CEO at that time about passed out because they never had donors before, let alone a million-dollar gift.
Researchers are warning that bottles of "holy water" from a well in Ethiopia could be laced with dangerous bacteria that could cause cholera. The water was taken from a "holy well" called "Bermel Giorgis," near the border between Ethiopia and Sudan.
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