Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

One of them was charity: water , a non-profit bringing safe, clean drinking water to people in developing nations that had launched a September Birthday campaign. They asked everyone born in September to give up birthday presents and ask their friends and family for donations to build water wells in Ethiopia instead.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 17, 2006

According to a recent article in Muncie, Indiana's Star Press , "the National Retail Federation expects the average consumer to spend $791.10 The creators of Global Girlfriend's merchandise come from all over the world: Brazil, Ethiopia, India, Indonesia, Nepal, Nicaragua, South Africa, Thailand, the United States and Vietnam.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Of these companies, 40% have at least one female co-founder, and the founders represent more than 70 nationalities. Marie Nielsen, founder of a paper recycling company in Ethiopia called Penda Paper Recycling, is a partner at the firm. To date, Antler has invested in and helped build over 250 companies.

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Tableau

DECEMBER 28, 2020

This is the time to lead with transformative solidary, focus on equity, and really redesign the nation.”. The United Nations World Food Programme—which became a Nobel Peace Prize Laureate this year—has been contending with increased need globally. “We are no longer at the level of just doing project-based work,” Kirschenbaum says.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 3, 2025

Coffee’s history in South Sudan Unlike neighboring Ethiopia or Uganda, oil-rich South Sudan has never been known as a coffee-producing nation. Experts say excelsa will have to be shown to be practical at a much larger scale to bridge the gap in the market caused by climate change.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 5, 2006

I have to admit that I had never heard of UNIFEM (United Nations Developing Fund for Women) until I read an article about Nicole Kidman in Ladies Home Journal while on jury duty--she is one of their Goodwill Ambassadors. For those of you who haven't heard of UNIFEM either, it is the women's fund at the United Nations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2008

charity: water is a non-profit bringing safe, clean drinking water to people in developing nations, has launched a September Birthday campaign. million and build 333 wells in Ethiopia. And, while I'm on the topic of creative ways to support projects in the Africa. They hope to raise $1.5

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Tableau

DECEMBER 28, 2020

This is the time to lead with transformative solidary, focus on equity, and really redesign the nation.”. The United Nations World Food Programme—which became a Nobel Peace Prize Laureate this year—has been contending with increased need globally. “We are no longer at the level of just doing project-based work,” Kirschenbaum says.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2022

The ample optimism in Nigeria’s tech community and belief that better days are ahead are unsurprising, despite questions around investors’ due diligence and the eyebrow-raising valuations of some of the nation’s startups. Yesterday, the accelerator graduated its first startup batch featuring its newly revamped terms.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 21, 2014

From local athletes and community members in Boston it quickly became a national movement. Before the age of computers and social media, the broadcasting of live imagery from Ethiopia culminated in Live Aid, one of the most successful charity events at that time.

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Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

It encourages engagement , either on the post or in reaction to it, such as National Trust’s #NTchallenge. Ecosia, a nonprofit search engine which uses its revenue to plant trees , is currently planting trees in Ethiopia. Content that tells a story and creates a personal connection. Let’s explore an example.

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Whole Whale

JUNE 19, 2024

In the below example, Amnesty International joined other NGOs and diaspora organizations to advocate for humanitarian access to the Tigray region of Ethiopia. The #hashtag is short, descriptive, and includes the ask The tweet targets the person who is most likely to be able to change the situation, Prime Minister of Ethiopia Abiy Ahmed Ali.

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NTEN

JANUARY 30, 2013

One of the examples in the Gates letter highlights this risk: Ethiopia’s recent effort to monitor the progress of its immunization program is a good example of learning from data and—the hardest part—using data to improve delivery of the right solutions. Ethiopia could have ignored this conflict and reported the most favorable data.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

Like Marion Conway, I was struck by this photo of him pointing to data handwritten on the walls = tracking immunization records from a rural health clinic in Ethiopia. A decade ago, there was no official record of a child’s birth or death in rural Ethiopia.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

More than 600 Chinese nationals were repatriated last week. Earlier, some 260 people from 20 countries, including Ethiopia, Brazil, and the Philippines, crossed from Myanmar into Thai custody. Thailand has cut off electricity, internet, and gas supplies to several areas in Myanmar hosting scam centers along the border.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Other countries, such as Ethiopia, may not even have the company’s community standards translated into all of its official languages. Among the disparities: Facebook lacked misinformation classifiers in Myanmar, Pakistan, and Ethiopia, countries designated at highest risk last year.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2022

Prior to Zenysis, he worked as a diplomat with the United Nations. The big data company has provided its software to partners and governments in Ethiopia, Rwanda, South Africa, Zambia, Brazil, Vietnam, Mozambique and Pakistan. But despite that, Zenysis’s data platform and the government’s vaccine campaign provided a positive outcome.

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The Verge

MAY 20, 2020

National Geographic took away this year’s most awards, 15 total, with wins for its science podcasts, travel videos, and photos on social media, among other things. Webby Award and Webby People’s Voice Award for Magazine : National Geographic. Webby People’s Voice Award for Law : Urban Justice Center by Superunion.

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