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NEWS & ANNOUNCEMENTS:
- NextAid's BIDS BUILDS HOPE Auction A Success!
- NextAid’s Director Honored at the African Goodwill Awards
- Help BEERings Build Hope!
- BEATS BUILD HOPE, THE party at WMC2010
- Daughtry Drummer Joey Barnes’ CHANGE Benefits NextAid
- Funk Aid Party w/ Wax Poetics at SXSW
- "Send a Child to School" with the goGogetters Program
- A Successful 2009 World AIDS Day Campaign
- Double Your Donation With GO Campaign
- Make-Up Designory (MUD) Cosmetics gives 100% of Eye Make-Up Purchase Price to NextAid
- dubSpot Records presents "Funk Aid for Africa"
- Planetwize and Nickodemus' "Sun People" Exclusive EP Download
- Digital Bliss Down-tempo Compilation CD Helps NextAid
- Coalition for a Sustainable Africa
- Millennium Development Goals from Unicef
- NextAid 2008 DJ PSA
- Shop for the Cause at We-Care.com
- NextAid selected by Causecast.org
- Putumayo Records "African Dreamland"
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NextAid’s Director Honored at the African Goodwill Awards
NextAid’s co-founder and director, Lauren Segal-Avenna, was honored as an Ambassador of Goodwill at this year’s African Goodwill Awards in Culver City! Congratulations to all of the amazing recipients; thank you for your dedication and commitment to compassionate work that has touched communities all over the globe! Also, a very special thanks to African Focus Inc. for hosted the event and bringing the community together around a message of hope and inspiration. For more information: Newsletter / Website.
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Help BEERings Build Hope!
Green Wave founder, Janine Johnson, has found yet another way to channel her passion and talent for creating eco- conscious ways to affect change in the lives of children, with the creation of the eco-adorable beerings! With the help of TreeSpaceStudio's Amy Tan, Janine has created a unique design especially for NextAid. These playfully chic creations are constructed from recycled beer bottle caps, eco-polyurethane, and come sustainably packaged on an eco-friendly fibered card. 100% of the proceeds go towards the Green Wave Children's Sanctuary at the Kawangware Vision Center. Beerings are only $15! Order your pre-sale beerings today by sending an email w/ subject "Beering Reservation" to greenwavefounder@gmail.com .
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BEATS BUILD HOPE, THE party of the 2010 Winter Music Conference
Beats Build Hope took over the beautiful Shore Club with 3 areas of music on Friday, March 26th, with an amazing lineup of: The Crystal Method, DJ Rap, Barbara Tucker, Mark Farina, Heather, Colette, Ultra Naté, Andy Caldwell, Gene Farris, D:Fuse, Jazzanova, Anané, Chuck Love, Jay-J, Nickodemus, DJ G OV, and more. We thank all of these amazing DJs, artists, and voluteers for donating their time. Also, a very special thanks to the Shore Club, Tomas Ceddia of The Loud Minority, Love Fatigues, SF LovEvolution, Dubspot, and all of the other wonderful partners for helping make our benefit for NextAid, LIFEbeat, Green Wave and SOIL, a great success! For complete details visit the official event page. View photos from the party at Nitevibe / Eventvibe.
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Daughtry Drummer Joey Barnes’ Record CHANGE Benefits NextAid
Joey Barnes, drummer for award-winning rock band Daughtry, has released a solo EP aptly entitled “Change”: an inspiring musical reflection of the philanthropic view of the artist and his experiences during his recent trip to Africa during “Idol Gives Back.” Humbled by his experience, Joey decided that a substantial portion from "Change" would go to help children in Africa, believing that the “inspiration should be the beneficiary.” The gracious rockstar and his label, Nascent Republic Records, have named NextAid the beneficiary. Experience the power of music today at joeybarnes.bandcamp.com.
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Funk Aid Party w/ Wax Poetics at SXSW Benefitting NextAid
The Dubspot + Wax Poetics Funk Aid Party, presented by Puma, Serato, & Avi
d/M-Audio, saw a critical mass of musical talent turn a showcase into musical celebration. Artists from across the country, styles of old and new, musicians of many generations, all joined together to help raise money for projects helping African children in Haiti and Africa, while creating one of the best parties during SXSW. The phat line-up included Brownout, DJ OBaH, Keys N Krates, Rich Medina, Grimy Styles, Jovi Rockwell, DJ Smiles Davis, Chico Mann, Chicken George, Ocote Soul Sounds, J.Boogie, and Black Dynamite Sound Orchestra.
Read full recap here. Event details / Photos Photo credit: Yaggiphotography.com.
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"Send a Child to School" with the goGogetters Program
NextAid has partnered with the well-respected South African organization, loveLife, to be the beneficiary of NextAid's "Send a Child to School" campaign. goGogetters is a loveLife program to support the many grandmothers (gogos) who dedicate their old-age years to the wellbeing of orphans and vulnerable children. All it takes is $75 to enable one child's education for a year. This donation will ensure that a child is equipped with a school uniform, shoes and school supplies all critical to a child s education, especially as many orphans and vulnerable children drop out of school due to embarrassment when they do not have these items. Make a donation. Learn more at the loveLife’s goGogetter page.
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Successful World AIDS Day Campaign 2009
NextAid’s annual awareness and fundraising campaign around World AIDS Day raised $12,000+ for NextAid’s projects on the ground in Kenya and South Africa. The campaign kicked off on 11/25 in San Francisco and ran till 12/26 in Honolulu! Totaling 19 events in LA, SF, NYC, Phoenix, Baltimore, Boston, Honolulu, Vancouver, Omaha, Philly and Charlotte, NextAid thanks all of our generous supporters and partners. Learn more about the campaign at our World AIDS Day Events Page.
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Double Your Donation With GO Campaign
GO Campaign is once again generously matching donations made to KSCYP till February 28th! With less than $6,000 needed to reach the first fundraising goal, this is the time to make your dollar count. NextAid and GO Campaign are jointly raising funds to build a new eco-friendly workshop and multipurpose facility (Kawangware Vision Center) to help expand this inspiring youth group’s gift-bag making micro-business. The first phase of the project is already underway with the funds raised through NextAid and GO Campaign last year! The youth skills training program to manufacture eco-bricks, roof tiles and other necessary materials to assist in the construction of the facility is only the beginning of efforts to create lasting change in this slum bordering Nairobi, Kenya. Please visit the GO Campaign and click the orange “Quick Donation” button. Then, help us spread the word about this amazing opportunity!
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Make-Up Designory (MUD) gives 100% of Eye Colors Palette Sales to benefit Red Rhino Orphanage Project
Earlier in 2009, NextAid partnered with the Red Rhino Orphanage Project (RROP) to help fund the construction of two homes for orphaned children in a poverty-stricken town located 25 miles southeast of Nairobi. Each of the timber-framed homes will provide long-term shelter, food and medical needs for 16 local orphans. Believing that everyone deserves a beautiful future, MUD introduced a limited edition palette of 4 MUD eye colors to help fund the construction of these homes by generously donating 100% of the sales. There are less than 200 palettes left, buy yours today! Spread the word. Download the one-sheet PDF here and banners here.
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Dubspot Records presents "Funk Aid for Africa"
Dubspot, New York City's one-of-a-kind electronic music production and DJ training institute, has undertaken its first nationwide philanthropic project with a series of charitable mix CDs. The first one, Funk Aid for Africa, benefits NextAid! An inspired collage of Funk, Soul, and Latin tunes created by DJ OBaH, it features songs by twenty different artists including Ticklah, Ursula Rucker, King Britt, J. Boogie, Chico Mann, The Lions, Ocote Soul Sounds, Nappy G, and Pleasuremaker. 100% of the proceeds will go towards a modest "green" sports facility at the YWAV Community Center in Dennilton, South Africa. Buy it today! www.funkaid.com
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Planetwize and Nickodemus' "Sun People" Exclusive EP Download
Planetwize, a new media startup highlighting global culture and sustainability changing the world one music download at a time, rolled out the alpha launch of its new music service, Actiontrax, offering "Music Downloads that Support the Planet." Every Actiontrax album sold supports a different cause with a portion of the proceeds. Downloads of Nickodemus' latest EP "Sun People," will support NextAid. "Sun People makes the best of every situation. When that sun peaks out in the sky, it's another day to feel and do something positive" Nickodemus says. Purchase @ http://planetwize.com/flex/index.html#op=music&id=159. Other CDs that benefit NextAid are Fela Kuti's "The Best of the Black President" and and Lisa Shaw's "FREE."
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Digital Bliss Down-tempo Compilation CD Helps NextAid
The down-tempo compilation of the year, Digital Bliss Volume 2, showcases talented female producers, vocalists and instrumentalists from all genres of electronic music. An exotic complexion of haunting melodies, creative loops, lush digital production and poetically charged vocal journeys through electronic landscapes featuring tracks from: Costanza, Divasonic, Celeste Lear, Weather Pending, Auradrone, Return To Mono. A portion of sales from this compilation goes to NextAid. Preview & Purchase @ CD Baby
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Coalition for a Sustainable Africa
 NextAid is a founding member of the Coalition for a Sustainable Africa (CSAfrica), a collaboration of nonprofit organizations based in Los Angeles and all committed to Africa. The coalition’s work focuses on providing eradication of poverty and hunger, education, orphan care, gender equality, improvement of child quality of life, general health and HIV/AIDS care, sustainable design and implementation, social justice and stakeholder partnerships, land use rights, eco-village development and application, and development of community-based economics. For more info, please visit www.csafrica.org.
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Millennium Development Goals from Unicef
In 2000, nearly 200 leaders from around the world adopted the Declaration and committed themselves to achieving a set of eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The ultimate objective of this agreement is to make the world a better place for all by the year 2015. Read more
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NextAid 2008 DJ PSA
Watch world renowned artists such as Louie Vega, Miguel Migs, DJ Colette and more speak out about the AIDS crisis and give a voice to African children orphaned by AIDS. sponsored by DubSpot NYC
Click here (YouTube)
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Shop for the Cause with We-Care.com
 Everything you ever need to buy, you can do through the recently launched online "mall" called We-Care.com. This is an incredible way to support NextAid without coming out of pocket in time or money! A percentage of every purchase goes to NextAid. Please spread the word and ask your friends, colleagues and business contacts to shop at the 600+ retailers and service providers and help raise money with no effort! Percentages vary with each store. Check out nextaid.we-care.com. We are We-Care.com's featured non-profit for the month!
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Causecast.org launches with NextAid
NextAid was selected along with only 25 other organizations to be part of the launch of Causecast! Causecast is a powerful online social medium that connects nonprofits, leaders, brands and individuals to those who want to make a positive impact on the world. The site empowers and entertains using original content and it - most importantly - inspires people to get involved with the issues they want to support in the ways they want to support them. Join Causecast now!
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Putumayo Records "African Dreamland" Benefits NextAid (Release date: April 29)
NextAid is honored to be affiliated with Putumayo Records. Putumayo Kids presents "African Dreamland," the fourth release in their successful dreamland series features enchanting and calming African songs for relaxation and sweet dreams. Featuring artists like Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Chinowiso, Mapumba, and more. Click on the CD cover graphic above to hear samples of this beautiful music. A portion of Putumayo's proceeds from the sale of this CD will be donated to NextAid. Check out the ecard
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