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Build Communities to Enhance Your Fundraising Campaigns

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The organization and challenge: The Catholic Medical Mission Board (CMMB) in New York City was challenged with a name and brand that was not remembered or inspiring to its constituencies and communities. She serves on the board of directors and as treasurer of Swish , a New York City–based gay-straight alliance.

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Second Life Education Programs in NY Times, Goes Open Source, and other tidbits

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Over the weekend, the New York Times ran an article about education programs in Second Life. Nesson describes it on his blog: I n the final week of the class we will doing a first-of-its-kind Second Life event. Linden Labs in our new courtroom on Berkman Island. We will be holding a moot trial of Bragg v.

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Writing for Change Conference: An Interview with Elizabeth Pomada

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We are both from New York, but felt that California was the right place to be. We're telling people to, of course, bring sweaters, because it's San Francisco, but we're also telling them to bring their own refillable plastic bottles and we're going to give them Hetch Hetchy 2007, that's San Francisco water. And we just did.

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Solutionary Women: Heddy Nam

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When I returned to the US, I founded the USA chapter in New York City with long-time Never Again member, Marian Hodgkin from the UK. To that end, we recently held a conference at Columbia University called “Teaching About Conflict, Building Towards Peace: A Comparative Forum.” I also grew up with domestic violence in my family.

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Guest Post by Heather McLeod Grant: Reflections on the Personal Democracy Forum

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This past week, I had the opportunity to attend the Personal Democracy Forum in New York – a conference about all things digital and democracy – now in its sixth year. However, there were astonishingly few nonprofits or foundations present at PDF (unless you count academics from universities).

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The Global Fund for Women: An Interview with Kavita Ramdas

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She has been the recipient of many awards, including Fast Company's 2007 Social Capitalist Award, and the League of Women Voters' Women Who Could Be President Award. This year, 2008, is the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. -Kavita Ramdas, President and CEO, Global Fund for Women.

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