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Raise Your Hand for Girls on October 11, 2012

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The goal is to collect 4 million actions (photos of hands raised, likes on their Facebook campaign page, etc) and present the collective actions to the United Nations Secretary General and the world donor community urging them to put girls’ education as their priority. She graduated from college and is married.

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Target Facebook Challenge: Ten Large Charities Compete for Votes To Divide the $3 Million Pot

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It's called Bullseye Gives, a special Facebook page inviting folks to decide how they should allocate $3 million among ten large institutional charities, including: Parent Teacher Association Feeding America The Salvation Army American Red Cross National Parks Foundation Breast Cancer Research Foundation St.

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Writing for Change Conference: An Interview with Elizabeth Pomada

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I told the conference co-founders, a husband and wife literary agent team, Elizabeth Pomada and Michael Larsen , that I'd help to spread the word about the conference so I interviewed Elizabeth for the Big Vision Podcast. We are both from New York, but felt that California was the right place to be. And we just did.

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I'm Speaking at the Writing for Change Conference in San Francisco

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Here is a little blurb about the Conference from their site: "Writing for Change 2007 is a conference for writers of nonfiction books who believe that it is time for their book to be published. When I interviewed Elizabeth last week for the Big Vision Podcast , she described the publishing process as being like a labyrinth.

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Bryant Terry: Eco-chef, Food Justice Activist, Author of Vegan Soul Kitchen

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He is currently a Fellow in the Food and Society Policy Fellows Program, which is a national project of the W.K. His first book, Grub: Ideas for an Urban Organic Kitchen , which he co-authored with Anna Lappe , won a 2007 Nautilus Award for Social Change. You have a new book coming out, Vegan Soul Kitchen. Kellogg Foundation.

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Solutionary Women: Heddy Nam

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After reading the interview, Heddy has asked that I modify some of her answers. 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. Below is the modified version as of May 24, 2006. Describe the work you do for Amnesty International.

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Mr. Jim Goes to Washington (and New York, and Nairobi, and Seoul, and Kampala, and Boston…)

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

New York Every year, social entrepreneurs and donors (along with a whole lot of other folks) converge on New York City. It’s the week of the United Nations General Assembly and the Clinton Global Initiative. Interviewed several candidates for executive positions at Benetech. And much more… Washington, D.C.

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