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Are Crowd Funding Platforms the New Patrons of Independent Media?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In 2008, she asked for advice about raising money to go to Africa to help support the first community access television station opening in Ghana. I am currently raising funds for a story that I believe needs to be told about the 2011 people’s uprising in Madison, Wisconsin. January 21.

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Nedspace Co-Working Space in Portland, Oregan will send three Cambodians to college if.

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I have used social media to help raise the money for her tuition through the Sharing Foundation in 2007 and 2008. A group of 30 people chipped in and Leng Sopharath went off to college. I got into social media infused fundraising by accident as an act of reciprocity and human kindness! . What could be better than that?

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Women's Earth Alliance: Co-Directors Melinda Kramer and Amira Diamond

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billion people are without clean water. More than half of those people are women and girls. What we heard was that our colleagues in Africa really needed support around water. MK: So, we just returned from Ghana in West Africa where we convened the 2010 West African Women and Water Training. Her name is Solame.

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Arts Activist Naomi Natale and The One Million Bones Project

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." - Naomi Natale, One Million Bones Naomi Natale is the founding artist behind One Million Bones , a collaborative art installation designed to recognize the millions of victims and survivors who have been killed or displaced by ongoing genocides and mass atrocities in Sudan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Burma.

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Off the Mat, Into the World: An Interview with Seane Corn

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Off the Mat, Into the World is an educational, experiential and motivational process for people interested in conscious activism and service. I realized I had a platform where, for whatever reason, people would pay attention to me. It should be about joy, on every level." --Seane Corn, co-Founder, Off the Mat, Into the World.