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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 saw for myself that history was unfolding in front of me. In 2008, I raised money to go to Africa to help support the first community access television station opening in Ghana.

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

Have Fun - Do Good

When I sat down to talk with the co-Directors, Melinda Kramer and Amira Diamond, in early March, they had literally just returned from the West African Woman and Water Training in Ghana. You both just came back from the 2010 West African Women and Water Training in Ghana. This is a history in the making. What was that?

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The Global Fund for Women: An Interview with Kavita Ramdas

Have Fun - Do Good

My favorite scene from the movie is these women, all ages, all sizes, going to surround the peace talks in Ghana, which were essentially going nowhere. It is a good thing we are doing this in Women's History Month. This year, 2008, is the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

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