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Can “Viral” Videos Really Create Social Change?

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The 30-minute “Kony 2012” video produced by the nonprofit Invisible Children , which generated over 70M views on YouTube over the past week, has caused a firestorm in the nonprofit community. Since 1986 the LRA has abducted 66K children, and turned them into child soldiers. Government to help capture Kony.

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Interview with Temra Costa, Author of Farmer Jane: Women Changing the Way We Eat

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Temra Costa's book, Farmer Jane: Women Changing the Way We Eat features the stories of over 30 women and how they are changing our food system for the better as farmers, educators, mothers, chefs, businesswomen, and policy wonks. It really begged to be written, all these great stories, and there are hundreds more all over the country.

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On Turning 4, Grit and Imagination Emergencies!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The experiment studied deferred gratification in children by offering one marshmallow to each child and one additional marshmallow if they could resist the temptation of eating the first one for fifteen minutes. The ubiquitous world of Disney is inescapable when you have small children. Fifteen minutes for a four-year-old?!