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Change.org is Hiring Bloggers for Social Action Blog Network

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Want to create the premier online space for your issue and become a leading voice for social action? Change.org is launching a social action blog network this summer and is currently hiring a team of blogger/editors to help create a movement for change around the major causes of our time. Positions are part-time and paid.

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Not On Our Watch: The Least Depressing Book About Darfur You'll Ever Read

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We want to remove all excuses and impediments to individual action, because such actions--collectively--do make a difference -- Not On Our Watch. I also found it heartening to hear that the US government actually does listen when the public applies pressure. Darfur activism book Don Cheadle John Prendergast

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Mobilizing Donors and Activists in an Overwhelmed World

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On Friday, I was on a "Darfur Activist" conference call produced by ENOUGH , the Genocide Intervention Network , STAND and the Save Darfur Coalition. Anyone could call in and hear an update about developments on the ground in Darfur and Congo, and upcoming legislation, events and campaigns. million nonprofits in the U.S.

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Guest Post by Stacey Monk: Dogooders Won’t Change the World (Alone)

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There’s these kids sitting at the other lunch tables in our global cafeteria. Here’s what’s pissing me off: The reason I have to fight every time to do these stories [like Darfur] is because the truth is that it’s hard to get the majority of Americans…to care. ” (not in video). Doing good isn’t our job, it’s everyone’s. CHRISTOPHER R.

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How Are Your 2008 Activist Resolutions Going?

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Read Darfur Diaries by Aisha Bain, Jen Marlowe and Adam Shapiro. Watched Darfur Now. Need to figure out how to get energized to take action around it. What I've done: Read What is the What by Dave Eggers. Interviewed Janessa Goldbeck of the Genocide Intervention Network. What I've done: I've done so-so with this so far.

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YouTube Launches Nonprofit Program

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YouTube’s 2007/2008 Clinton Global Initiative commitment enables nonprofit organizations (in the U.S. those with 501c3 tax filing status) that register for the YouTube Nonprofit Program to receive a free nonprofit specific YouTube channel where they can upload footage of their work, public service announcements, calls to action and more.

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$100,000 Grant: Polls Still Open in the Peace Primary - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

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Also in the running and campaigning hard are (in alphabetical order) Center for Arms Control and Nonproliferation; Citizens for Global Solutions, Faithful Security; Genocide Intervention Network; Global Green USA; National Religious Campaign Against Torture; and Women’s Action for New Directions.

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