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Traveling Postcards: Interview with Founder, Caroline Lovell

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How can Have Fun, Do Good readers get involved with Traveling Postcards? Traveling Postcards workshops are easy and fun for everyone. We are also funding very special after school art classes in Afghanistan through our partnership with Trust In Education. First of all, you can make a postcard! We have come a long way!

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Courage, Leadership, Grandmothers, Half The Sky and The Mission List

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My in-box was so full of have fun, do good books, films, events and classes to share with you I decided to gather them all into one post. Grandmother Power Photo journalist Paola Gianturco (who I interviewed for the Big Vision Podcast in 2007 ) has a new book out, Grandmother Power: A Global Phenomenon.

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The Journey of the Spiritual Activist: An Interview with Marisa Handler

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Below is an edited transcript from a September 5th phone interview with Marisa for the Big Vision Podcast. India is next to Pakistan, which is right next to Afghanistan, and the US had just gone to war in Afghanistan. Loyal to the Sky received a Nautilus Book Award for world changing books.

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Women of Color Resource Center: An Interview with Anisha Desai

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The following is an edited transcript of an interview I did with her on March 25th, 2008 for the Big Vision Podcast. Desai came to the Women of Color Resource Center from a Deputy Director role at United for a Fair Economy. She has co-authored publications on fair taxation, housing and the racial wealth divide.

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Favorite Do-Good Books of 2006

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My friend, Ilyse Hogue , introduced me to Anna this summer, and I had the privilege of interviewing her for my podcast. We got to talking, and she told me about a book she wrote about the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan , an underground organization working for women's rights in Afghanistan.

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Zen Peacekeeper, Marianne Elliott, Shares How She Has Fun, Does Good

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One of the reasons I keep this blog is to help me figure out how to have fun, and do good, and o ne of the ways I learn is by example, so I've asked a handful of bloggers from my Have Fun, Do Good blogroll to share how they have fun and do good. She is currently writing a memoir about her life as a UN peacekeeper in Afghanistan.

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Zen Under Fire: Big Vision Podcast Interview with Marianne Elliott

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Trained as a lawyer, Marianne helped develop human rights strategies for the governments of New Zealand and Timor-Leste, has worked as a Policy Advisor for Oxfam, and spent two years working in human rights in the Gaza Strip prior to her time in Afghanistan, where she served in the United Nations mission (2005-2007). Big Vision Podcast'

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