Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

Marianne Elliot has created a new online course, 30 Days of Courage , "for people who want to step out of their comfort zone, through the small acts of daily bravery that add up to a courageous life." Full disclosure: I'm involved with most of the people and projects I mentioned personally and/or professionally.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 11, 2007

Good Magazine as its tagline says is for "people who give a damn" and describes itself as a publishing platform to "change the world." Hands On Network brings people together to strengthen communities through meaningful volunteer action. people on where their food comes from and how our food choices affect.

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Global Giving

APRIL 28, 2016

We tend to block out these everyday noises in our normal life, but you will be surprised how loud and obvious they can be on film. It also will enable you to turn your clips into a video that other people can seamlessly watch. ” Also, add the Twitter handle of organizations and influential people who are likely to be interested.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2014

When people know how they''re supposed to contribute, and what their contribution means, then they are much more likely to contribute effectively. In a football game, as in life, there are always going to be circumstances and events beyond your control. My coach, Barry Alvarez, used to yell "know your role." It certainly did for me.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

In Uganda, a group of young people made incredible, heartfelt postcards filled with glitter and cut up magazine pictures to send to women in the Congo. The more people who know about Traveling Postcards the better! We are also funding very special after school art classes in Afghanistan through our partnership with Trust In Education.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 19, 2006

Betty Christiansen's book, Knitting for Peace: Make the World a Better Place One Stitch at a Time , captures 28 stories of people and organizations who are using knitting to comfort, empower and heal. Last week I wrote about my Favorite Do-Good Books of 2006. This one definitely tops my list, and I don't even knit. Book Cover from Harry N.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

While my objective was to make positive change, when I came at it from a place that was angry, I saw - I think this has been visible to many people who have worked in social change movements - that my anger was not growing the movement. It wasn't bringing people toward us. Why do people who are not chosen end up out in the cold?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Because without art our children’s minds will not grow to comprehend life beyond the obvious. Because life begins after high school and it really does get better. Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America. Because our veterans have earned their benefits and the right to a better life after the battlefield.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 20, 2011

Because without art our children’s minds will not grow to comprehend life beyond the obvious. Because life begins after high school and it really does get better. Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America. Because our veterans have earned their benefits and the right to a better life off the battlefield.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 12, 2013

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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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 19, 2010

She is currently writing a memoir about her life as a UN peacekeeper in Afghanistan. All I’ve ever wanted from my life was to do good. But my experience has always been that I do the most good when I am doing what I love with people I love. You can follow her on Twitter at @zenpeacekeeper.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

I love referring people to you. And I’m guessing people want me to pipe down. I mean, who doesn’t want more time and more money and more people and more skills and more expertise and more influence, right? So more than 80% of all this money that’s donated to charities comes from people, comes from people.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

How the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America is using the web to bring back together their band of brothers and sisters. The Tools Don’t Create Strong or Weak Ties, Stories and People Do. There are stories that people want to share and stories that people want to hear. The examples are there, too.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 13, 2009

This is my second year as a "sister," which means that I pay $27 a month to support one woman for a year while she goes through a program to help her rebuild her life after war. We work in countries like Congo, Rwanda, Sudan, Iraq, Afghanistan, Bosnia, Kosovo, among others. That's the story of Women for Women. We will lose our success.

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Care2

MARCH 7, 2011

We'll show you how Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA), a national non-profit, non-partisan group supporting our nation's newest generation of veterans has established a multi-year partnership with Miller High Life, the San Diego Padres, and celebrities that support their mission. When: Saturday March 12 11:00 AM.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 19, 2007

Here is a small excerpt from Honorata's story from the Women for Women International site : "It was in 2002 that the world turned upside down and Honorata lost the signs of a "true and nice life" that she and her husband had built. Reunited, she began to rebuild their life." She was captured and tortured by the armed militias.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 3, 2005

I love listening to Barack Obama's podcasts because he gives me hope that there is at least one person in the US government who is reasonable, sane, intelligent and truly cares about people as humans, not just as voters who can keep him in or out of office. What a great tool for young people (and adults!) who learn my listening.

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