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How Can You Make An Impact?

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." -- President-elect Obama's acceptance speech November 4, 2008 In her post today, Congratulations President-elect Obama: Now, BlogHers, what will YOU do to change America? BlogHer co-founder Lisa Stone asks us to make our own "transition plan," and ask ourselves how are we are each going to help create change in America.

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Should You Quantify Love? Redux 2

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I'm trying to shift myself off the forward movement and into reflection mode around the America's Challenge. I caught up with Jen Lemen's post " To Cambodia With Love " I met Jen at Blogher last summer in a session about Global Women Bloghers. s Giving Challenge , the charity fundraiser sponsored by Parade Magazine.

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NGO/NPO Meme - tagged by Nancy White

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I want to find Nonprofit tech resources beyond the America's borders, I also start searching on Itrainonline , DigitalDivide Network , or Development Gateway ICT section. I probably should stop, but if you want to focus on what women are blogging about in the nonprofit space, check out the blogher ngo/npo blogroll. NGO/NPTECH Web2.0

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Ten Books for Every Nonprofit Professional’s Reading List

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I recently I was the ending keynote for Feeding America’s national conference and David was the opening keynote (although due to an accident his daughter, Jennifer Aaker, a professor at Stanford, delivered his keynote on his behalf). Effective storytelling is the secret sauce of nonprofit fundraising and marketing.

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Fair Trade Certified: An Interview with Paul Rice of TransFair USA

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Of course, because their farms are small and because historically they've gotten a really low price from the local coffee buyers, called coyotes in Latin America, these farmers are all poor. I mean, really small. And in those communities high school is a luxury, so the local school in the local community typically goes through sixth grade.

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Mark Pesce at CUA09 - Think Like a Cloud, Make a Storm, Kill the Tower!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Photo by James Jordan I'm actually in the clouds, flying to California on Virgin America using the (not free) wifi listening to Mark Pesce's keynote via Mike Seyfang delivered the other day at Connecting Up Australia the Nonprofit Technology Conference in Australia (see web site for details). I keynoted the conference last year.

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Solutionary Women: Alli Chagi-Starr, Ilyse Hogue, Melinda Kramer and Reem Rahim

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Interestingly, Doe Run has a sister company down in Latin America. And interestingly, there was a group of women who really had put that on the map as well. And my whole impetus, in terms of what I wanted to express in my message, was that America moves too fast, and I didn't understand what we were running after.

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