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5 Organizations To Support On World Refugee Day

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In June of 2018, this mandate feels more pressing than ever, as thousands of families seeking asylum are torn apart and children are held in cages at the U.S. Their model of empowerment amplifies the voices of refugee communities, allowing them to act as their own champions. border, all during the ongoing Syrian refugee crisis.

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Traveling Postcards: Interview with Founder, Caroline Lovell

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." ~ Caroline Lovell, Founder, Traveling Postcards Traveling Postcards facilitates the creation of handmade art postcards that are hand delivered all over the world to bringing awareness and voice to women and girls whose lives have suffered from isolation, violence, or repression. Honestly I think every postcard is a success story.

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Juneteenth Resources

Media Cause

The Legal Defense Fund (LDF) is America’s premier legal organization fighting for racial justice. . National Urban League —The National Urban League is a historic civil rights organization dedicated to economic empowerment in order to elevate the standard of living in historically underserved urban communities. Moonlight (Movie).

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Announcing… 31 New Favorite Nonprofits for 2013!

Nonprofit Tech for Good

That said, in 2012 I had the opportunity to travel to Africa and Asia and from those travel experiences three themes emerged that inspired the selection of this year’s nonprofits: 1) Women’s and girls empowerment; 2) Conservation of wildlife and wild lands; and 3) Access to medical care. Vital Voices :: @ VitalVoices.

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Off the Mat, Into the World: An Interview with Seane Corn

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SC: I'd started working with an organization called YouthAIDS which provides services and products to children worldwide who are affected by the HIV/AIDS crisis. We wanted to encourage them to find their voice, and to become leaders in their own right in their own local community. You shouldn't beat your wives and your children."

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Alli Chagi-Starr, Art in Action/Ella Baker Center, Podcast Interview Transcription

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I really wanted to support people to be on the mic whose voices are often silenced in our society, and the people who are most impacted by poverty and environmental racism and some of those things we've talked about. Is it children and literature? So we're bringing a lot of elements together, the innerpersonal the activist.

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The Global Fund for Women: An Interview with Kavita Ramdas

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They wanted to create a literacy program for themselves because now there was a school where their children could go to school, but they felt embarrassed that they couldn't support their children because they themselves were illiterate. Women and their children are disproportionately victims of outside violence as well.

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