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Jen Lemen Raises Over $3,000 in 24 Hours for Rwanda Project

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Georgia Popplewell from Global Voices asked people if they would consider donating their schwag for the Cambodian bloggers conference. During the America's Giving Challenge, when we dropped into 5th place and I thought the race was over, Jen activated her supportive network with this beautiful post, " To Cambodia With Love.

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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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[VIDEO] The Science of Philanthropic Psychology

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Now, in the charity context, the most straightforward way to think about this is how can we love the people who need our help? It could be people who needed help today to help themselves. And they can simply ask supporters, “If you make a donation today, you can help end leprosy. It could be partners.

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What Can I Do About Genocide? An Interview with Janessa Goldbeck

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JG: I had the opportunity to spend some time in Rwanda when I was in college, and what really struck me about that experience was the willingness and openness of the survivors, who are both victims and perpetrators, to heal their country and to move on. JG: I think it may be helpful if I explain how it works. Why didn't the U.S.

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Announcing… 31 New Favorite Nonprofits for 2013!

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MomsRising is a nonprofit grassroots movement working to build a more family-friendly America. Vital Voices :: @ VitalVoices. Vital Voices works with extraordinary women leaders accelerating peace and prosperity in their communities. MomsRising :: @ MomsRising. National Marine Life Center :: @ MarineLifeCtr.

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Women Who Tech Around the World

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” Using a webinar and conference call platform, we were able to bring in participants from San Francisco, Rwanda, Kenya, Algeria, Tunisia, and Egypt. Giselle has been using Razoo to help raise funds for her to make the trip and she still has a way to go before reaching her goal.

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The Global Fund for Women: An Interview with Kavita Ramdas

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They help us by going to visit the groups, by recommending groups to us, and by talking about some of the broader challenges that face women in the particular context that they are in. What are those issues or areas right now that you are seeing really need the most help? Could I make a contribution?"

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