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Great reads from around the web on June 16th

Amy Sample Ward

Junction49 - Junction49 want to challenge the negative perception that young people don't volunteer in traditional ways anymore. The site has become a place for young people to showcase the work they are doing to make a difference. They do this by giving them the chance to do something they believe in, when and how they want.

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Jon Husband, Guest Post: The New Realities of Engagement – Stories That Drive Action Planning and Implementation

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Outlined in the brief article below is a new way of using the Web and web services to gather peoples’ stories – anecdotes, video clips, podcasts, blog posts and all sorts of other snippets – and help not-for-profit organizations move into action planning based on the “raw material” of what people are saying and talking about.

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The Last Blogpotomac: A New Community Rises from the Ashes

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I'm writing this post from 30,000 feet aboard Virgin America as I fly back to California from a whirlwind week on the East Coast. There was food and drink and then everyone got to say a few words about why the people, conference, and community mattered to them. Flickr Photo by Ghbrett. Rising from the ashes, will be nonprofit2.0

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Martin Luther King Day - Let Freedom Ring

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Amazingly powerful insights on America and our role building this nation. -- Martin Luther King Day, 2010 Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. By holding a mirror to the ideals of America, King forced America to confront the question who do we mean by all men ?

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Interview with Zainab Salbi, Founder of Women for Women International

Have Fun - Do Good

Whatever all the metrics of success that people use to measure themselves; the day we lose our love, and our authenticity and sincerity towards the mission of the organization, we will lose much more than that. They are not people who have never seen pain and have not triumphed from it. We will lose our success. Every single one.

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Kevin Danaher of Global Exchange Talks about the Global Citizen Center

Have Fun - Do Good

Kevin Danaher is the co-founder of the nonprofit Global Exchange which co-sponsors the Green Festivals with Co-op America. I am a co-founder of Global Exchange, which was founded by myself and two other people, Medea Benjamin, my wife, and Kirsten Moller who has been the Executive Director of Global Exchange since we started in 1988.

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