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Behind the Scenes: America Supporting Americas

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As you gear up to BBQ hop today, spend some time thinking about the brave folks who lost their lives protecting our country. Here’s her interview with Connection Café: CC: What’s your elevator pitch about what America Supporting Americans does? Author: Emily Goodstein. Yes, I am feeling patriotic at the moment.

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Guest post by Brian Reich: GamesThatGive - You Play. We Donate. Charities Win.

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I'm not sure if that was the first game that gave and there are probably others since that time. GamesThatGive charges sponsors to advertise in the games, and 70% of that advertising revenue goes directly to the charity that you’re playing for. - Feeding America. Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans Association. Do Something.

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What Are Your 2008 Activist Resolutions?

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"[S]top thinking about how crazy the times are, and start thinking about what the crazy times demand."-- Seth Godin A couple weeks ago blogger Latoya Peterson posted her 2008 Activist Resolutions on Racialicious. I recently finished reading A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide by Samantha Power.

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Interview with Zainab Salbi, Founder of Women for Women International

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The way we do that is by asking every single woman around the world to sponsor one woman at a time by sending her $27 a month, along with a letter to start a communication link between the two women. We work in countries like Congo, Rwanda, Sudan, Iraq, Afghanistan, Bosnia, Kosovo, among others. You get her picture.

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See What’s Out There » Blog Archive » Gift Catalogue – Obama Style

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In his email he tells me that they have opened up their budgets and now I can sponsor a specific aspect of their Iowa campaign. 750 “Turning the Page in Iraq&# mail pieces in Davenport $1,100.00 The idea is to allow people to buy the gift of helping by putting a specific dollar value on certain nonprofit activities.

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

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I got involved in some of the anti-globalization work at that time and my group, Art and Revolution, was doing a lot of education and outreach through dance and giant puppets and theater and doing a lot of tours to mobilize people to come to Seattle.

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The Global Fund for Women: An Interview with Kavita Ramdas

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It's long, but I hope you'll take time during your coffee or lunch break to read, or listen to her inspiring words. If you compare that to the budgets that we spend in just one day on fighting a war in Iraq, or the cost of an F16 fighter jet, you get some sense of how inordinately skewed those are.

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