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Good Magazine Wants You To Do Good!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

San Francisco to teaching reading in Atlanta, to rebuilding homes and lives in the Gulf coast communities. Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America , founded in June 2004, is the nation's first and largest group dedicated to the Troops and Veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The organization works to educate.

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What Are Your 2008 Activist Resolutions?

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Her resolutions include eating local organic food, teaching her students about healthier eating options, and volunteering at a community garden. I recently finished reading A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide by Samantha Power. I really liked this idea so thought I'd post my own: 1.

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Interview with Zainab Salbi, Founder of Women for Women International

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She goes through an intensive training program in an educational track, that teaches her about her rights as a woman in health, economy, society, and politics, among other things. We work in countries like Congo, Rwanda, Sudan, Iraq, Afghanistan, Bosnia, Kosovo, among others. That's the story of Women for Women.

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

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I've worked in the corporate world, I've worked in the political world, I've worked in teaching when I was in grad school. Interestingly, Doe Run has a sister company down in Latin America. Like Mother Teresa talked about how America was rich in money, but poor in spirit. But you know, it teaches you a lot.

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

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I had an ex-Marine who's putting some eco-insulation in my housing unit, come by my house, and he's the one green insulator in the Bay Area, and he -- it turns out -- co-hosted the Green Fest , you know, this eco-business event that happens annually that Global Exchange and Co-op America puts on every year in the winter. It might be teaching.

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The Global Fund for Women: An Interview with Kavita Ramdas

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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. It hasn't happened in Latin America's history. It is not that we aren't seeing the wins. Until then, women had been considered minors under the law.

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