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How Investing In Ongoing Nonprofit Professional Development Keeps Fundraisers On The Ball And Ahead Of The Game

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British children’s rights nonprofit AfriKids sent two of its staff members to a recent International Fundraising Congress in the Netherlands. The money went to improving education for children across Northern Ghana through teacher training and increasing awareness among citizens of the importance of education.

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Youth Programs Benefit from Microsoft Donations

Tech Soup

Speaking of impact, London, England-based Childreach International works in partnership with local communities in the developing world to help improve children’s access to healthcare, education, child rights, and protection. In the past year, Childreach International has impacted the lives of over 70,000 children.

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Empowering Women Citizen Journalists: An Interview with Cristi Hegranes

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The Press Institute for Women in the Developing World is an international nonprofit organization and citizen journalism initiative. Many of our trainees and journalists in Nepal do have children. CH: I was a foreign correspondent in Nepal from 2003 to 2004 and had a really amazing experience in Nepal.

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The Journey of the Spiritual Activist: An Interview with Marisa Handler

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For me, meditation is a practice of sitting down for half an hour every morning, or whatever the case is, and practicing awareness. What that means is that sometimes I start seeing things that I wasn't aware of before in myself, like my own motivations for things. How do we go about getting to that place?

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Philanthropic Leadership: Engaging Board Members As Fundraising Ambassadors

Bloomerang

And then another way we can help build brand awareness for the organization through our role as a board member is to allow the use of your name associated with an organization. So encouraging our board members and our volunteer leaders to engage with us on social media, again, really furthers our brand awareness and our audience as well.

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Bringing Women a Global Voice: Jensine Larsen, World Pulse

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I actually started out with International Studies, and more academic. A woman journalist from Sudan had her story about the flogging of a woman who was wearing pants get picked up, and it made international headlines. They're coming from Nepal, the Philippines, and Bolivia. I've realized that they're very related.

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Girls' Night Out with a Twist: Dining for Women and the Power of Giving Circles

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Marsha Wallace: Dining for Women is an international giving circle, and our mission is to support and empower self-sufficiency for women and girls who live in extreme poverty in developing countries. And most people are not aware of all these kinds of facts, and the struggles that women face. In 2011, we're going to Nepal.

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