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Great reads from around the web on May 19th

Amy Sample Ward

Women Deliver » Updates » Winners Announced for the Women Bloggers Deliver Competition – Congratulations to my friend Toyin Ajao! "We are so excited to announce the winners of the “Women Bloggers Deliver&# competition!

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10 Ways Nonprofits Can Use Blogs and Bloggers to Support Their Cause

Have Fun - Do Good

A lot of nonprofit blogs have come on the scene in the year between these events and I feel like it is time to revise and update my "10 Ways" post to include not only ways that nonprofits can use blogs, but also engage bloggers to support their cause. 10 Ways Nonprofit Can Use Blogs and Bloggers to Support Their Cause 1.

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Lisa Sonora Beam, The Creative Entrepreneur: How I Have Fun, Do Good

Have Fun - Do Good

The eleventh guest blogger in my have fun do good series is Lisa Sonora Beam. If you'd like to join Lisa on her next Creative Entrepreneur reTREAT in Mexico , click here to view more details. She is a lifelong artist, and was a therapist working in psychiatric hospitals before she made the leap into advertising (long story).

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Blog for Choice Day 2009

Connection Cafe

This is the fourth annual such event and is meant to organize pro-choice bloggers to write about choice, raise the profile of reproductive rights, and educate their readers about the issue. Individual bloggers sign up and commit to devote at least one blog post on January 22 to the topic of choice.

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The Imperfect Storm, Part 2

Connection Cafe

Author: Guest Blogger. We know of a donor who gives to an orphanage in Mexico that tells its sponsors they are expected to visit at least once a year and stay in touch with the kids they support via email, phone and Facebook. This post was written by Marc Chardon and Hal Williams. That is, if organizations don't change.

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Why Don't We All Know How to Organize Our Communities?

Have Fun - Do Good

Land near their home in the Santa Fe, New Mexico area had been acquired for petroleum drilling exploration. Create a local press and blogger list. * A couple weeks ago my mom told me that they'd heard some disturbing news. The environmental impact, especially to the aquifer, could be devastating.

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Good News! Starbucks Signed an Agreement with Ethiopia

Have Fun - Do Good

One of the campaigners was working with Ethiopian bloggers and asked them to embed the video on their sites, which they did. They contacted supporters in Seattle who were interested in the campaign, as well members of the Ethiopian community, and asked them to show up at the protest. They got 15-20,000 views.