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Be Sweet: Creative Products with a Conscience & More Do-Good Gifts

Have Fun - Do Good

Last week I posted about the online fair trade store, Global Girlfriend , here and on BlogHer , and asked readers to post other ideas for do-good gifts. One reader suggested the Amber Chand Collection that features gifts by craftswomen who live in regions of conflict and post-conflict.

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

Have Fun - Do Good

If you'd like to join Lisa on her next Creative Entrepreneur reTREAT in Mexico , click here to view more details. All with a story (sometimes about how the stuff actually made it home) and an unforgettable experience that lives on in the sharing. Full disclosure: I am a member of Lisa's affiliate program).

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Nonprofit Calendars for 2010

Have Fun - Do Good

Cross-posted from BlogHer.com.

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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. 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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Wangari Maathai, Dining for Women & LA

Have Fun - Do Good

Marsha Wallace, the founder of Dining for Women , contacted me after reading some of the posts I had written about Dining for Women here and on BlogHer , and invited my husband and I to be Dining for Women's guest at the event. Dining for Women was one of the evening's sponsors.

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Meet Nicola M. Wells: Social Media As An Online Door Knocking Campaign for Immigrant Rights

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

She has been passionate about the issue of immigrant rights since 2002, when she worked at Casa del Migrantes in Tijuana, Mexico, a shelter for immigrants and deportees. After she left Mexico she worked with refugee communities in Philadelphia and did research on migrant youth at a research center in Chicago. Cross-posted at BlogHer