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

Have Fun - Do Good

Most of Be Sweet's products are made by artisans who work in job creation programs in South Africa. You can find a store near you that sells Be Sweet products here , and if you are a knitter, they've posted a free pattern.

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

Have Fun - Do Good

In 2000, she realized that she could use her marketing and advertising superpowers for good, and founded Digital Hive EcoLogical Design , the first communications firm to specialize in promoting green and social products and enterprises. Lisa Sonora Beam, The Creative Entrepreneur: How I Have Fun, Do Good Buy art from artists.

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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