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Traveling Postcards: Interview with Founder, Caroline Lovell

Have Fun - Do Good

." ~ Caroline Lovell, Founder, Traveling Postcards Traveling Postcards facilitates the creation of handmade art postcards that are hand delivered all over the world to bringing awareness and voice to women and girls whose lives have suffered from isolation, violence, or repression. What is the path that brought you to this work?

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Do What You Can: National Week of Action for Darfur April 6-13

Have Fun - Do Good

I just have to do what I can. " -- Jerry Fowler, Executive Director of the Save Darfur Coalition , during an interview on the Voices on Genocide Prevention Podcast. April 8 Watch the HBO special, The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo. I focus on the fact that I don't have to solve it. I don't have to solve the problem.

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Bringing Women a Global Voice: Jensine Larsen, World Pulse

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"I would wake up in the middle of the night and still hear their voices. I just had to take that chance." - Jensine Larsen Jensine Larsen is the Founder and CEO of World Pulse , a global media and communication network devoted to bringing women a global voice. We unite those voices to accelerate change.

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Citizen Tech: Social Media in Disaster Response

Amy Sample Ward

Since then, the platform (which is open source ) has been modified for use in South Africa (mapping xenophobic violence), DR Congo , Vote Report India (to monitor the recent local elections) and more. This proved to the Ushahidi team that their tool would be valuable to communities around the world. Thousands of reports were placed via SMS.

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Empowering Women Citizen Journalists: An Interview with Cristi Hegranes

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CH: You know it is funny; it actually didn't start out as a women-centered initiative, but the more research I did about creating global training sites and free media enterprises in these developing countries, training women just makes the most sense. Our age ranges in all of our global training sites range from 19 to 56.

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An Amazing NpTech Social Media Link Buffet: Take Your Pick!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NMC Future Symposium explore applications of techology that could impact issues of global importance over next five years or more. Global Voices Bloggers Mentor Others. It's called Why Congo Matters. Susan Tenby from TechSoup shares her notes from the Unconference. What was most sexy?

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Announcing… 31 New Favorite Nonprofits for 2013!

Nonprofit Tech for Good

10×10 is global action campaign with a film as its centerpiece.Their message is simply this: Educate girls and you can change the world. amfAR, The Foundation for AIDS Research is dedicated to ending the global AIDS epidemic through innovative research. Vital Voices :: @ VitalVoices. 10×10 :: @ 10x10Act.