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[Book Interview] Nonprofit Example of Social Media Excellence: Women for Women International

Nonprofit Tech for Good

A lot of my to-do’s for next year regard sharing more of the amazing media assets we receive from HQ staffers who travel to the field, engaging our supporters by encouraging them to share their stories of sponsoring a woman through our programs and improving the way we share information about policy issues and current events.

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

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April 8 Watch the HBO special, The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo. After the Global Week for Dafur has passed, you can continue to follow anti-genocide news, policy and campaigns on the ENOUGH Project's Report feed , and the STAND , Genocide Intervention Network , and Save Darfur blogs.

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The Move On Model: Inciting Visitor Social Action

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Sometimes, the desired visitor actions were hazy, represented by a general principle like “diversity;” other times, the actions were specific extensions of advocacy or policy espoused by the institution. The Congo Gorilla Forest , is a special exhibition produced by the Wildlife Conservation Society at the Bronx Zoo.

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Empowering Refugees: Interview with Kjerstin Erickson of FORGE

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Erickson founded FORGE (Facilitating Opportunities for Refugee Growth and Empowerment) in 2003 when she was a 20 year-old junior studying public policy at Stanford University. He ran into Congo. He was there for about a month, and then war in Congo was breaking out. It had been bombed. He had no idea where his family went.

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Online Fundraising Site: How To Create A High-Performing Fundraising Website

CauseVox

Source: Casa Congo, School for Conservation). Keep in mind that each company sets their own policy. In fact, 80% of the top grossing campaigns through CauseVox use visual storytelling to showcase their cause and crush their fundraising goal. Need some inspiration? Here’s a couple examples pulled from recent CauseVox campaigns.

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The Mismeasure of War

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

A guest Beneblog by By Anita Gohdes, Megan Price, and Patrick Ball Several media organizations including Reuters , Foreign Policy and New Scientist covered the January 21 release of the 2009 Human Security Report (HSR) entitled, “The Shrinking Cost of War.” Tags: IRC mortality human rights Congo HSR warfare. Quite the opposite.

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Announcing… 31 New Favorite Nonprofits for 2013!

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Gorilla Doctors provides life-saving medical care to mountain and Grauer’s gorillas in Rwanda, Uganda, and the Democratic Republic of Congo. The Population Council conducts research worldwide to improve policies, programs, and products in three areas: HIV and AIDS; poverty, gender, and youth; and reproductive health.