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11 Holiday Gift Programs That Benefit Nonprofits and Make the World A Better Place :: 2011 Edition

Nonprofit Tech for Good

As a group or as an individual, CARE Packages can help send girls in Afghanistan to school for a year, or help expectant mothers in Peru safely deliver. It’s fun and you’ll be bringing hope to girls and women around the world. [ Send a CARE Package ].

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Reflections from Networked Nonprofit Workshop for Latin American NGOs

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

We also looked at a campaign strategy developed by the office in Peru called Nofilter and looked at ways to incorporate some of the takeaways from the Networked Nonprofit workshop. And because it was National Tequila day , when the workshop was done, we went out dancing and I got an education in Latin American dance movements.

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Traveling Postcards: Interview with Founder, Caroline Lovell

Have Fun - Do Good

How can Have Fun, Do Good readers get involved with Traveling Postcards? Traveling Postcards workshops are easy and fun for everyone. Education, healthcare, violence, lack of economic resources, trafficking, to name just a few. We are also planning a trip to Peru! First of all, you can make a postcard! Learn more!

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Interview with My Dad, Tom Aageson, Co-Founder, Global Center for Cultural Entrepreneurship

Have Fun - Do Good

Towards that vision, they are creating a networked community of cultural entrepreneurs, cultural investors, and cultural entrepreneurship educators. For example, I'd seen potters in Peru whose tradition was to make clay water jars for their community. Of course, you know that my blog is called, "Have Fun Do Good."

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GOOD Magazine

Have Fun - Do Good

While on the plane to and from Peru I had A LOT of time to read. I read my new issue of Ode , With All Our Strength by Anne Brodsky, and a new magazine, GOOD. I'd been looking forward to GOOD for a while after Green LA Girl wrote about it, and after talking to Christine Soto at the GOOD Magazine booth at the Craigslist Foundation Boot Camp.

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Empowering Women Citizen Journalists: An Interview with Cristi Hegranes

Have Fun - Do Good

So often, government control, or just lack of access to information and media, prevents people from really being able to be educated and informed about serious issues that are going on around them. We are also in discussions in Peru, in Burkina Faso, and in Botswana as well. She had four children.

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Tools to End Poverty: An Interview with Martin Fisher of KickStart

Have Fun - Do Good

The first thing we recognize is that poor people everywhere are really not that different than us, in that they live in a cash economy, and just like us, if they have a way to make money they can access education, clean water, health care, and all of those other things that we think about as being so important. You're not going to Peru."