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Ice Bucket Challenge: Can Other Nonprofits Reproduce It?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

One has to step back and marvel at the most successful networked fundraising campaigns in the history of social or crowd fundraising. Nonprofit insiders are watching and debating how ALS will use the money and the donor retention strategy. And, of course the valid concern of wasting water in a drought. The numbers speak for themselves.

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What Are Your 2008 Activist Resolutions?

Have Fun - Do Good

Her resolutions include eating local organic food, teaching her students about healthier eating options, and volunteering at a community garden. It was probably one of the best books I've read and definitely helped me to better understand the issue, and America's policies and history around it. What are your 2008 Activist Resolutions?

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Women of Color Resource Center: An Interview with Anisha Desai

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A disproportionate amount of women veterans are women of color, and many of them have just recently returned from Iraq or Afghanistan and are looking to get involved with the peace moment, and with their own political development, but also with their own healing, and what it means to heal after going through the incredible trauma of war.

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How-to: Let Go and Start Blogging

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Lawrence of Cyberia frequently reveals "hidden" stories of Palestinian and Israeli history that counters misinformation and myths in US major media and government policy. He noted that when he turned against the Iraq War he lost two-thirds of his readers, especially after admitting mistakes about his position on the war.

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Solutionary Women: Alli Chagi-Starr, Ilyse Hogue, Melinda Kramer and Reem Rahim

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We're ignorant and don't understand the history of these oppressions and how they undermine our work as activists, and as allies, and undermines our solidarity with each other. And because for centuries and centuries and centuries, men have written history, we don't even know about all of the women changemakers out there.

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Alli Chagi-Starr, Art in Action/Ella Baker Center, Podcast Interview Transcription

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I think mentorship and respecting the people who come before, and really seeing the history, that we're standing on the shoulders of so many great people who were faced with such huge obstacles. He's an ex-Marine, has two sons in Iraq, is a arch Republican and right winger. It might be teaching. So it might be researching.

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The Global Fund for Women: An Interview with Kavita Ramdas

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If you compare that to the budgets that we spend in just one day on fighting a war in Iraq, or the cost of an F16 fighter jet, you get some sense of how inordinately skewed those are. It is a good thing we are doing this in Women's History Month. It hasn't happened in Latin America's history.

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