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How can nonprofit leaders enact effective practices to achieve the promise of social equity?

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Psychic wages” are not providing incentives to offset student loan debt, housing prices, and health insurance. He is a Chicago-born Oregonian, who moved to Eugene after living abroad in Sudan. Wage inequity is effectively failing to retain talented and young professionals that enter the sector.

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Sudan Activist Conference Call: What You Can Do to Make a Difference in Darfur

Have Fun - Do Good

In an effort to understand why the violence there is still happening, and what I can do to help, I've called in for two of the monthly conference calls for Sudan Activists produced by ENOUGH , the Genocide Intervention Network , STAND: A Student Anti-Genocide Coalition , and the Save Darfur Coalition.

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Weekly Member Round Up: New and Old Technology for Good!

NTEN

The Educational Development Center is helping nearly 150,000 students in Sudan receive a better education, using a relatively old technology: the radio. After providing more than 600 schools with solar-paneled radios, students are able to tune into courses on subjects such as math and language.

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What Are Your 2009 Have Fun Do Good Resolutions?

Have Fun - Do Good

In that spirit, I'm making only three 2009 Have Fun Do Good Resolutions Write each month to the woman from Sudan who I am sponsoring through Women for Women International. Adult volunteers read once a week, one-on-one with two students for 30 minutes each. Clearly, I need to do less. What are your Have Fun Do Good resolutions?

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Empowering Refugees: Interview with Kjerstin Erickson of FORGE

Have Fun - Do Good

One of those individuals is Paul Ohisa, and he's a refugee from Sudan. His dream was to go back to Sudan, and to contribute and help rebuild. And he's come up with his plan, his social entrepreneurship plan, to bring attention to the refugee plight and also to contribute to rebuilding in Sudan. We would bring students.

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Peace Games & International Efforts

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

College students have led the fight on issues. We announced a contest to create a game to address issue in Sudan. We're going to give out 10 $25K grants - one game in particular - University of Denver students created a game called Squeezed. We decided to follow our artists and engage the audience on this issues.

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How They Did It: LWB Wins Facebook Causes Giving Challenge - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

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Sometimes, this even included an army of college students going door-to-door, ICU nurses convincing hospital staff to join, businessmen calling meetings to let their employees know about the contest, and other offline work. So, if you only have a few minutes, here are the5 top takeaways: 1. Oh the hours!! Lastly, you can shamelessly plug LWB.

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