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Case Study: How One Organization Raised over $500K through Millennials

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LiNK (Liberty in North Korea). is a human rights organization that physically rescues North Korean refugees and helps resettle them in South Korea or the United States so they can avoid being forcibly repatriated back to North Korea, where they can face harsh punishments as a result of illegally immigrating.

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[Opinion] Millennials and the Fight Against Hate

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Tensions with North Korea. And, the most beautiful aspect of millennial activism is that they are not only directly engaged with causes and social issues; they are also looking to and working within institutions to create change by affecting policy in support or in opposition of those causes and social issues.

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5 Incredible Campaigns And What You Can Learn From Them

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With organizations like Knight Foundation, Upworthy, Baltimore Corps, Levi Strauss Foundation, KIND Snacks, National Geographic and more, we had the privilege of hearing from the best and the brightest on how to activate people for good. Cause for Design is a summit on how to activate people for good through design. Baltimore Corps. ,

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The Future of Fundraising Is Peer-to-Peer

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In the past, fundraising was an activity based in part on the willingness of fundraisers to ask for support from friends, family, and deep-pocketed individuals with whom they had a personal connection. Liberty in North Korea. , or LiNK, an organization based in California that works to rescue and resettle North Korean refugees.

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Crowdsourcing Skills for Human Rights via Movements.org

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" Ben-Horin, like many others, feels that online petitioning services like Change.org have a place in political organizing, but they also are conducive to "slacktivism" (slacker activism) in which someone can say, "I've signed a petition, now I've done my bit."

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Mr. Jim Goes to Washington (and New York, and Nairobi, and Seoul, and Kampala, and Boston…)

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Met with current and prospective individual donors as part of my donor cultivation and stewardship efforts, by thanking current donors and explaining what we’ve accomplished with their support, and sharing our activities with prospective donors in the hopes of getting them to support Benetech.

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