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10 Years of PeaceTalks: What Does Peace Mean to You?

Saleforce Nonprofit

Why does nobody save the children? Why does nobody hear the voices when all the children are yelling and crying and running from bombs?’ Known for her efforts to advance women’s rights in Afghanistan, Zarifa experienced an untenable career in politics. I asked my mom ‘Mom, why does nobody hear us?

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Research Friday: Attention Philanthropy: The Good, the Bad, and the Road Ahead

ASU Lodestar Center

Since TOMS launched in 2006, over 1,000,000 pairs of shoes have been given to children in more than 20 countries. Greg Mortensen, co-founder and executive director of the nonprofit Central Asia Institute (CAI), is a genius in AP. Yet attention can cut both ways, as the Greg Mortenson controversy illustrates.

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Break the Bias: Changing the Game for Girls & Women

Saleforce Nonprofit

The takeover by the Taliban in Afghanistan earlier this year instantly sent the future of girls and women in that country into chaos. GRLS Initiative Director at Women Win. . Nicole Matuska is the GRLS Director at Women Win. Credit: GOLEES. Fundacion GOLEES is based in Costa Rica and works with girls and women ages 10-60.

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Interview with Zainab Salbi, Founder of Women for Women International

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We work in countries like Congo, Rwanda, Sudan, Iraq, Afghanistan, Bosnia, Kosovo, among others. Our country director in Rwanda was a refugee all her life. Our country director in Bosnia was a survivor of the four-year siege of Sarajevo. The country director in Kosovo was a refugee during the war in Kosovo, etc.

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Support Women Survivors of War with $27/month

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If not director of a school, I would like to be someone of importance, someone of value again.'"--Honorata (pictured left) about her experience with Women for Women International. There she found her five children who had survived by the kindness of strangers. Reunited, she began to rebuild their life."

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Must Hear Speech from Barack Obama and the Power of Podcasting

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There is something powerful about hearing Barack Obama's voice or the children's voices from the UNICEF podcasts or Nelson Mandela's voice from the recent ONE campaign podcast , inside your head. I am not the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Secretary of State, or the Director of National Intelligence.

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