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Equitable and Inclusive Messaging: Retaining Donors in a New Age of Storytelling

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According to a guideline published by M+R, a useful quick test for your own messaging is to simply answer the question: If the subject of this story were to read it, how would they feel? Consider lived experience and amplify community voice. The challenges of strength-based messaging Finding the balance in your story.

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The Journey of the Spiritual Activist: An Interview with Marisa Handler

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It was the process of that questioning, and not necessarily finding the answers that struck me as right, and then becoming more active as I grew older. India is next to Pakistan, which is right next to Afghanistan, and the US had just gone to war in Afghanistan. Clashing visions of who is chosen and who is not.

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Women of Color Resource Center: An Interview with Anisha Desai

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AD: I think it is important to start by saying that the Women of Color Resource Center came out of a lot of political thinking and activism of the late '60s and '70s, when women of color really felt that it was important that their voices be heard in a movement that was largely dominated by men, and also white women and white allies.

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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. None of us can answer that question fully until we find ourselves in that situation. You feel close to them and their cause.

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The Global Fund for Women: An Interview with Kavita Ramdas

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We have been seeing an increased attention that women's rights groups have been bringing to this whole question of globalization and migration, and how women workers are being affected by this. She made it almost impossible for me not to look at those questions. Somehow that's never the question I get asked.

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