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How Faith-Based Hope Endeavors Effectively Fights the AIDS Epidemic and Changes Lives in the U.S. and Africa

Tech Soup

Two 14-year-old girls, one in the US and one in Malawi, had their lives changed when they joined forces to fight the AIDs epidemic in Africa. This is the story of how a Michigan faith based organization called Hope Endeavors leads significant humanitarian work from a home office. A Story of Two Girls. That is how we found Darcy.

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Twitter’s Claire Williams Shares Why Literacy Is Her Cause

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

As I reflect on what Literacy Day means, I can’t help thinking about the origins of my interest in Room to Read as an organization, and one particularly sticky literacy-for-development related issue that came up during that season of my life. The story of what happened after that trip has been told in other publications.

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Wisdom 2.0: Balance in A Hyper Connected World

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The conference was created by Soren Gordhamer in 2010, author of the book, Wisdom 2.0. I attended the first conference in May, 2010 was filled with gratitude to Soren for the amazing experience and opportunity to reflect life and balance in age of social networks. I use pen and a note book to take notes! The Wisdom 2.0

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Empowering Young Children through Philanthropy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

On the first page of the 300 page manual in your hand, it was written, Throughout history, since the Egyptian Book of the Dead 6,000 years ago, people have believed that helping others was a key to happiness and good works.’. These fundamental values help children develop their philanthropic characters in life. Lead by Actions.

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Book Review - Unbowed by Wangari Maathai

Have Fun - Do Good

Not a very peaceful life for a Nobel Peace Prize winner. Her new memoir, Unbowed , is the kind of book that you put down every 50 pages and say to whomever is listening, "You're not going to believe what happened next." Maathai closes her book by saying, I am one of the lucky ones who lived to see a new beginning for my country.

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5 Ways Nonprofits Can Use Rewards-Based Crowdfunding

NonProfit Hub

Nowadays, some people say they donate in order to make an impact in somebody’s life. Creating a story for rewards will describe how each wish item can help your cause and make a difference in someone’s life. For example, $10 equals 1 book for a school, or $5 feeds a starving kid in Eastern Africa for a day.

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5 Games Supporting Nonprofits’s Missions, from Low-Tech to High-Tech

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

million players’ in-game actions into real-world donations totaling $500,000, providing 250,000 books and $198,600 for fistula surgeries. Nick and Sheryl have continued their reporting on human rights violations around the globe in their new nonfiction book and documentary series, A Path Appears. ” Senate Immersion Module.

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