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Empowering Refugees: Interview with Kjerstin Erickson of FORGE

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He ran into Congo. He was there for about a month, and then war in Congo was breaking out. 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. He was coming back to his village, and he found that his village was in flames.

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Online Fundraising Site: How To Create A High-Performing Fundraising Website

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Also, our collective attention span is evolving. In order to maximize a short attention span, it makes sense to marry visual and written content. Source: Casa Congo, School for Conservation). Consistent, relevant content is key to keeping your campaign top of mind for donors. Visual storytelling does exactly that.

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An Amazing NpTech Social Media Link Buffet: Take Your Pick!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Mashable has dubbed it one of the best places to watch great minds in action. Brian talks about how those of us active in the real-time Web experience an evaporation of attention span and our ability to digest and respond to everything that moves us. It's called Why Congo Matters. blog here and here.

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Bringing Women a Global Voice: Jensine Larsen, World Pulse

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A lot of attention on team, it's probably the hardest thing because you have to keep getting out of your own way. And mind you, they weren't all women who wanted to be journalists. We so often are willing to give and give and give, and our own bodies or our own state of mind is the last thing. So, we started this program.

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Solutionary Women: Heddy Nam

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That’s when they decided that youth, who are idealistic, energetic and open-minded, would be the engine to peacebuilding to ensure that genocide does not go unchallenged. Since then, the network has grown to include hundreds of members residing in the UK, Rwanda, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Burundi, China, and Canada.

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The Global Fund for Women: An Interview with Kavita Ramdas

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You can see the ripples kind of spreading out, but you don't know whether one ripple caused a tadpole to swim a different direction, you don't know whether a bird flew away because the ripples made it change its mind, you don't know whether a flower that might not have grown in that place now is growing in that place.

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