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5 Unique Ways to Thank Recurring Donors

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Haymakers for Hope’s mission is to give everyday people the chance to fight back against cancer by training for, and competing in charity boxing events to raise money and awareness. Offer incentives that align with your mission and feel authentic to your organization. . Operation Broken Silence: The Renewal.

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Vote for the First Anti-Genocide Hotline on Reddit

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In the case of the LA Times article, which was about the need for divestment from Sudan, we had our members specifically email the article to a vice-president at Fidelity, which has a lot of investments in Sudan-linked business firms.

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From a Millennial: Nobody Wants to Hear Your Stories. We Want to See Them.

Connection Cafe

How do we raise awareness about our unique stories to a generation of naturally attention-deficit individuals? Having spent several months in Southern Sudan, I know the struggles that people have to find clean drinking water. But, the fact is, our minds are a byproduct of our instantaneous information culture. Rise above the noise.

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Do What You Can: National Week of Action for Darfur April 6-13

Have Fun - Do Good

April 6-13, 2008 human rights groups like Genocide Intervention Network , STAND , Amnesty International , and Save Darfur are using the Global Week for Darfur to raise awareness about the continuing violence and need for action. The week provides a number of ways for you to do what you can.

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Shouldn’t the Word Phone Be Removed from Mobile? The Use of the Mobile by Nonprofits for Development

Tech Soup

For those nonprofits working on health issues - In Uganda the Electronic Mobile Open-source Comprehensive Health Application (eMOCHA) has been developed by the Johns Hopkins Center for Clinical Global Health Education and it enables health workers to build HIV awareness and provide prevention information in rural areas. increase in a.

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Mobilizing Donors and Activists in an Overwhelmed World

Have Fun - Do Good

The Genocide Intervention Network has a good list of 10 Ways You Can Take Action Today including writing to elected officials, divesting from Sudan, holding an awareness raising event, and creating a video for 24 Hours for Darfur. But why aren't more people doing these things?

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What Can I Do About Genocide? An Interview with Janessa Goldbeck

Have Fun - Do Good

Some of the programs that we have currently running are the Sudan Divestment Task Force , which is leading up the campaign to divest state pensions from companies doing business in Sudan on a recently passed Federal legislation to ban future state contracts. His campaign was successful. It is cool to see that happening.

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