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OCTOBER 22, 2008

-Cami Walker, Founder, 29 Day Giving Challenge The 29 Day Giving Challenge is a global giving movement where participants give away one thing each day for 29 days. I wrote about my experience with the Giving Challenge last spring in the post, 29 Day Giving Challenge Takeaway: Compassion is Hardest to Give.

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MAY 3, 2012

All of these benefits energize me and (for all of it’s challenges) I feel privileged to live with technology and in the Connected Age. Access to new and diverse individuals. The opportunity to create and be creative with little cost. Instant connection to unlimited knowledge and ideas!

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OCTOBER 30, 2009

29 Gifts: How a Month of Giving Can Change Your Life Filling the Well: Giving to Yourself Join My Village: Ladies Home Journal Do Good Challenge Make Someone's Day: Write a Letter Whew! 10 Tips for an Effective Nonprofit or Do-Good Facebook Fan Page by Beth Kanter on BlogHer. It's been a been a busy few weeks!

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APRIL 17, 2009

Although our world still has tremendous challenges, I think more people, especially young people, realize the importance of being engaged in their communities on a local, national or global level. Clinton Global Initiative -- Q&A with Maya Ajmera, Global Fund for Children by Mitch Nauffts on PhilanTopic.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2006

I have a lot of tree-planters to thank for the fruit I have eaten this year: my husband for being the best hubs ever , my parents for a lifetime of love, my friends for inspiring me, BlogHer and NetSquared for helping me make a living doing something I love (blogging!),

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DECEMBER 9, 2007

Photo by Life in Africa For this week's BlogHer Holiday Guide post, I needed to come up with a list of nonprofit organizations or causes that BlogHer readers may consider making a donation to as part of their year-end giving. The GRO Foundation: Global Relief Outreach. Check out their MySpace page. Can't decide? Details here.

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JULY 2, 2008

Challenge for the rest of 2008: I'm feeling a bit discouraged about what feels like a lack of progress in the situation. Challenge for rest of 2008: I only have 6 more interviews for 2008. Challenge for 2008: I've gotten paper bags a few times because otherwise we don't have anything to put our recycling in (ironic).

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FEBRUARY 18, 2008

This discussion will center around the stories, strategies, triumphs and challenges of innovative non profits with a passion for change and the cajones to rock it out online. We connected through the "cambodia" tag on flickr because I was tracking it for Global Voices back in 2005.

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AUGUST 10, 2007

Phillip Smith has a thoughtful post called " Social tech meets the Social Innovation Generation " The Nonprofit Eye blog writes about leadership challenges in the nonprofit sector. Here's a roundup of all the live blog posts from the recent BlogHer conference neatly organized by session. " What do you think?

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AUGUST 23, 2006

Global Warming. That’s why I started interviewing women (and men) for the Big Vision Podcast , and my Solutionary Women series on BlogHer who get up in the morning and have a big vision for a better world as their alarm clock. Election Fraud. Genetically-Modified Food. Believe that you can make a difference.

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APRIL 13, 2008

Donna Callejon with kids in village in Guatemala - the houses, latrines, etc are being built partly with Global Giving support. Tell me about you - how did you end up working in global philanthropy? I met Dennis Whittle, Global Giving's co-founder, at a social entrepreneurship conference in Geneva.

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MARCH 13, 2009

In 2009, our challenge becomes how to harness these tools for in order to reopen the policy-making process. Panelists: Ken Fisher, Editor-in-Chief , Ars Technica, Alexis Ohanian, Product Manager of Awesome , reddit.com, Drew Curtis, The Member , Fark.com, and Erin Kotecki Vest, BlogHer 10. Whitehouse.gov 2.0:

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JUNE 19, 2009

After meeting her at the Global Engagement Summer last spring, I knew I wanted to grab her for an interview before she became too famous. What have been the challenges of using that process? What's the challenge of using that process ? What are the benefits of that, and the challenges of that? What's the dark side?

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MAY 10, 2006

The podcast isn't up yet, but here is a partially modified transcription of our conversation which you can also read along with profiles of other Solutionary Women on Blogher : What is SOUL? And what’s the most challenging thing about your work? And what’s the most challenging thing about your work?

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APRIL 24, 2007

At the heart of Fair Trade is the notion of direct trade, kind of like a farmer's market gone global. BB: What are the challenges of your work? So our response to that challenge is really to reach out through grassroots groups, through the media and through the Internet to try and spread the word in a more grassroots approach.

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AUGUST 5, 2007

I want to thank Carnet Williams and ChipIn for the challenge match! It's important to have a challenge grant or contest or something that gives both urgency and some confidence that others believe in your cause. The good folks at ChipIn , the personal fundraising widget that I used for this campaign, put forth a challenge.

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MAY 11, 2009

They are generally early adopters of new technologies and consider themselves to be global people. Yet working with the cloud will present organizational challenges of an unprecedented order. I think it was 2006 when the entire room of 1400 bloggers burst into spontaneous singing of this song at BlogHer.

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JUNE 7, 2006

Last month I wrote a short post for Blogher, Roadies for a Cause , about a nonprofit called Lokahi Outreach , that partners with organizations like the ONE campaign and Oxfam to help them do grassroots campaigning on the road. What is the biggest challenge of your work? And that process of learning and growing needs to be constant.

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JUNE 30, 2007

In 1995, I'm giving you my life story; I took a class called Challenging White Supremacy. laughter] Working with your brother is pretty challenging. When Sophia contacted me and asked if I would talk here, my first thought was, "You know, I could talk here, but I just know so many amazing women who have stories that I want to share."

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