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Gift the Gift of Charity: Make A Contribution to any of these Fabulous Organizations

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. Can't get much more pertinent for holiday hope than the gift of human beings caring for one another!

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Have Fun Do Good Link Love: Echoing Green, Jobs for Change, Julia Cameron and 29 Gifts

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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! If you missed my friend Cami Walker of 29 Gifts on the Today Show , you can watch it online.

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Women Who Tech Telesummit: May 12, 2009

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Location: global (telephone and web). Women are underrepresented : some of the most gifted folks in technology are women yet they are rarely quoted as experts by the mainstream media and blogs. Details: Date: May 12, 2009. Panels: See the list of panel sessions here. Register: Registration is not yet open. Why Women Who Tech?

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Join the 29-Day Giving Challenge: Change Lives One Gift at a Time

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Your 29 gifts can be anything, "material objects, money, your time, smiles or kind thoughts." I signed up for the Challenge today and decided to celebrate Day 1 by donating to the BlogHers Act' "Donate Now to Save Women's Lives" campaign on Global Giving. As of this writing, 128 people have joined.

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Be Sweet: Creative Products with a Conscience & More Do-Good Gifts

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Last week I posted about the online fair trade store, Global Girlfriend , here and on BlogHer , and asked readers to post other ideas for do-good gifts. One reader suggested the Amber Chand Collection that features gifts by craftswomen who live in regions of conflict and post-conflict. holiday shopping knitting

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How do networks sustain themselves (financially)?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This is a group of women who have been working/playing together to explore how technology can support the World Cafe global community. We talked a lot about gift economies, storytelling, and some web2.0 The session I did at Blogher was about tools for community fundraising (Marnie Webb set up a wiki with notes and links).

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Thank you Darlene and Mata!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Is this an example of the virtual gift economy? Mata, over at Blogher, wrote a terrific post called " Three Ways you can simply change the world for the better. Donate $10 or more to our cause through Global Giving now ! OMG, I can't believe this generosity. Thank you so much! Call To Action. Are you a blogger?

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