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Good Magazine Wants You To Do Good!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

826 National is a family of seven nonprofit organizations dedicated to helping students, ages 6-18, with expository and creative writing. Malaria No More engages individuals, organizations, and corporations in the private sector to provide life-saving bed nets and other critical interventions to families in need. the rest of the world.

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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. I have two favorites: The Sharing Foundation which supports children in Cambodia and Creative Commons.

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What's Your Moment of Obligation?

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Moments of obligation are described as: "At certain moments in your life, you may find yourself pulled toward a path leading to work that will benefit others. For the past ten years, I had focused my personal and professional life on the ultimate importance of creative expression, but something didn't feel right.

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Empowering Refugees: Interview with Kjerstin Erickson of FORGE

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It's really designed to make sure that all solutions are both emerging from the local community and tailored to the community's needs, and are developing the leadership skills of the most promising and emerging leaders at the same time. We would bring students. It has been going on my whole life. How has that changed?

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7 Ways to Have Fun and Do Good

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Johns — my North Portland, Oregon, neighborhood — I've been working this year on a new, all-volunteer mentoring program for local teen parents. - Elisa Camahort Page, BlogHer It is my absolute honor to help people find pieces of peace within, while outwardly expressing this life process though dance with our bodies.

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Fair Trade Certified: An Interview with Paul Rice of TransFair USA

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BB: Can you share a story of how a family's life has been changed for the better by Fair Trade? Of course, because their farms are small and because historically they've gotten a really low price from the local coffee buyers, called coyotes in Latin America, these farmers are all poor.

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Small Groups Can Change the World: An Interview with Marianne Manilov of The Engage Network

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Last week, after the election, BlogHer co-founder Lisa Stone, asked What Will You Do To Change America? You hear them speak, or you read their book, or you listen to your podcast, and then you generally write to that person, or you go up to them, rush them at the end of a speech and say, "I'm a student, I want to get involved."

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